Balance of Power

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting has an article protraying the politics on the Iraqi Governing Council as largely between exiles and those who remained in Iraq under Saddam. the leading candidate to replace the late Aqila al-Hashemi is a woman named Safia as-Souhail, who during Saddam's last years served with a Paris-based human rights group while retaining strong connections to her tribe in Iraq, the Banu Tamim. The article also contained the interesting point that the exiles are the once who have experience working with global politics, even if they lack experience and support within Iraqi society. Sounds like the two sides might need each other, after all.