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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 Ottoman Empire. Iraq was a member of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] from 1922 to 1940, and again from 1956 to 1999. | 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 | 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 was recognized by WOSM, there were 12,000 Scouts, however by 1999, Iraq had been expelled from the WOSM. | ||
An Iraqi Scouts Initiative committee was formed by Americans in 2004 to formally re-establish a legal, recognized, and fully functioning Scouting program in Iraq. Since then, the movement has been taken over by Iraqis and is now run exclusively by them. | An Iraqi Scouts Initiative committee was formed by Americans in 2004 to formally re-establish a legal, recognized, and fully functioning Scouting program in Iraq. Since then, the movement has been taken over by Iraqis and is now run exclusively by them. | ||