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The monarchy was deposed. nationalists took over. they overthrew the iraqi monarchy. that didnt last, either. about five years after they killed the king and the military took over, the military was overthrown, as well, or at least the faction of them that had been in charge. by then it was 1963, february 1963 and the group that took over iraq then and ruled it for 40 years thereafter, that was the bath party. we think of saddam hussein as the personification of the bath party. he, in fact, took...

Bath party, or whats left of syria that it still rules, and basically expressing solidarity for the syrian presidents fight against what north korea describes as imperialism. so, no question there about where north koreas sentiments lie when it comes to syrias civil war there thats gone on for some six years. now, the question about how north korea would interpret the attack here on syria, youve got to do a calculation about what could happen if the u.s. was to conduct a similar attack in north ...

Fear it or dislike it, but for whatever reason, theyve been fighting for a long time. so forget about what you wish would happen. >> what is likely going to happen in syria? >> i think it is possible, you know, we have to try first of all to secure and assure those min orts and peaceful minorities of sunnis that there is a viable alternative when those people were looking west at the united states and western countries and this is a democracy they wanted because they know very well that this is ...

Weary of using the word "state" because you do the propaganda for them, but functions like a quasi state, and they exert the population control that, frankly, you dont see outside of, you know, authoritarian regimes that dominated the middle east since the end of world war ii. hussein comes to mind, and, again, heres where their influence in the iraqi and military intelligence services and republic of fear, security apparatus constructed by the bath party over decades informs how isis rules. >> ...

The military side are people from that army. >> who approved the order? for years members of the bush administration pointed fingers at each other but for the first time paul bremer gave me a clear answer to the question. why have they put the blame on you? >> not the president. >> not the president but -- >> no, the president hasnt. >> he approved? >> yes. >> george bush has never taken clear responsibility but bremer says the idea to fire bath party members came from this man, doug fieth was a...

They have a background in the bath party or in the saddam hussein regime. military officials, intelligence operatives. they have a very codified system. any works of art, preislamic sculpture, they consider to be worship object. gold coins, these things can be sold for money. i think theres also pragmatic value here. they apparently raised the temple in hat ra. how do you smuggle the temple out of iraq to make a fortune. you just smash it. >> now to russia where authorities formally charged two ...

The old man says he doesnt know, says i will teach you. after the video surfaced they asked that leader in aleppo to step down recognizing what a propaganda failure was. d ath theyh th how did ath th announce the firing? via tweet. i spoke with richard engel in baghdad and i started by asking him if isis had been well received in the areas they conquered. >> reporter: generally not. mostly were seeing refugees leaving the area they conquered. according to the u.n., theres about 400,000 refugees ...

Back isis before other sunni militia who have been sitting on the fence, who reject the ideology of isis, start thinking they look like they might win and therefore need to throw their lot in and become part of a wider sunni revolution against the shia dominated government of nuri al maliki. he, of course, is also under pressure to try to throw his arm around sunni groups and bring them into the government to prevent just that revolution, but ultimately, the real question is why is it that his a...

Ominous thing to say when this is a group that cuts peoples heads off to settle scores. the latest intelligence weve been receiving from sources that are familiar with the movement, some inside the movement, that they are probably waiting, accumulating some of their weapons, accumulating in numbers, they want to get military advice from former bath party officials and then well try and assault the city. but it might not be like a leningrad style fighting, baghdad is very divided and half of the ...

Body. in other words, the bath party, maybe sure they are not exexcluded from some sort of coalition government that includes the opposition and a good section of those who have been in power for a long time. i think thats where the international community is beginning to think there may be an outcome thats viable because the idea of the whole regime leaving as we saw in iraq, isnt probably very practical at the moment given both the realities on the ground and what we also have in iraq, when yo...