Show NATIONWORLD The Silt lake Tribune Airstlikes hit Iraqi militants Ilt THE ASSOCIATED : : : : : : PRINS Senators examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal criticized the CIA on Thursday for failing to provide Army investigators with documents on unregistered "ghost detainees" At a hearing lawmakers indicated their frustration that Army generals who investigated the prison abuses couldn't put a specific figure on the number of ghost detainees and could only give a range of up to 100 detainees though they said it was more likely closer to two dozen "Ifs a very difficult question for us to answer Mr Chairman because we don't have the documentation" Gen Paul Kern Nine people including two children were reported hilted in an air strike in Fallujah against a house which the US command suspected of being used by allies of the Jordanian born terror nustermind Abu — WASHINGTON zones "no-go- PRESS Musab Zarqawi American and Iraqi troops also moved into Samarra for the first time in months The robust strikes came during a week in which nearly 20 American troops were killed — pushing the US military death toll in the Iraq campaign above 1000 — and claimed US forces neared defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan "The Americans in both countries are between two fires if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything" Ayman Zawahri Osama top deputy said on a videotape broadcast Thursday by President Bush received a National Security Council briefing on Iraq early Thursday from Gen John Abizaid US Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte and other top cificials White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to say what they told Bush of the surging violence In a statement the US command said military operations WASHINGTON fight with rebels in the breakaway republic Defense Minister Sergei lvanov reiterated that Russia might launch strikes against terrorist bases in other countries The statements came in a a sixth day of escalating rhetoric resentreflecting ment of criticism from the West concerning Russia's handling of the war that has raged in Chechnya on and off for 10 years The terror strike last week appears to have unleashed the frustrations of Russian leaders POST MOSCOW — Last week's attack on a Russian school has driven new wedges between Russia and the West in the fight against terrorism as Moscow continues to accuse the United States and European countries of cxd1ing Chechen separatists Sergei Foreign Minister Lavrov denounced the United States and Britain on Thursday for granting asylum to Chechen Opposition figures and told other countries to stay out of Russia's long-standin- g 1 -- -- 1 t - 7 ? 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