Baath Party –Syria– desperate to join Maliki’s government

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Sappho

The best descrip­tion for this weird “national rec­on­cil­i­a­tion” con­fer­ence is reported on Al-Akhbar :

It seems that the con­cept “national rec­on­cil­i­a­tion” is very unique accord­ing to Al-Maliki, and his gov­ern­ment, it can be sum­ma­rized as the following:

- Not to invite the largest Sunni party Al-Tawafiq “Iraqi Accord Front”.

- Close all the par­tic­i­pa­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties of the Baath Social­ist Party.

- Announc­ing the exe­cu­tion of Saddam’s assis­tants Sul­tan Hashim Ahmed, Ali Has­san al-Majid «chem­i­cal» and Has­san Al-Tikriti in “one decision”.

Although they are already part of the gov­ern­ment, remark­ably, the Iraqi gov­ern­ment saw that the main par­tic­i­pants “out­side the polit­i­cal process” are the lead­ers of the “Awak­en­ing Councils”.

Elaph reported: The Baáth Party –Syria wing– spokesman Mah­moud Al-Sheik told Elaph that his Party [wing] don’t mind join­ing the polit­i­cal process and attend the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion con­fer­ence if the wing pre­sented in the con­sti­tu­tion in a way that sep­a­rates it from the for­mer Baáth party led by Sad­dam Hussein.

We received invi­ta­tion for the cur­rent con­fer­ence as indi­vid­u­als but not as a party, that is the rea­son why we didn’t par­tic­i­pated, we fought against the for­mer Ba’ath Party and we joined the meet­ings with the Iraqi oppo­si­tions before the war but we dis­agreed with them about the for­eign intervantion.

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3 Responses to Baath Party –Syria– desperate to join Maliki’s government

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  2. Alison says:
    March 20, 2008 at 11:59

    The state­ment of the spokesman of the rene­gade Syr­ian or You­nis ‘wing’ reported by Elaph con­firms what I have said about these mis­chief mak­ers on many pre­vi­ous occa­sions: “We fought against the for­mer Ba’ath Party and we joined the meet­ings with the Iraqi oppo­si­tions before the war.” Instead of USURPING — and thereby dis­hon­our­ing — the name of the Arab Ba’ath Social­ist Party at the behest of the CIA and Syr­ian intel­li­gence, these sabo­teurs ought to found a party of their own and give it a new name.

  3. paola pisi says:
    March 20, 2008 at 18:54

    Mah­moud al-Sheikh Radhi and his so-called “Baath party” have absolutely noth­ing to do with the Iraqi Baath party. Mah­moud al-Sheikh Radhi is a Sad­dam opposer, and he had links to to the Dawa party and the SCIRI even before the war: in 2001 he signed a revolt­ing state­ment together with Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Hamed al-Bayati ( the Lon­don rep­re­sen­ta­tive for SCIRI) and other thugs
    http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:ntWmLOvaXn4J:www.iraqcp.org/framse1/406opp.htm+Mahmoud+al-Sheikh+Radhi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
    (i posted the cache, because the link isn’t working).

    Mah­moud al-Sheikh Radhi, Ibrahim al-Jaafari and their friends called for “pros­e­cut­ing the dic­ta­tor Sad­dam Hus­sein and his cronies, putting them on trial before an inter­na­tional tri­bunal for crimes against human­ity and war crimes which they have committed.”

    In April 2001 Mah­moud al-Sheikh Radhi signed that shame­ful state­ment on the behalf of the “Arab Baath Social­ist Party — Iraq region com­mand”. If such a thing as this phony “Arab Baath Social­ist Party — Iraq region com­mand” does indeed exist, it is only a small insignif­i­cant group founded in Syria dur­ing the Saddam’s gov­ern­ment and linked to the col­lab­o­ra­tionist Iraqi Com­mu­nist Party. Mah­moud al-Sheikh Radhi’s party (if it does exist) is even dif­fer­ent from You­nis’ “wing”: it is only a bunch of opposers to Sad­dam and usurped and besmirched the Baath party’s name. And prob­a­bly it was (and is) on Syria’s pay­roll (and maybe on Iran’s and/or CIA’s ones too).

    By the way, i’ve just posted a state­ment by the true Iraqi Baath party:
    http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m42220&hd=&size=1&l=e