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The Iraqi opposition can refer to two things: Pre-2003 : Iraqi anti-Saddam groups were composed of a number of groups in Iraq opposed to the Saddam regime. Post-2003 : The collective term usually denoting Iraqi resistance opposed to the American-led coalition forces and Iraqi security forces (before the Allawi government and under its control) during the occupation of Iraq that followed the Iraq war on May 1, 2003. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page. Categories: Disambiguation

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	CFR (754 words) Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP): One of two main Kurd opposition parties, the KDP is led by Massoud Barzani and is based in the northwestern part of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region bordering Turkey. Iraqi National Accord (INA): The INA is made up primarily of former military and security officials drawn from Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. A similar meeting was convened in the Kurdish-controlled northern Iraqi town of Salahuddin in 1992, when some 200 delegates from about 30 parties pledged to oust Saddam and establish a democratic, unified state based on a federal structure. U.S. Support for the Iraqi Opposition (3913 words) On December 17, 2002, a long-delayed conference of the Iraqi opposition in exile concluded in London. U.S. support for Iraqi opposition groups has become primarily an exercise in "public diplomacy" aimed at showing American and international critics of the administration's push for "regime change" that Iraqis want to be liberated from the grip of Saddam Hussein and the ruling Baath Party. Defectors from the Iraqi Army, touting their contacts who still command strategic posts, argue that the best way to forestall postwar revenge attacks is to encourage a coup--in which case numerous officers stained by the current regime's depredations may never be investigated.
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