Time needed for post-Sept. 11 changes\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Enormous intelligence and law enforcement gaps that contributed to the Sept. 11 attacks are being filled, but it will take years for America to build the systems needed to effectively combat terrorists, the heads of the FBI and CIA said Wednesday.\nCIA Director George Tenet and FBI Director Robert Mueller went before the commission investigating the 2001 hijackings after the panel's staff released statements harshly criticizing the CIA for failing to fully appreciate the threat posed by al Qaeda prior to Sept. 11 and questioning the FBI's reorganization efforts.\n"It was a damning report of a system that's broken, that doesn't function," said commission member John Lehman, a former Navy secretary, referring to flaws found in the intelligence system.\nTenet, making his second appearance before the commission in three weeks, said in the 1990s the CIA lost 25 percent of its personnel, was not hiring new analysts and faced disarray in its training of clandestine officers who work overseas to penetrate terror cells and recruit secret informants.
UW student charged with faking abduction\nMADISON, Wis. -- A college student accused of faking her own kidnapping last month was charged Wednesday with lying to police in what they suggested was a desperate attempt to get her boyfriend's attention. Audrey Seiler, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of obstructing officers. Each charge carries up to nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.\nSeiler disappeared from her off-campus apartment March 27 without her coat or purse. She was discovered curled in a fetal position in a marsh four days later, and told police a man had abducted her at knifepoint.\nPolice concluded Seiler made up the story after obtaining a store videotape that showed her buying the knife, duct tape, rope and cold medicine she claimed her abductor used to restrain her. Seiler confessed after she was confronted with the tape, according to authorities.
Girl, 5, found a week after car crash\nLOS ANGELES -- A 5-year-old girl found in a ravine survived on dry noodles and Gatorade while remaining near her dead mother following a car crash more than a week ago, relatives and authorities said.\nThe girl, apparently uninjured, was identified as Ruby Bustamante, the daughter of Norma Bustamante, 26, of Indio, Los Angeles, said Jane Evans, nursing supervisor at Riverside Regional Medical Center. They were reported missing April 4.\nCalifornia Department of Transportation workers repairing a road barrier Tuesday morning found the girl, her mother's body and a wrecked Ford Taurus 150 feet down a ravine off the 60 Freeway between Moreno Valley and the Banning Pass, said Chris Blondon, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.\nThe car had crashed about 10 days ago, and the girl was hungry and thirsty, but unhurt, Blondon said in a statement.
