Baath Party facts

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There's video of Saddam Hussein becoming dictator of Iraq in 1979 at a Baath party leadership meeting, where he named some members as traitors -- and then ordered the rest to go outside and execute them

When Saddam took power he had the general secretary of the Baath party confess to a plot and name some of his party rivals as co-conspirators who were led out of the room. Those remaining in the room were given rifles and told to execute the conspirators.

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