--- A top-secret CIA intelligence report warns about growing numbers of Iraqis concluding the coalition can be defeated and supporting the resistance. The CIA report also cautions that more aggressive Counterinsurgency Tactic s will induce other Iraqis to join the resistance. '' Slate Magazine '' notes the new anti-insurgency measures in "postwar Iraq" means the situation is "Iraq War – Phase II." {Link without Title}
---In response to a leaked report, Paul Bremer says that terrorists "are trying to encourage the Iraqi people to believe that the United States is not going to stay the course". The CIA report says that the incipient insurgency is deep rooted, growing rapidly and not confined to ex- Baathists . {Link without Title}{Link without Title}
--- President Bush and senior advisers meet in Washington to determine how to move forward in Iraq, given the slow progress of the Iraqi Governing Council and the deteriorating political situation as outlined in the CIA report. {Link without Title}
The Peru vian Congress approves more charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori , alleging he trafficked arms to Colombia n guerrillas, sanctioned torture, was responsible for the disappearance of student activists, and mismanaged millions of dollars from Japanese charities to build schools for poor children in Peru, with an unexplained $2.3 million shortfall in funds received, among other irregularities.
