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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

'Iraq rounds up Baathists ahead of US forces pullout'

from arabnews.......



" Iraq has arrested at least 240 former members of Saddam Hussein’s banned Baath Party and ex-military officers over what some senior officials described as a plot to seize power after US troops withdraw at year’s end.
While several officials characterised the round-up which began this week as the foiling of a specific plot, others said it was a precautionary measure before the US withdrawal, nearly nine years after the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam"............READ MORE

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