CIA Chief Admits Major Miscalculation On Iraq
CIA Director Robert Gates said U.S. intelligence warned in 1989 Iraq would not attack neighbors for years to rebuild after the Iran war, but by spring 1990 Iraq began a large scale military buildup and the warning proved wrong. Relatives of British soldiers killed by friendly fire in the Gulf War pressed for testimony at an Oxford inquest. Twenty one nations geared to curb Middle East arms flows as peace talks stall. Sikh separatists detonated a car bomb in Amritsar injuring a cabinet minister and police said.