IRAQI RESISTANCE

Guardian: 'We could lose this situation'
CIA says insurgents now 50,000 strong · Crisis talks over transfer of power

The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the
transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report
warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US
control.

The report, an "appraisal of situation" commissioned by the CIA
director, George Tenet, and written by the CIA station chief in Baghdad, said
that the insurgency was gaining ground among the population, and already
numbers in the tens of thousands.