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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. | ||
In the autumn of [[2004]], [[Chip Beck (Scouting)|Chip Beck]], a former Navy | In the autumn of [[2004]], [[Chip Beck (Scouting)|Chip Beck]], a former Navy commander, [[CIA]] operative, and Assistant Commissioner for Venture Scouting in the [[Scouting in the District of Columbia|National Capital Area Council]] (NCAC) of Washington D.C., was serving a 6 month CPA tour of duty in Iraq, and had the idea to try and restart scouting in the country. The Iraqi Scouts Initiative committee was led by Co-Chairmen Beck and [[Michael Bradle]], an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]]. | ||
Beck and a quorum of 100 multinational Scouters informally established the ''Green Zone Council'' of Scouting in February [[2004]] as a loose fraternal organization for fellow Scouters serving in Iraq. Through various Scouting networks, the ''GZC'' as it was called, came to the attention of Bradle and his corporation, who offered their full support, suggesting both groups work to formally re-establish a legal, recognized, and fully functioning Scouting program in Iraq. | Beck and a quorum of 100 multinational Scouters informally established the ''Green Zone Council'' of Scouting in February [[2004]] as a loose fraternal organization for fellow Scouters serving in Iraq. Through various Scouting networks, the ''GZC'' as it was called, came to the attention of Bradle and his corporation, who offered their full support, suggesting both groups work to formally re-establish a legal, recognized, and fully functioning Scouting program in Iraq. | ||
