Third, the poor Shi'ite majority in southern Iraq and Baghdad is clearly jubilant about the fall of Saddam,and is expecting that its second-class economic status should soon end. The Bush Administration, however, hasdifferent ideas, by enhancing the role of unpopular exiles from Iraq's elite, who dominated the country beforethe 1958 revolution toppled the monarchy. U.S. planes flew the Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabiback into Iraq after a 47-year exile. Shi'ite clerics and other dissidents were furious that the elite Shi'itebanker was being groomed for a major role in the occupation, and threatened to lead a revolt. A Shi'ite clericopposing Saddam in Basra similarly told the New York Times, "We regard nationalists in the army asdefending Iraqi land against invasion and the exploitation of Iraqi wealth. They are defending Iraq, not theregime." But a young Shi'ite man put it most eloquently to an ABC News reporter covering the chaoticdistribution of food aid in Umm Qasr: "You have humiliated us more than our enemies."