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 this group’s slogan “Unity, Freedom, Socialism.” A leader of this party stressed qutri, or local interests, over qawmi to justify launching a domestic wartime campaign against the Barzani clan. This party staged a successful coup against Abd al-Karim Qasim during the 1963 Ramadan Revolution. The first of 100 Orders issued by Paul Bremer called for “de-[this party]ification,” which exacerbated an insurgency 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 party? ■END■
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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