New Iraqi army recruits old Saddam military

The new Iraqi army will start recruiting former senior officers from Saddam Hussein’s military and today also lifted a ban on members of Saddam’s disbanded Baath party from teaching in schools.

New Iraqi army recruits old Saddam military

The new Iraqi army will start recruiting former senior officers from Saddam Hussein’s military and today also lifted a ban on members of Saddam’s disbanded Baath party from teaching in schools.

The announcement by the US administrator Paul Bremer in Baghdad represented an admission of mistakes in a centrepiece of Washington’s policy in Iraq after Saddam’s fall – the dissolution of the Baath Party and the 350,000 member military, which were key tools of repression by the former regime.

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