"Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had been hostile to the Baathist regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, blaming the latter for bombings in Baghdad in the second half of the last decade. The Syrian Baath Party is a branch of the same Baath Party that had ruled Iraq 1968-2003, which in Iraq came to be headed by Saddam Hussein. Al-Maliki is a longtime leader of the Islamic Mission Party (Hizb al-Da`wa al-Islamiya), which was dedicated to overthrowing the Baath."
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