- Dr. Ahmad Chalabi is part of a three-man leadership council for the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress. How is it possible that Saddam Hussein is still in power in Baghdad This is not a situation unique to Iraq. Saddam Hussein runs a totalitarian dictatorship, augmented by a medieval clan structure. A totalitarian dictatorship is a twentieth-century phenomenon. You had it in ...www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/chalabi.html