سانچہ:In the news
- The Pentagon confirms a report in the New York Times that CIA chief George Tenet - who steps down from the post next month - was allowed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have an Iraqi prisoner secretly detained in another violation of the Geneva Convention.
- EU leaders meet in Brussels to try to agree on the draft European constitution amid the showing of popular discontent with national governments in the recent European Parliament election.
- Notorious kidnapper and rapist Marc Dutroux is found guilty of murder by a Belgian jury.
- In a preliminary report, the 9-11 Commission fails to find any ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and his government, and reveals that the terrorist group had planned a "more spectacular" attack using ten airplanes.