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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])

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