WAR ON IRAK

Arab News: Iraqi Opposition in Bitter Dispute With US Aide

SALAHADDIN, Iraq, 2 March 2003 — A bid by Iraqi opposition groups to stake their claim to the future leadership of a post-Saddam Hussein government has ended in an acrimonious showdown with the United States, officials revealed yesterday. As opposition officials were struggling to wrap up four days of key talks in Kurdish rebel-held northern Iraq, delegates revealed there had been an angry exchange with a US envoy over Washington’s plans to install a military government, control the country’s oil fields and allow in Turkish troops