Draft law to allow Saddam's backers to return to jobs

A day after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, the Shiite-dominated government offered a major concession to his Sunni backers that could see thousands of members of the ousted dictator's Baath party reinstated in their jobs.

With a tight curfew holding down violence after Saddam’s guilty verdict and death sentence, the government yesterday reached out to disaffected Sunnis in the hope of enticing them away from the insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis and is responsible for the vast majority of US casualties.