CIA Pessimistic About Situation in Iraq
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While President Bush and others have delivered optimistic public appraisals, officials who fight the Iraqi insurgency and study it believe the rebellion is deeper and more widespread than is being publicly acknowledged, officials say.
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The situation in Iraq is perilous, with Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence surpassing al Qaeda as the most immediate threat to U.S. goals, according to a long-awaited intelligence report, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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BAGHDAD - A senior Iraqi official cautioned yesterday against expecting "magical solutions" from the upcoming reports to Congress on military and political progress in Iraq and acknowledged the Iraqis are still not ready to defend the country on their own.
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The U.S. acknowledged Friday that Iraq is spiraling downward, with sectarian animosity growing and new Iraqi troops being added too slowly in a precarious mix that could draw the country's neighbors into the violence if American troops leave.
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Ryan C. Crocker laid out a grim forecast of what could happen if American forces were pulled back or even withdrawn from Iraq.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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WASHINGTON - The National Intelligence Council presented President Bush this summer with several 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 war-torn country and determined that - at best - stability in Iraq would be tenuous, a U.S...
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Growing frustration with the performance of the Democratic Congress, combined with widespread public pessimism over President Bush's temporary troop buildup in Iraq, has left satisfaction with the overall direction of the country at its lowest point in more than a decade, according to a new...
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Iraq could become a training ground for terrorists around the world, a US intelligence report warns.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 16, 2004 - A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate assembled by some of the government&#39;s most senior analysts this summer provided a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the US military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with ...
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Partisan battles heat up over intelligence conclusions on Iraq
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Polls show Iraqis optimistic for longer term, worried now.
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As reflected in CIA classified studies last month, U.S. military and intelligence officials are still trying to understand the various Iraqi insurgency groups that they expect will continue to fight, even after last week's election.
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The CIA is publishing a series of  classified reports revising its prewar intelligence assessments  of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an intelligence official  said on Tuesday.
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A US intelligence examination of the effects of the Iraq war reportedly says it is making the threat of terror worse.
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US President George W. Bush dismissed a gloomy CIA forecast for Iraq as guesswork and branded Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry's warnings about deadly chaos there as &quot;hardly credible.&quot;