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...reassert their authority. "We've left the bad Baathists a lot of latitude, and they have had a lot of time to regroup," says retired Colonel Ted Seel, Central Command liaison to the Iraqi National Congress, a group opposed to Saddam that recently returned from exile. Dr. Goran Talabani, a neurologist who is advising the Americans on Iraq's health-care system, says Baath loyalists are threatening Health Ministry employees and telling them not to cooperate with the Americans. Talabani, a cousin of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani and a close adviser to Ahmed Chalabi, who heads the Iraqi National Congress...
...intensity. The five opposition groups tapped by General Jay Garner to form the nucleus of a transitional government held a meeting in the city on Thursday. But rather than form a government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the Iran-based Shiite organization the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - are calling...
...shopowner, Zuhair Muhammed. But just a few hours later, the streets were controlled by Kurds. Crowds of teenage boys rode in the back of pickups shooting their Kalashnikovs in the air. Peshmerga commandeered Iraqi tanks for joyrides. Someone pasted a photocopied image of the face of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani over the face on one mural of Saddam Hussein...
...proxy force fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Though the "free" Kurds claim to have 100,000 fighters ready to help the Americans and its allies if a war starts, a senior U.S. official in the region says the Kurdish forces, called the peshmerga, are poorly equipped. Jalal Talabani, secretary-general of the P.U.K., says he has never received arms or ammunition from the Americans. But the CIA, intelligence officials say, will use its new stations in the north to win over to the U.S. side those Kurds who live south of the liberated zone and are now loyal to Baghdad...
...Publicly, he's being more cautious, more diplomatic than Talabani, who has pledged wholehearted support. Barzani is playing a more calculating game, because he wants definite assurances from the U.S. that his people will be defended before jumps on the bandwagon. But if there's an invasion, he's definitely willing to cooperate. Also, the two finally seem to be serious about putting aside their differences for the greater interests of Iraqi Kurds. They've traditionally always gone through phases of fighting and then making up. There's a real belief here now that they're serious about working together...