Iran says has proof U.S., UK back police killer group --U.S.-UK backed terror group is part of al Qaeda network Iran has documents to prove the United States and Britain back a group that killed 16 abducted Iranian police officers, state [as opposed to corporate] radio reported on Saturday. Shi'ite-dominated Iran said this month the Sunni group Jundollah (God's Soldiers) had killed 16 police hostages who were abducted from a checkpoint in the southeastern Sistan- Baluchestan province in June. Tehran has said Jundollah's head, Abdolmalek Rigi, is part of the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda network. "There are documents that show that Britain and America are supporting Rigi's terrorist group with arms and information," the radio quoted Ebrahim Raisi, first deputy to Iran's judiciary chief, as saying.
Hayden-Obama briefing stirs speculation CIA Director Michael V. Hayden flew to Chicago on Tuesday to give a full intelligence briefing to President-elect Barack Obama, The Washington Times has learned. It was not clear whether Mr. Obama discussed Mr. Hayden's future as director of the agency in the new administration, but the focus of the private meeting, which also included Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, centered on the state of national security and was considered classified. Speculation is growing among intelligence experts and officials that Mr. Obama will ask Mr. Hayden to stay on.
Report: U.S. reconstruction in Iraq '$100 billion failure' --Pentagon 'put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures' An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure. The history, the first official account of its kind, also concludes that when the reconstruction began to lag... the Pentagon simply put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures.
Hayden-Obama briefing stirs speculation CIA Director Michael V. Hayden flew to Chicago on Tuesday to give a full intelligence briefing to President-elect Barack Obama, The Washington Times has learned. It was not clear whether Mr. Obama discussed Mr. Hayden's future as director of the agency in the new administration, but the focus of the private meeting, which also included Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, centered on the state of national security and was considered classified. Speculation is growing among intelligence experts and officials that Mr. Obama will ask Mr. Hayden to stay on.
Report: U.S. reconstruction in Iraq '$100 billion failure' --Pentagon 'put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures' An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure. The history, the first official account of its kind, also concludes that when the reconstruction began to lag... the Pentagon simply put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures.
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