BAGHDAD -- Iraq's top Shiite cleric opposes a draft law that would allow former members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party to resume government positions, the head of the committee dealing with the Baathists said Sunday.
Ahmed Chalabi met with Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani on Sunday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf to discuss the draft law that would allow thousands of former Baath Party members to regain their jobs or grant them pensions if they are denied jobs they once held in the government or military.
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Chalabi, who runs the Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification, later met three other senior Shiite clerics.
"The grand ayatollahs said it is dangerous for the criminals to return to leading posts in the state," he said.
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