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Article: De-Ba'thification.(Baath Party and legal reform)
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Ever since the US purged members of the Ba'th Party from the government soon after the invasion in 2003, it has been trying to reform the policy. Some changes were made in 2004, bringing back teachers and people with technical expertise, but the hope has been that a broader plan to rehire low- to mid-level Ba'thists would drain the Sunni-led insurgency of support.
The latest de-Ba'thification drive began this spring with the much-praised Reconciliation and Accountability Law, a proposal backed by Zalmay Khalilzad, who was the US ambassador to Baghdad until April. This decreed that all former Ba'thists who had been in government could collect their pensions. It ...