Thursday, December 18, 2008

they love their "freedom"

Up to 25 Iraqis accused in Saddam party plot

BAGHDAD – More than 20 employees of Iraq's Ministry of the Interior have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, government officials said Thursday.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told reporters that 23 people had been arrested over the past five days in a Baath Party plot but he dismissed suggestions they were planning a coup.

Another security official put the figure at 25 and said a brigadier general in the traffic police was the highest-ranking figure. Most are low-level ministry employees, he said.


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Sure, this is a small group, but this doesn't sound like people who are thrilled with the American intervention in their lives.