Line-up of likely contenders to take over post-Saddam

The Iraqi National Congress (INC): Founded in 1992 as an umbrella group for other exiled opposition groups, the INC has since faced claims it acts unilaterally as its own party.

It supported a report by a US-backed working group of Iraqis which recommends establishing a "transitional authority" before any strike on Saddam Hussein.

That authority would double in size once established in Iraq and would oversee democratic elections to choose a new government, while