As Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was in Washington this past week to meet with other Iraqi opposition leaders and administration officials, his rival Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), was conspicuously absent. As President George Bush continues to promote his policy of ‘regime change’ in Iraq, the White House has hosted recent high-level meetings with Iraqi Kurdish groups to determine their level of support for a potential U.S.-led assault to oust Saddam Hussein. See Spotlight Article
