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Associated PressShiite Cleric Opposes Baathists' ReturnBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
The Associated Press
Sunday, April 1, 2007; 10:49 PM
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's top Shiite cleric opposes a draft law that would allow former
members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party to resume government positions,
the head of the committee dealing with the Baathists said Sunday.
Ahmed Chalabi met with Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani on Sunday in the Shiite holy
city of Najaf to discuss the draft law that would allow thousands of former Baath
Party members to regain their jobs or grant them pensions if they are denied jobs
they once held in the government or military.
-snip-Chalabi, who runs the Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification, later met
three other senior Shiite clerics.
"The grand ayatollahs said it is dangerous for the criminals to return to leading
posts in the state," he said.
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