About 9,000 more soldiers will be trained by 2007 to join the 25,000 army members already on intelligence, Lieutenant General Keith Alexander told journalists.

The deputy chief of staff for army intelligence said the army was "not good at cultural awareness," in its information gathering.

"Between 70 and 90 percent of information is coming from human intelligence," in Iraq, he said, as opposed to information gathered through electronics, eavesdropping and satellites launched during the Cold War to detect troop movements and the like.