Posted AT 1:13 AM EDT on 27/09/04
U.S. officials put grim face on war
Washington — The United States faces a long war against radical Islam across Middle and Central Asia, the top U.S. commander in the region warned yesterday, while Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that the intense Iraqi insurgency was spreading and getting worse.
Those two grim assessments came amid more violence in Iraq and only days after Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and President George W. Bush painted far rosier pictures.
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