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Baghdad Citizens Gathering
On 31 December 2006, a Baathist group previously unknown who following the execution of Saddam Hussein, the former ruler of Iraq and leader of Iraq's Baath Party, very publicly issued a statement in Amman in Jordan at the Jordanian branch of the Iraqi Baath Party (apparently sent from the Baath Party organisation in Iraq) endorsing Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri - Saddam's Deputy as the new "President of Iraq" and new leader of the Baath Party.Jordan Baathists pledge loyalty to Saddam deputy Jerusalem Post, 31 December 2006A group of Iraqi Baathists pledges allegiance to Saddam's fugitive deputy, naming him leader International Herald Tribune, 31 December 2006
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