 Bush on Saturday challenged what he called public "misimpressions" about Iraq as he battled a gloomy assessment of the war in an intelligence report and the fallout from a book portraying him as in denial over it. With five weeks to go before midterm congressional elections, and Democrats seizing on both revelations, Bush said the leaks of a U.S. intelligence report indicating the Iraq war had increased the threat of terrorism created "a lot of misimpressions about the document's conclusions."The president has since declassified 3-1/2 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate prepared by the 16 U.S. spy agencies. The report's judgment that the Iraq war has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists was seen by Democrats as bolstering their campaign argument that Bush's policies in Iraq had put Americans at greater risk.Bush used his weekly radio address to challenge that interpretation....
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 Isaac gains hurricane status, heads toward Canada |
Isaac strengthened into the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season Saturday, and could reach eastern Canada by early next week, forecasters said. At 11 a.m. ET, Isaac had top sustained winds near 75 mph, just above the 74 mph threshold to become a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Isaac should stay to the east of Bermuda, but the Canadian Maritimes and Newfoundland could feel the outer edges of the storm by Monday or Tuesday, forecasters said. The ninth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was centered about 370 miles east-southeast of Bermuda and moving northwest near 7 mph. A turn to the north-northwest was expected by Sunday. ...
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| Plan Colombia: Cocaine Still Flows Big Gains As U.S. Cites Record Coca-Crop Destruction, But Drug Cartels Remain |
Margarita Consuela Gomez Ricardo and Carlos Murillo met during a police raid on a warehouse of pirated DVDs seven years ago. Later that evening, after they swooped in and made the arrests, he asked her out for coffee. And six months later they were married. Now, at age 31 and with two small children, Gomez is a widow. The last time she spoke to Murillo was on Friday, May 19. He said he was coming home that weekend. Their 2-year-old son was watching Power Rangers on TV at full volume and she could barely hear her husband's goodbye. She went out to get her hair done, and dressed up the kids nicely, but Murillo never showed. She was disappointed, but that wasn't unusual. On Monday night, as she channel-surfed in their Cali apartment, she caught a newsflash: An elite police unit had been shot in Jamundí. She called the station, but she knew. ...
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| Wreckage of Brazil flight spotted |
Brazil's air force has located the wreckage of a passenger plane which disappeared over the Amazon rainforest. The Boeing 737, which had 155 people on board, was flying from Manaus to the capital, Brasilia, when it vanished from radar screens. It was found in a remote area of the rural state of Mato Grosso. "It would be very difficult for anyone to survive such a crash," Jose Carlos Pereira, president of the Brazilian airport authority, told journalists. "Our experience shows that when one cannot find the fuselage relatively intact and when the wreckage is concentrated in a relatively small area, the chances of finding any survivors are practically non-existent," he said. The plane was operated by budget airline Gol. ...
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| Russia suspends Georgia pullout |
A senior Russian army commander says Moscow is suspending the withdrawal of its forces from Georgia, amid a spying row between the two countries. Russian forces were to pull out of two bases in Georgia by 2008, but the commander said the security of troops could not be guaranteed as they left. Four Russian officers detained in Georgia have been charged with spying Russia has denied the accusations, and is evacuating all its staff from the Russian embassy in Tbilisi. Deteriorating relations On Friday a court in Tbilisi charged the four officers and ordered their detention for two months pending investigations. Russia has denounced the arrests, called for the release of the four officers and urged the United Nations Security Council to take action to restrain Georgia. Georgian police have continued to maintain the cordon around the Russian military headquarters in Tbilisi which has been in place since Wednesday. ...
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| Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks' |
Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said. AN Roy said the Students' Islamic Movement of India had also assisted. Pakistan rejected the allegations and said India had given no evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks. "We have solved the 11 July bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and their operatives in India," Mumbai (Bombay) police commissioner AN Roy told a news conference. Tariq Azim Khan, Pakistan's minister of state for information, rejected the allegations....
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