Iraqis are reluctant to blame their compatriots, even Baathist hardliners, for the blasts.
The videotaped statement from Wissam Ali Kadhim Ibrahim, who was identified as a former Baathist police official, aired on Iraqi television.
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Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti (Saddam's former Intelligence chief) and the former Chief Judge of the Baathist Revolutionary Court, Awad al-Bandar were also condemned.
The Americans have promised that the perpetrators of the mosque demolition, suspected to be either Kurdish bigots or Baathist provocateurs, will be brought to justice.
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He helped draft the country's new constitution and was a member of a committee, set up by the US, tasked with purging Iraq of its Baathist legacy.
Those attending, hand-picked by the United States, also are expected to discuss whether the Baathist Party, Saddam's ruling party, will be allowed a role in the future Iraq.
The Kurds, says Mr Zebari, need to make sure that whatever regime takes over in Baghdad, it does not threaten them, as the Baathist regime once threatened them.
Mr. ANTHONY SHADID (The Washington Post): Well, in the beginning of the campaign, it was often former Baathist officials and suspected insurgents who were picked up in these abductions.
On Thursday, Iraqi police, accompanied by American troops, raided Chalabi's compound -- a raid that Chalabi claimed was engineered by elements of the deposed Baathist regime, under protection of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
The bill that passed Iraq's Council of Representatives on Saturday still bars senior Baathist leaders involved in implementing Hussein's oppressive policies from government jobs, but former low-level Baathists not implicated in crimes could take advantage of the change.
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