regime in 1970 and 1971. i qualified as a doctor, and i had to leave because there was real disagreement with the leadership in the party with saddam hussein. i went to lebanon, then went to london to do my postgr-graduate studies. and i left the baath party, and i was trying to form a clandestine opposition group from within the establishment in iraq. this did not appeal, of course, to saddam hussein, so he sent me people to try and assassinate me in london, and on a very cold night in february, 1978. i woke up suddenly, accidentally, to see a shadow by the bed, and then i saw a