1.  Both Damascus and Tehran provided encouragement for anti-Baghdad Iraqi groups.

2.  An interview of the two men was set up by an Iraqi group that seeks the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein.

3.  An official of the Iraqi group said its leadership was meeting to consider how to overturn the State Department decision.

4.  The United States and its allies created the zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Persian Gulf War to protect Iraqi ethnic groups facing repression from Saddam.

5.  The United States and its allies created the zones to protect Iraqi ethnic groups facing repression by Baghdad.

6.  The team soon uncovered a secretive Iraqi group known as the Technical and Scientific Materials Import Division.

7.  Washington is more likely to pursue a strategy of political and military encirclement, depending heavily on Iraqi groups long estranged from Baghdad.

8.  White House spokesman P.J. Crowley also said the Iraqi comments served to justify US support for Iraqi groups seeking to topple Hussein.

9.  Opposition Iraqi groups in exile, however, shunned al-Majid because of his former close ties with the Iraqi president.

10.  An Iraqi dissident group said Wednesday that an air force officer was executed in a prison near Baghdad after his attempt to defect through neighboring Jordan failed.