FT:

Saddam Hussein’s political party is staging a comeback, and US military commanders are debating how far to accommodate it in Iraq’s coming constitutional referendum.
While less tied than before to the ousted dictator, the Ba’athist movement has become an important channel for Sunni Arab political expression, say US officers, helping to promote voting in the October 15 referendum.
But the New Ba’ath party, as military planners now call it, still flits between engagement in the US-backed political process and organising and financing insurgent attacks.