11.   Unable to agree on a single candidate to challenge Moi this time around, the splintered opposition factions have used the issue of constitutional reform to galvanize themselves.

12.   Opposition factions in the past have failed to form a united alliance against Saddam because of their traditional rivalries.

13.   A key opposition faction has agreed to an alliance with President Burhanuddin Rabbani and is supplying troops to fight alongside government soldiers, a Defense Ministry official said Monday.

14.   According to Ahmed, the Taliban defeated the Hezb-e-Islami movement, the main opposition faction entrenched on the outskirts of Kabul and in nearby towns.

15.   Already pressed by one rebel attack on the capital of Kabul, government forces were overrun by a different opposition faction in the central town of Bamiyan.

16.   And when he comes back, he must not also disappoint the opposition faction either and show that he is more than worthy to take up its political challenge.

17.   And from what can be sensed through media reports and opinion polls, the opposition faction appears as if it will be trying to spit against the wind.

18.   Arafat has invited the leaders of all opposition factions to meet Tuesday to discuss terms of political participation and hammering out a shared agenda.

19.   Arafat has invited the leaders of all opposition factions to meet on Tuesday to discuss terms of political participation and hammering out a shared agenda vis-a-vis Israel.

20.   Arafat has summoned the heads of all opposition factions to a meeting next week in the West Bank town of Nablus.