Lahore, June 2 : The Pakistani Defence Minister Chaud

Washington, May 31 : A top U. S. intelligence official has predicted that the Bush administration would make little progress before leaving office on top national security priorities, including an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, political reconciliation in Iraq and keeping Iran from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

A regenerated al-Qaeda will remain the leading terrorism threat, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Donald M. Kerr said.

Pakistan's "inward" political focus and failure to control the tribal territories where al-Qaeda maintains a haven, he said, is "the number one thing we worry about."

Phoenix, May 28 : Former White House press secretary Scot McClellan has been critical of his one-time boss President George W Bush, saying that he was often found engaging in “self-deception” to justify his political ends.

In a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing, McClellan writes that the decision to invade Iraq was a “serious strategic blunder,” and yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the Bush White House made.