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John Abizaid - Former commander of the U.S. Central Command retired Gen. John Abizaid testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew," on Capitol Hill in Washington on August 1, 2007. Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player, was killed on April 22, 2004 in a "friendly fire" incident while serving in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan.   (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
John Abizaid - Former commander of the U.S. Central Command retired Gen. John Abizaid testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew," on Capitol Hill in Washington on August 1, 2007. Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player, was killed on April 22, 2004 in a "friendly fire" incident while serving in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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HOUSE COMMITTEE EXAMINES TILLMAN FRATRICIDE IN WASHINGTON
Former commander of the U.S. Central Command retired Gen. John Abizaid testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew," on Capitol Hill in Washington on August 1, 2007. Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player, was killed on April 22, 2004 in a "friendly fire" incident while serving in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan.
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Walker's World: Which Iran is in charge?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Iran ignores the latest deadline on suspending nuclear enrichment, but speaks of "common ground" and "a new start" with the United States. But Iranians may be just as confused about U.S. policy.

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UPI Almanac for Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008.

Analysis: Report fans Iran attack fears

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have denied claims that U.S. Special Forces are already operating across the Iraqi border in Iran, but Seymour Hersh's claim that senior U.S. generals are opposing American airstrikes against Iran reflects very real divisions in the Pentagon and the Bush administration.

Commentary: Suez and Hungary redux

WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- The Hungarian Revolution and the Suez crisis were two of the most dramatic upheavals in international affairs in the post-World War II era. If Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities while President Bush is still the commander in chief, China and Russia might be tempted to take a page out of the old Soviet geopolitical playbook.

Commentary: Fox Fallon's fall

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The abrupt resignation of Middle Eastern commander Adm. William J. "Fox" Fallon over a controversial interview and profile in Esquire magazine was a carefully choreographed exit for the 63-year-old Navy aviator. The first Navy man appointed to head the Central Command, which stretches from the Middle East to South Asia and includes Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, he is now one of three former Centcom commanders who are opposed to bombing Iran's nuclear facilities if the mullahs keep on trucking their nuclear weapon ambitions.

The almanac

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007.

Commentary: Time for smart power

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Why did President Bush raise the specter of World War III on Oct. 3 when he had known for at least six months what the gist of the National Intelligence Estimate would say? The key questions for talking heads on television programs are what did the president know and when did he know it?

Commentary: Know your enemy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- “I very much fear the risk of civil war” was the gist of the e-mail UPI received from Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani leader now under house arrest.

Commentary: Al-Qaida on the run?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Osama Bin Laden “is a man on the run, from a cave, who’s virtually impotent other than the tapes” he releases from time to time. That was the mid-September assessment of Frances Fragos Townsend, top adviser to President Bush on homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism. A former assistant commandant of the Coast Guard for intelligence, Townsend was also a counsel to the attorney general for intelligence policy. The best and the brightest in the Bush White House, she served as deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism before her elevation to czar (or czarina) for transnational terrorism.

Commentary: Networked and lethal

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who once denied the World War II holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews ever took place, has had his wings clipped by his superiors. Iran’s most-popular television series tells the story of an Iranian diplomat based in Paris in 1940 who falls in love with a French Jew and then helps her and some 500 other Jews escape to what was then Palestine, with forged Iranian passports.
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