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Iraq was one of the first [[Arab]] nations to embrace the [[Scouting]] movement, launching its program in [[1921]], just two years after the [[League of Nations]] had created the country out of the old | Iraq was one of the first [[Arab]] nations to embrace the [[Scouting]] movement, launching its program in [[1921]], just two years after the [[League of Nations]] had created the country out of the old Ottoman Empire. Iraq was a member of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] from 1922 to 1940, and again from 1956 to 1999. | ||
After the [[Baath party]] took control in [[1968]] and especially after [[Saddam Hussein]] seized power in [[1979]], youth groups were retooled to serve the state. One replacement program, Saddam's Cubs, offered "summer camps" where 10 to 15 year-old boys endured 14-hour days filled with hand-to-hand fighting drills. In 1990, during the period when the '''Iraq Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Council''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: جمعية الكشافة و المرشدين العراقية ) was recognized by WOSM, the Mesopotamian nation had 12,000 Scouts, however by 1999, Iraq had been expelled from the WOSM. | After the [[Baath party]] took control in [[1968]] and especially after [[Saddam Hussein]] seized power in [[1979]], youth groups were retooled to serve the state. One replacement program, Saddam's Cubs, offered "summer camps" where 10 to 15 year-old boys endured 14-hour days filled with hand-to-hand fighting drills. In 1990, during the period when the '''Iraq Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Council''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: جمعية الكشافة و المرشدين العراقية ) was recognized by WOSM, the Mesopotamian nation had 12,000 Scouts, however by 1999, Iraq had been expelled from the WOSM. | ||
