However, Mr Tenet said that up-to-date maps had later been found at the CIA, but were not consulted by the military planners. Nominating a target and planning to strike it, he said, were two different processes, and the CIA was not involved in the second. The error was ascribed to a failure in updating by the Pentagon’s mapping agency. Testifying before Congress about the most diplomatically costly mistake of the war, the head of the CIA, George Tenet, said that the building was thought to house a Yugoslav arms agency.

He’s the Orson Welles – no, the Marcel Duchamp – of contemporary jazz.. THE CHINESE embassy in Belgrade that was erroneously bombed during Nato’s Kosovo operation was the only target of the conflict that was nominated by the Central Intelligence Service, it was revealed yesterday. He followed this with “The Importance of Boiling Water” a silly Bonzo Dog- style about tea and “Ralph’s Trips”, a kind of psychedelic stride piano work-out.I’ve heard a few people express the opinion that Bates would be a world- beating musician if he didn’t clown around so much, if he made a serious bid for international jazz stardom, but I think they miss the point. The idea of Django as an undiluted, unsmiling genius would be impossible to swallow. “Singing In The Rain” for tenor horn was punctuated by dazzling right-hand piano figures and the intermittent pouring of mineral water into the horn’s bell so that the sound gurgled and distorted drunkenly. This number, scored for vibraphone, two marimbas and gyil (a Ghanaian xylophone), like the earlier “Shining Through” by Nick Hayes, revealed Ensemble Bash at their musicianly best.At their worst, they are more like the Incredible String Band in shiny three- piece suits and the much-touted collaboration with Bates covered all the extremes of originality and good and bad taste you might expect, including an indescribable version of Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” .Notwithstanding Trevor Watts’ triumphs over the perennially bad acoustics of the Purcell Room, some of the most extraordinary moments occurred during Bates’ solo set.

Underpinned by Colin McKenzie’s post-Pastorious fretless bass and modestly led by Watts’ soprano and alto saxophones, the kit drummer and four African percussionists stoked up a masterful, fiery performance as part of the London South Bank’s fifth annual Rhythm Sticks Festival.
The most striking demonstration of the moire effect came in the encore performance next door, when Ensemble Bash played a Simon Limbrick of a Fela Kuti tune, over which Django Bates improvised on tenor horn. You get this result in the systems music of Steve Reich and in African mbira (thumb piano) music but the drum orchestra, despite its battery of mbiras, delivers something much more meaty than mere shapes and patterns. THE TITLE of Trevor Watts’ mighty septet is a visual metaphor, derived from the complex shapes that result when simple repetitive patterns overlap and shift. He said: “If other staff are willing to come forward then the minority cannot survive. We need other staff to come forward and say this is not acceptable.”The director-general said the officers responsible had been based at a London jail other than Wormwood Scrubs at the time of the incident, but had since moved on.Speaking in Rugby at the inaugural conference of Unlock, the national association for ex-offenders, Mr Narey announced that he was appointing for the first time a senior manager to take control of all women’s prisons in England and Wales.He said he was concerned at the rapid increase in the women’s prison population to more than 3,000 and announced projects to help women obtain jobs on their release from jail.. The inmates were then subjected to a vicious assault.Mr Narey said: “I have written to them and offered my apologies It’s not good enough simply to settle out of court.

If we have fallen below the standards expected of us and officers have let down their colleagues I am not going to accept it.”He said the great majority of prison staff were compassionate people, but added: “A small minority are not and I will get rid of them.” Mr Narey said that the brutality had only been confirmed as a result of the testimony of other prison officers. When the prison van broke down, officers from London arrived to pick up the prisoners. There are believed to be at least two other current police inquiries into alleged brutality at other prisons in addition to the one revealed by the director-general yesterday.Mr Narey told The Independent that the settlement stemmed from an incident in 1995 when two prisoners were being transferred from Swaleside Prison in Kent to a jail in London. This came after a lengthy police investigation into complaints by around 80 former and serving inmates at the jail.The Wormwood Scrubs inquiry is continuing and further charges could result.