It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Bangladesh has always been demanding an "apology for the 1971 genocide" from Pakistan. But the caretaker government headed by Muhammad Yunus has now diluted the stand, calling for a "resolution of the ...