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By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 8) -- Here's one place with plenty of job openings: the "E" Ring of the Pentagon. In the next several months, the secretary of defense and four of the six uniformed members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are expected to retire. This kind of mass exodus of military brass is "virtually unheard of," said John Ullyot, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the Senate Armed Services Committee. "It's very rare to have so many service chiefs up" all at once, he said. "Even in peacetime this would be a lot of turnover, a lot of change for the biggest part of the ...
Florida Pastor Determined to Carry Out Quran Burning
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- A Florida pastor planning a Quran-burning rally on Saturday's 9/11 anniversary came under more pressure today to drop it from White House and religious and military leaders, but the Rev. Terry Jones says he isn't backing down. Jones did get qualified support from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has backed a planned Islamic center two blocks from New York's ground zero. Bloomberg said that while he would find Jones' demonstration "distasteful," the Florida preacher has the right to freedom of expression. John Raoux, AP The Rev. Terry Jones vowed to go ahead with plans to ...
Odierno: US Combat Role in Iraq Unlikely to Resume
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 22) -- It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the U.S. to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final U.S. fighting forces prepared to leave the country. With a major military milestone in sight, Gen. Ray Odierno said in interviews broadcast Sunday that any resumption of combat duties by American forces is unlikely. "We don't see that happening," Odierno said. The Iraqi security forces have been doing "so well for so long now that we really believe we're beyond that point." President Barack Obama plans a ...
Top US General in Iraq Uses Facebook to Fight Impostors
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 21) -- The top U.S. general in Iraq says he's using his Facebook page to combat scammers who have impersonated him online. Army Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told reporters at a breakfast today in Washington, D.C., that there are four or five sites that have used his picture to ask people to send money. And some people actually did, according to Odierno. "It's the dangest thing I ever saw," he said. Facebook This is a screenshot from U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno's real Facebook page. Odierno told reporters at a breakfast meeting on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., ...
Joint U.S.-Iraq Commando Missions Kill Most al-Qaeda Leaders
By David Wood - Politics DailyU.S. and Iraqi commandos have recently killed or captured 34 of the 42 top leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq, crushing the radical Islamist organization responsible for the country's bloodiest violence. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said joint U.S.-Iraqi commando raids over the past 90 days had significantly hampered al-Qaeda's avowed goal of collapsing the Iraqi government and establishing an Islamic caliphate. Toward that end, al-Qaeda in Iraq -- an offshoot of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization -- had rampaged across Iraq, sowing terror and destruction with suicide ...
Twitter, Facebook Banned by Marines on Military Network
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe U.S. Marine Corps on Monday banned social media Web sites Facebook, Twitter and MySpace from its computer networks. ...
U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, But the War Goes On
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe war in Iraq is not over, and the troops are not coming home any time soon. ...
Petraeus Nominated to CENTCOM Command
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush, on recommendations from defense Secretary Robert Gates, has nominated Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus (center) to be the next head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). The post is a promotion for the four-star general, and would place him in charge of all U.S. military activity in the Middle East, Eastern Africa from Egypt down to Kenya, and Central Asia north to Kazakhstan and as far east as the Chinese border. The move will place Petraeus in command of all U.S forces currently on active station in the war on terror. The president also nominated Lt. General Ray Odierno ...
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