By Al Pessin Pentagon 31 May 2007 The U.S. ground forces commander in Iraq says he might need more time to assess the impact of the new security plan, beyond the September assessment President Bush and the Congress are expecting. Lieutenant General R

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 26 April 2007 The top U.S. commander in Iraq says an Iraqi group affiliated with an elite Iranian force carried out an attack last year in which five U.S. soldiers were killed near the Iraqi town of Karbala. The statement by Gen

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 22 September 2009 The publication Monday of a secret assessment by the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has sparked a fresh round of debate about what the coalition strategy should be and how many troops are needed to

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U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus is surrounded by staff after appearing to pass out while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, 15 Jun 2010 The head of the U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus, bri

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 07 September 2007 A senior U.S. military officer is disputing reports in two major U.S. newspapers, which said Friday that the U.S. commander in Iraq may be willing to send several thousands of his troops home by January. VOA's

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 03 January 2008 The U.S. Defense Department says it is too soon to begin the next assessment of the troop surge and the new counterinsurgency strategy implemented in Iraq last year, and that the violence of the last two days doe

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