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The involvement of members of the Uzbek group in militant training is particularly troubling, intelligence officials say, because of their expertise in explosives, and their use of women in suicide missions and of men who unwittingly drove car bombs.

In the last days of November, Israel's top military commanders called the Pentagon to discuss troubling intelligence that was showing up on satellite imagery: Syrian troops appeared to be mixing chemicals at two storage sites, probably the deadly nerve gas sarin, and filling dozens of 500-pounds bombs that could be loaded on airplanes.

WASHINGTON — In the last days of November, Israel's top military commanders called the Pentagon to discuss troubling intelligence that was showing up on satellite imagery: Syrian troops appeared to be mixing chemicals at two storage sites, probably the deadly nerve gas sarin, and filling dozens of 500-pounds bombs that could be loaded on airplanes.

During the Clinton years, there had been a constant flow of troubling intelligence reports on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, but most were in the context of worst-case analyses — what Iraq could do without adequate United Nations inspections — and included few, if any, reliable reports from agents inside the country.

More troubling intelligence came in the late nineties, when it was learned from sensitive sources that Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who directed the Pakistani nuclear program from the nineteen-seventies until his retirement, earlier this year, made at least one secret visit to an Iranian nuclear facility.

Another Pentagon official, Captain Jeff Davis, said they had acted on "troubling intelligence" having seen signs of mass graves being dug.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — At a closed-door briefing in mid-July, senior intelligence officials startled lawmakers with some troubling news.

Another troubling word is "theory".

The apparent link to Russian intelligence raises troubling implications for U.S. foreign relations and national security.

As tensions diminished in the spring of 1987, there was one very troubling legacy for the American intelligence community: studies showed that the main intelligence services for both sides — India's Research and Analysis Wing and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate — had exaggerated their reports to their senior leadership.

Moved only by generous, noble sentiments, she has a near angelic, that is, archetypically feminine, temperament - except for the troubling matter of her uncommon intelligence, her frankness, her want of "pliability".

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