German intelligence chief: Iraq at 'crossroads,' could break up
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BERLIN A warning about Iraq from Germany's intelligence chief. August Hanning says violence in Iraq could plunge the country into the chaos of a disintegrating "failed state." He points to pre-Nine-Eleven ...
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Former Defense Secretary William Perry, a member of the Iraq Study Group, said Saturday that Iraq could turn into a "quagmire" if the Bush administration fails to change strategy.
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Germany&#39;s defense minister suggested Wednesday that his country might one day send troops to Iraq, but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder played down those remarks and said it would not happen.
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WASHINGTON - A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate assembled by some of the government's most senior analysts this summer provided a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.    The National Intelligence Council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the war-torn country and determined - at best - the situation would be tenuous in terms of stability, a U.S...
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In a farewell assessment of Iraq's security and political situation, the CIA's senior officer there wrote that a stronger government and economy are necessary to avoid descent into wider violence, a U.S. official said yesterday.
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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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German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will come home over the next decade - changes that will have an ...
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Germany&#39;s interior minister said it was time to put aside differences with the United States over Iraq and look to the future as President Bush won a second term, but another
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German Defence Minister Peter Struck appeared in an interview with Britain's Financial Times newspaper to soften his country's stance on Iraq, hinting that Germany might deploy troops if conditions there change.
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A senior German minister said on  Wednesday that the country, which staunchly opposed the  U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, could eventually send  troops to Iraq, although he ruled out any such move for now.
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Talks next month between President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will focus on the fight against terrorism and the situation in Iraq, a German government spokesman said on Friday.
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War is not an option against Iran and no  one expects the standoff over Iran's nuclear program to lead to  an "Iraq-like confrontation," German Foreign Minister Joschka  Fischer was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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European governments should put divisions over Iraq behind them and join in helping the United States restore order there, the European Union's incoming chief executive said in an interview published Friday.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cautioned against rushing to restructure the nation&#39;s intelligence services and General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said creation of a national intelligence director may ...
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The defense secretary also cautioned that any final decision hinged on the progress of Iraq's new government.
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German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will return to the United States over the next decade.
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In an internal assessment given to Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, a senior intelligence analyst and a military planner for the U.S. command in Baghdad call for shifting U.S. strategy in Iraq away from counterinsurgency and toward peace enforcement, and they suggest that the Shiite-led ruling coalition...