Senate panel faults prewar Iraq weapons claims
The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found that key U.S. assertions about Saddam Hussein possessing chemical, biological, and potential nuclear weapons before the 2003 invasion were wrong. Analysts fell prey to group think and overstated conclusions, with ongoing intelligence problems beyond funding. Senator Pat Roberts highlighted the assessments as unreasonable and unsupported by available intelligence.
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Associated Press
Washington
U.S
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
CIA
Senate Intelligence Committee
Think
Pat Roberts
Kansas
Insurgency in Iraq larger than U.S. believed
Iraqi insurgency is led by well armed Sunnis with nationalist backing, not foreign fighters. Officials say up to 20,000 guerrillas could be mobilized, far above the 5,000 previously estimated, with specialized cells and tribal leadership. Some leaders are open to political reconciliation rather than pure combat.
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Baghdad
Iraq
U.S
Associated Press
Bush
Clerk, commissioners joust over minutes
County officials clash over draft minutes from the June 30 meeting with Ed Taylor Don Waymire and Fred Ferguson pushing for longer, more detailed entries. They criticized edits by County Clerk Shaun Perry while Perry defended the HR budget discussion as non political and tied to the new county budget. Stotlemire and Hay supported approving the original draft minutes.
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Andy Gassaway
Commission
Ed Taylor
Don Waymire
Fred Ferguson
Shaun Perry
Taylor
Shari
Waymire
Perry
Don Stottlemire
Don Hay
Draft versus approved: County budget changes noted
Franklin County Board minutes from June 30 show Shari Peng and Shaun Perry proposing a 2005 County Commissioners budget with an added 100000 for a County Administrator, contingent on petition certification and voter approval to adopt a County Administrator form of government, with six months to implement. Blaine Finch outlined a new 2005 Human Resources budget mirroring Miami Counties but trimmed padding.
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Human Resources Department
Perry
Shari Perry
Shari
Blaine Finch
Franklin County Board of Commissioners
Shari Peng
Stottiemire
Shaun Perry
Stottlemire
Shar Peng
Blaine
Miami
Arts Council leader Mary Anne Whiteford to retire
After 13 years with the Ottawa Community Arts Council, office administrator Mary Anne Whiteford retires on August 14. She has served as volunteer coordinator, board member and president, noting age and exhaustion and a need to spend time with her family, including a semi paralyzed daughter from a cerebral hemorrhage. Her tenure began in 1991, rebuilding volunteers and launching a downtown mural project to broaden arts support amid funding challenges reliance on memberships and last minute donations.
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Ottawa Community Arts Council
Mary Anne Whiteford
Whiteford
Council
Kansas Arts Commission
Arts Council
Jodie Krefft
The
Ottawa Herald
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