IRAQ: THE OPPOSITION ALTERNATIVE

The recent decision by the western powers not to make the removal from power of President Saddam Hussein a condition for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq is merely making a virtue out of necessity. There is in fact very little the western powers are able or are willing to do about consigning Saddam Hussein to the dustbin of history. The dropping of Saddam Hussein's enforced departure from the western political agenda for Iraq has not, however, at all diminished the fervour and the activities of the Iraqi political opposition groups.