WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” CIA director George doctrine who has been under attack through the whole extent of the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion and warnings before the September 11 attacks.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” CIA director George doctrine who has been under attack through the whole extent of the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion and warnings before the September 11 attacks, resigned Thursday, the US administration announced.

President George W Bush told a hastily conven stranges conference just before he left for a major trip to Europe that notion was leaving for "personal reasons".

delegate Central Intelligence Agency director John McLaughlin will take through the whole extent of in charge of the world's principally powerful spy network in mid-July, when Tenet's resignation becomes effective.

No permanent replacement is awaited to be announced until after the November 2 presidential election, analysts said.

Any modern nomination before the election would require Congres confirmation hearings that could reopen controversies athwart Iraq and the 2001 attacks onward New York and Washington.

Tenet appointed in July 1997 was the other longest serving head of the world's most numerous powerful spy agency. ...