US intelligence services are drawing up a secret watch-list of 25 countries in which instability might
lead to US intervention, according to officials in charge of a new office set up to co-ordinate planning for nation-building
and conflict prevention.
The list will be composed and revised every six months by the National Intelligence Council,
which collates intelligence for strategic planning, according to Carlos Pascual, head of the newly formed office of reconstruction
and stabilisation.
The above is the beginning of a report by the Financial Times, published on March 28, 2005 and posted in our
section Future Agenda.
Using different sources we also have tried to make up a list of possible targets - we have no way of
knowing if our list is similar to the actual one but we do hope that we will never have to add another country to our
section "Current Wars".
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