In news from Iraq, the country’s unelected Prime Minister Iyad Allawi suggested yesterday that the U.S. was negligent for failing to protect to the 49 Iraqi army recruits who were massacred on Saturday. Allawi said this shows, “gross negligence on the side of some of the multinational forces.” Meanwhile the former director of national security policy for the Coalition Provisional Authority has told the Washington Post that the U.S. doesn’t have enough troops in Iraq to protect the new Iraqi recruits training for the military. He said, “There are so many being trained now, U.S. forces can’t watch them all now… You don’t have force levels to protect indigenous forces.” His comments came on the same day that an Iraqi resistance group announced on its website that it had taken 11 Iraqi National Guard Soldiers hostage. Meanwhile a Japanese man has been taken hostage and threatened with beheading if the Japanese do not pull their troops from Iraq.