| The impetus was provided by the Baath regime's decision to nationalise the oil industry. |
| Syria is a Sunni-majority country chafing under rule by a clique of Allawites, a Shiite sect, who control the secular Syrian Baath. |
| The Pan-Arab tendency and movement was the political movement which stood behind the chauvinistic ideas and practices of the Baath regime. |
| Identification of Uday and Qusay's bodies was confirmed by X-rays, dental records and former Baath party officials who knew them. |
| Some were continued, largely because there were so many elements within the Baath Party bureaucracy with a vested interest in these expenditures. |
| The Baath declared itself the defender of Arabism against its Persian and Zoroastrian enemy and launched a campaign to discredit opposition groups. |
