CHANGING TROOPS IN IRAQ
LTG Ricardo Sanchez (L), Iraqi General Amer Bkar Hashemi and LTG Thomas F. Metz (R) salute during the Combined Joint Task Force-Seven inactivation on May 15, 2004 in Baghdad. The new Multi-National Force-Iraq will be in the charge of LTG Sanchez. (UPI Photo/Hugo Infante)
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SAN ANTONIO, May 11 (UPI) -- Ricardo Sanchez, a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, filed papers Wednesday to run for the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.
WASHINGTON, April 18 (UPI) -- Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, a former commander in Iraq, may run for the U.S. Senate on Texas next year as a Democrat, party officials said Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A retired U.S. general who once led U.S. forces in Iraq was fired as a "military mentor" after criticizing war policy in 2007, USA Today reported Tuesday.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 1 (UPI) -- Lawyers for a pair of Florida killers sentenced to death in the slaying of two children, who died along with their parents, say they will appeal the sentence.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in West Palm Beach, Fla., say they'll use fingerprints found on a turnpike toll card to link two men to the slayings of a family of four.
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors.
UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 3, 2008.
Shabab Al Iraq newspaper in a front-page editorial by Ali al-Tuaimaat Monday accused U.S. forces of abuses against Iraqi civilians.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Statements that the situation in Iraq seems to be improving, despite daily car bombs, attacks against coalition forces and continued slaughter of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, are reminiscent of the “Five o’clock follies,” the daily briefings given by the U.S. military command in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Republicans are angry with disparaging remarks the retired former military commander in Iraq made about political accountability.
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