Every image of Mr Hussein and the Baath Party has been removed from all 563 revised texts.
On July 16, 1979, General Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, 65, stepped (or was pushed) down from the Baath Party presidency.
The Iraqi Parliament passed a law allowing former low-level members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to hold government jobs.
The dog tags were found in a house belonging to a member of Iraq's ruling Baath party, Bellini reported.
Referring to Iraqi's ruling Baath Party, he called for "de-Baathification" of the country.
In turn, the British military authorities and journalists reported that a civilian revolt began Tuesday against the ruling Baath Party.
It was not clear whether the former Baath Party leader was taken into custody by force or whether he surrendered.
Also taken into custody Thursday was an unnamed Iraqi described by officials as a former Baath Party leader from Fallujah.
As elsewhere in Iraq, the Kurdish parties seized former offices of the Baath and the security services as their headquarters.
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This comedown for Iraq's once all-powerful minority is most apparent in its leaders like Salih Mutlaq, a former Baath Party member, born in Fallujah.
Earlier Tuesday, British troops seized a senior Baath Party leader from his offices in Az Zubayr, southwest of Basra, said British Col.
For decades, Saddam and his Baath Party prevented pilgrims from entering Karbala.
President Saddam Hussein named his younger son, Qusay, as one of the two Baath Party figures with operational control over Iraq's armed forces.
One of Mr Bremer's first acts was to threaten to shoot looters on sight and to ban high-ranking Baath Party members from office.
In a televised address Saturday, al-Maliki defended the security forces and blamed an alliance of the Baath Party and al Qaeda for Wednesday's bombings.
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In Iraq, all major decisions went through Saddam Hussein who from 1979 was president, head of the Revolutionary Command Council and secretary general of the Baath party.
Near-identical flags fly on both sides of the border, insignia of the Arab nationalist party, the Baath, which has dominated both countries for the past 35 years.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, meanwhile described the car bomb attack on the ruling Baath Party's headquarters in Damascus on Thursday as a war crime.
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U.S. officials also have conceded they worry that Islamic radicals or Baath Party holdovers could fare better than other groups in direct elections because they have long-standing organizations.
Turkomen nationalists fear that Tuz Khurmatu, which the Baath regime placed in a predominantly Sunni province, will be attached to the Kurdish north in a future federal Iraq.
ECONOMIST: Ethnic rivalry in Iraq's relatively peaceful north
The Iraqi leaders, handpicked by Washington, met with U.S. officials to discuss a variety of matters, including whether Saddam's Baath Party will play a role in the new government.
Commanders say insurgents threatened bureaucrats into signing phony deeds for homes and land confiscated from former Baath party officials who are now dead, in jail or have fled the country.
In the early years of Baath rule, women were declared equal under the law and were required to attend literacy classes (though some were prevented from doing so by conservative family members).
If reporters believed that they had witnessed an American drive deep into the heart of the capital, Mr. Sahhaf, in the green uniform and black beret of the ruling Baath Party, wished to disabuse them.
Many of Saddam's fedayeen fighters and officials of his Baath Party, as well as Republican Guard members who have taken off their uniforms, are thought still to be armed and at large on the city's streets.
Meanwhile Mr Maliki is also co-operating with a shadowy parliamentary committee controlled by the INA that has the power to banish politicians for alleged sympathies with Saddam Hussein and for senior membership of his Baath party.
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While half the convoy escaped, Staff Sgt Cullingworth, who was married with two sons, and Sapper Allsopp were taken to a local Baath party headquarters and then to an Iraqi intelligence base, where they were shot dead.
Ayad Allawi, another Shia who was in exile in London, has gone some way to picking up the remnants of the Baath party, making links to trade unions and beefing up the revamped interior ministry he now controls.
Mr Allawi is a secular-minded member of Iraq's Shia Muslim majority, who quit Saddam's Baath party in the 1970s and, with the backing of American and British intelligence, formed the Iraqi National Accord, which opposed Saddam from exile.
The Iraqi government released on Sunday what it said was a confession from a man who said he received orders for the bombing of the Finance Ministry building from a member of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party who now lives in Syria.
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