Some ten-thousand Iraqi workers in Saddam's regime re-employed

[sabra]

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=5247086&nav=AbC0

Some ten-thousand Iraqi workers in Saddam's regime re-employed

BAGHDAD, Iraq About ten-thousand workers in Saddam Hussein's former regime have been re-employed as part of a national reconciliation plan.

More than eight-thousand of the reinstated employees worked for the key interior and defense ministries. The chief of the Agency for Dissolved Entities says the decision to reinstate former employees "is very important to resuscitate a wide segment of our Iraqi society."

The agency was set up by the government in 2005 to help tens of thousands of workers made jobless in the purge after the March 2003 invasion toppled Saddam.

The program involved purging senior officials who were members of Saddam's Baath Party. But in the absence of proper records, it is likely that tens of thousands of lower level officials also were fired.

[Robbien]

1. As they should be

In the US you have to register as a Republican to get a job in government work. I'd like to think that all those so called Republicans are not all rightwing nutjobs.