Israel's Army Radio said there had been no intelligence indications that Palestinians were planning to shell Sharon's funeral.
"There are strong intelligence indications, however, that some players are vulnerable to corrupt approaches and there are people outside tennis who seek to corrupt those within the sport," the review said.
But all Westerners in Afghanistan have been warned to take extra safety precautions in light of intelligence indications that Taliban and Al Qaeda loyalists may launch terrorist strikes against Western targets, perhaps in the form of car or truck bombings or kidnappings.
Mr. Steinberg is to lead the American team at those meetings; the group will include Stuart Levey, the Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, an indication that economic measures will be a significant part of the discussions.
In the absence of actual war, the most immediate of intelligence is called "indications and warning," or I&W.
Even so, Israeli military intelligence had advance indication that an attack was imminent and responded swiftly when it was launched, thwarting an extremely serious incident, according to the defence minister, Ehud Barak.
The revelation that Washington is prepared to release new intelligence is an indication that Mr. Bush is working to keep up the pressure on Iraq even as he heads off to Camp David, where he will stay from Saturday until the day after Christmas, before going to his Texas ranch for 10 days.
The committee's Republicans, led by Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, wrote to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, saying there were indications of "significant intelligence and intelligence sharing failures that must be reviewed and addressed immediately".
They'll also know when these indicators of intelligence aren't actually an indication of intelligence at all.
Military intelligence picked up specific indications that the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq, one of the more maleficent Shiite militant groups, has set a goal of kidnapping American service personnel made vulnerable by the withdrawal.
And Brian Hare, of the Max-Planck Institute of EvoLeipzigry Antheopology in Leipzig, the same institute where the work with Rico was done (by other scientists), said high levels of training were not necessarily indications of intelligence.
