The proposal would curtail some of the provisions of the Justice and Accountability Commission, more commonly known as Iraq's debaathification law, which was originally drafted to exclude elements of the Saddam Hussein regime from post-U.S. invasion politics. Under the new law, government and bureaucratic positions long occupied by Iraq's Sunni minorities were available for the country's Shiite majority. The law also denied lower-level but experienced government workers the opportunity to help rebuild Iraq. Individuals not blacklisted under the current version would be eligible to re-enter political life. Local-level Baath Party branch chiefs would no longer be banned from political and governmental positions, and pension payments would be instituted for Hussein's personal paramilitary force, the Fedayeen Saddam. Political Engagement The Sunni-led civil war against Syrian President Bashar al Assad has spread into Iraq.