From Reuters, 9/27/06:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060927/pl_nm/security_usa_dc

Bush contends with 2 reports refuting Iraq gains

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

An intelligence report showing an upsurge in Islamic militancy put the
White House on the defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate
over whether President George W. Bush has made America safer.

In a second blow to the president, a new U.N. report said the
Iraq war was providing al Qaeda with a training center and fresh
recruits, and was inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
hundreds of miles away.

Bush ordered the release of parts of the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) on Tuesday to try to stamp out a political fire after a
leaked portion said the Iraq war had increased Islamic extremism.

But a key judgment in the declassified version that could backfire on
Bush said intelligence experts believed activists identifying
themselves as jihadists "are increasing in both number and geographic
dispersion."

The report, prepared in April, also said the Iraq war had become the
"cause celebre" for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S.
involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the
global jihadist movement."

The U.N. report released on Wednesday jibed with the NEI's
conclusions.

"New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of
their first appearing in Iraq," it said.

"And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside
Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both
Iraq and Somalia."

The U.N. report was prepared by terrorism experts for the Security
Council,

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This Republican administration has us deep *****, ladies and gentlemen.

Harry

From Reuters, 9/27/06:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060927/pl_nm/security_usa_dc

Bush contends with 2 reports refuting Iraq gains

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

An intelligence report showing an upsurge in Islamic militancy put the
White House on the defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate
over whether President George W. Bush has made America safer.

In a second blow to the president, a new U.N. report said the
Iraq war was providing al Qaeda with a training center and fresh
recruits, and was inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
hundreds of miles away.

Bush ordered the release of parts of the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) on Tuesday to try to stamp out a political fire after a
leaked portion said the Iraq war had increased Islamic extremism.

But a key judgment in the declassified version that could backfire on
Bush said intelligence experts believed activists identifying
themselves as jihadists "are increasing in both number and geographic
dispersion."

The report, prepared in April, also said the Iraq war had become the
"cause celebre" for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S.
involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the
global jihadist movement."

The U.N. report released on Wednesday jibed with the NEI's
conclusions.

"New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of
their first appearing in Iraq," it said.

"And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside
Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both
Iraq and Somalia."

The U.N. report was prepared by terrorism experts for the Security
Council,

________________________________________________________

This Republican administration has us deep *****, ladies and gentlemen.

Harry