1.  Reports using Kurdish opposition sources said that Saddam Hussein had named Brig. -Gen.

2.  The leaders of two main Kurdish opposition groups, Barzani and Jalal Talibani, did not attend the meeting.

3.  At the heart of the conflict is to whom an agreement will give authority to distribute aid in northern Iraq, where Kurdish opposition forces live.

4.  From a diplomatic standpoint, the air strikes were intended to persuade Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein to end his military offensive against Kurdish opposition forces in Iraq.

5.  Its implementation was halted last week by U.N. Secretary General Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali after Iraqi forces attacked Kurdish opposition forces in the city of Irbil.

6.  One of the biggest stumbling blocks is who gets control over distributing aid to the Kurdish opposition forces that live in northern Iraq.

7.  The operation was destroyed because a Kurdish opposition leader, Massoud Barzani, betrayed it as part of a power struggle with a rival.

8.  The U.N. delayed the long-anticipated sale last week after Iraqi forces attacked a Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq.

9.  Iraq said it planned to withdraw quickly from Irbil, but U.S. officials and Kurdish opposition forces said they were skeptical.

10.  Iraq said it planned to withdraw quickly, but U.S. officials and Kurdish opposition forces said they were skeptical.