CIA Cable Bears Dire Predictions for Iraq
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Description: A classified cable written by the CIA&#39;s outgoing station chief in Baghdad, the contents of which were reported in The New York Times, paints a bleak future for Iraq.
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A U.S. intelligence report prepared for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a deterioration into civil war, government officials said on Thursday.
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Intelligence analysts predicted, in secret papers circulated within the government before the Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see U.S. military action as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to shape a post-Saddam Iraq.
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WASHINGTON Two leading senators are voicing concerns about reports that the CIA secretly sent some prisoners out of Iraq for interrogations.
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WASHINGTON - The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush this summer with three pessimistic scenarios regarding the security situation in Iraq, including the possibility of a civil war there before the end of 2005.    In a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, the council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the wartorn country and determined that - at best - a tenuous stability was possible, a U.S...
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A new National Intelligence Estimate depicts an Iraq involved in a multi-faceted struggle among religious groups and sects and says that without a sharp reversal in the violence and changes among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd leadership, the situation could further deteriorate.
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A U.S. intelligence report prepared  for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq  through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a  deterioration into civil war, government officials said on  Thursday.
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The situation in Iraq is unlikely to  improve anytime soon, according to a classified cable and  briefings from the CIA, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON The CIA has reportedly moved as many as a dozen prisoners out of Iraq in the last six months, which could violate international treaties.
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Iraq could become a training ground for terrorists around the world, a US intelligence report warns.
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President Bush, determined to put an  optimistic face on deadly turmoil in Iraq, said on Tuesday that  the CIA was just guessing when it said the country was in  danger of slipping into civil war.