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Baathist

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Ba·ath·ist also Ba'ath·ist  (bää-thst)
n.
A member of a pan-Arab socialist political party active principally in Syria and Iraq.

[After the Ba'ath Party, from Arabic ba', revival, from ba'ata, to send, evoke, awaken.]

Baath·ism n.


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Yet it would still be wrong to confuse a fellow citizen's twisted passions with the murderous hatred of al Qaeda jihadists and Baathist insurgents.
Nor is it surprising that, rather than configuring his military for foreign aggression, its "main mission was to ensure the internal security of the Baathist dictatorship," and was concerned "with everything except fighting wars.
They weren't all that interested in abuses committed by Saddam (Hussein) or by rogue terrorists and Baathists against Iraqis or by Sunni and Shia militias against each other.
 
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