May 3, 1989
Baath Party meeting 05/03/1989 Saddam Hussein talks about Baath Ideology
This file contains a meeting between Saddam and his Bath Party members: The record starts at 00:01:30. Saddam talked about Bath Party ideology and dogma. He said that Bath Party achieves all theories of religions and divine messages sent to human race. It isn't an atheist party but rather it is a monotheist party. It is a party which is parallel to religions; however it isn't a religious party. It expresses the unity of Arabs. Then he talked about Iran and the Iranian revolution which overthrown the royal regime. Me Iranian religious system is a double edged weapon that benefits and harms the Arabs at the same time but it will be harmful if the Bath party doesn't do its role. The track is blank from 00:44:40 until 00:45:05.At 00:45:06 the record is back again but this time unidentified man was speaking. Ile talked about Islam. He talked about the historical conflict between the Muslim eastern Arabic world and the Christian west. Then he talked about Khomeini and his ideology. The record finishes at 01:27:50. 01:27:50 to 01:30:02 the track is blank.
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