Controversial new US intelligence reports say the war in Afghanistan cannot be won unless Pakistan roots out militants on its side of the border, according to officials.

The head of the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency, Mohamed ElBaradei today criticised the US for not giving his organisation intelligence information sooner on what Washington says was a nuclear reactor in Syria.

CIA director Porter Goss resigned suddenly, nudged out after a turmoil-filled 18 months at the spy agency as it struggled to forge a new identity in an era of intelligence blunders and government overhauls.

The man given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction delivers his initial findings tomorrow and is expected to say that Iraq’s threat to launch chemical or biological attacks may have been a bluff.

A TOP US State Department expert on chemical and biological weapons told congressional investigators he had been pressured to change his analysis of intelligence on Iraq and other issues, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing unnamed congressional officials.