Question

This group justified show trials against a rival group using letters written to Georgetown professor Hisham Sharabi. The historian Hanna Batatu analyzed how a founder of this group wrestled with an idea that he called a risala khalida (“ree-SAH-lah KHAH-lee-dah”), or “eternal message,” in a tract which helped coin (-5[1])this group’s slogan “Unity, Freedom, Socialism.” (10[1])A leader of this party stressed (10[1])qutri, or local interests, over qawmi to justify launching a domestic wartime campaign against the Barzani clan. (10[1])This party (10[1])staged a (10[1])successful coup against Abd al-Karim (-5[1])Qasim (10[2])during the 1963 Ramadan (10[2])Revolution. (10[2])The (10[2])first of 100 Orders issued by Paul Bremer called for (10[1])“de-[this party]ification,” (10[5])which (-5[1])exacerbated (10[1])an insurgency (10[1])that began after a leader of this party was captured in a “spider hole” near Tikrit. For 10 points, Saddam Hussein led what pan-Arabist (10[1])party? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ba’ath (“bahth”) Party [or Arab Socialist Baʿth Party; or Ḥizb al-Baʿth al-ʿArabī al-Ishtirākī; or Arab Ba’ath Party]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%13%94.79

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Nathaniel HullUC Berkeley AIndiana46-5
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Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateLSE5810
Nitin RaoHarvardVirginia Tech7510
Qingyu ZhangFloridaWaterloo B7710
Conor ThompsonIowa StateJohns Hopkins7910
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AChicago A84-5
Cooper RohColumbia AIllinois A8510
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BYale8510
Brian HoffCornell BOhio State8910
Joey SunToronto BToronto C8910
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUBritish Columbia9010
Alexander NicholsUCFVanderbilt9010
Patrick TorreMarylandVirginia9110
Bryce CruiseTexasMIT9110
Ian LuGeorgia TechMinnesota10110
Henry BonWinona StateRIT10310
Aryan DesarapuMichiganNorth Carolina B10310
Michael DuWaterloo ARutgers10310
Charles HangWUSTL AStanford10310
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina ANorthwestern10310
Nathan ZhangCornell AChicago B104-5
Adrian WongOttawaPenn State10510
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia BIllinois B10710
Adam FineChicago AToronto A13110
Liam StarnesChicago BCornell A13210
Jakob MyersIndianaUC Berkeley A13310