Bush Warned About Problems Now Faced In Iraq

AP KATHERINE SHRADER May 25, 2007 02:30 PM


U.S. intelligence analysts predicted, in two papers widely circulated before the 2003 Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see U.S. military action as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to shape the post-Saddam era.
The top analysts in government also said that establishing a stable democracy in Iraq would be a long, turbulent challenge.


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Intel report predicted postwar chaos