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To: KLP who wrote (65539)	1/12/2003 10:50:33 AM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Yup it's the big one. Wonder if this conference to be held in Northern Iraq is one of the things that's making the Turks so nervous, if they are nervous (can't believe everything you read :O}). It would certainly demonstrate Saddam's weakness to his Tikriti mafia. I'll be amazed if it happens. TWT. January 12, 2003 Iraqi Dissidents Reassured in a Talk With Bush About the Post-Hussein Era By JUDITH MILLER nytimes.com ...Senior administration officials have recently stepped up contacts with the Iraqi opposition. Barham Salih, the prime minister of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which controls part of the no-flight zone in northern Iraq, and Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, have both met with Zalmay Khalilzad, Mr. Bush's special envoy to the opposition. Mr. Chalabi said they had all agreed on the need for "close coordination to efforts to remove Saddam from power." He and Mr. Salih both said that Iraqi opposition representatives would meet in northern Iraq after Jan. 15 to designate a small group of opposition figures to help lead a transition to democracy once Saddam Hussein is gone. They said the meeting would be held in Salahuddin, a former resort town 30 miles northeast of Erbil. "This will be an in-your-face-Saddam gathering," Mr. Chalabi said in an interview. "We're meeting inside Iraq to show we are determined to participate in the overthrow of Saddam." Opposition figures also said that Iraqi dissidents would begin receiving military training in Hungary on Jan. 12, but that precisely how such training would be financed was still being discussed.

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