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...Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each of Iraq's neighbors, with the exception of Iran, believes that some version of this proposal is the best immediate course of action...
...early this year, the secret task force's luck began to change. Tips came in from Iraqi insurgents, former Baath Party members loyal to Saddam, some of whom objected to al-Zarqawi's viciousness and attacks against Shi'ites. U.S. officials say they also received valuable assistance from the government of Jordan, al-Zarqawi's home country. A Jordanian security official tells TIME that one month after the November 2005 suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, which killed 60 people, Jordanian King Abdullah II ordered his intelligence officials to set up a new security branch, the Knights...
...When Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother and former spy chief, was forcibly removed from the room last week after calling the court a "child of adultery," Saddam and the entire defense team stormed out in protest. The trial, which is held in the hulking former Baath Party headquarters inside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, will resume Feb. 13, but the defendants may not appear in person. Instead they will be able to watch proceedings on closed-circuit television. If Saddam wants to question witnesses, which is allowed under Iraqi law, he can pass written queries...
Another local Baath Party official, Ali Dayim Ali allegedly assisted in the Dujail roundup and interrogations that led to 46 deaths
...senior Baath Party official, Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid is believed responsible for the arrests of as many as 687 Shi'ites in Dujail...