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Washington - After months of criticism over intelligence failures in the buildup to the war in Iraq, CIA director George Tenet resigned on Thursday for "personal reasons." U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters at the White House that he had accepted Tenet's resignation. Tenet has been at the head of the Central Intelligence Agency for seven years, making him the second-longest serving director. He will serve until some time in July, Bush said. "He's been a strong leader in the war on terror," Bush said of Tenet. Specifically, the CIA has been under fire for the assertions made by the United States about Saddam Hussein's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, and about his regime's links to al-Qaeda. London - The mother of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, died on Thursday after a long illness. Frances Shand Kydd died peacefully at her home in the morning, her son Earl Spencer said. She was 67. She married Johnnie Spencer, Earl of Northampton, in Westminster Abbey in 1954, in the presence of the Queen and Prince Philip. Colorado Springs, Colo. - President Bush likened the U.S.-led wars on terror and in Iraq to the Second World War and the Cold War. "The war on terror is civilization's fight. And, as in the struggles of the last century, civilized nations are waging this fight together," Bush told U.S. Air Force graduates Wednesday. "This is the great challenge of our time, the storm in which we fly."
