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...third-floor office at the Pentagon is a high-tech conference room where U.S. generals arrayed around the globe can talk to the Pentagon boss--and with his boss, if he happens to stop by. That is exactly what happened last week when Central Command chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting...
General John Abizaid likes to travel on the edge. He is riding in a Black Hawk helicopter as it tears across the skies of central Iraq, skimming treetops and flushing startled sheep out onto the grassy pastures beneath. As always, the general's entourage of three choppers is shadowed by Apache helicopter gunships, hunting for the hunters--the insurgents who may lurk below and would like nothing better than to shoot down another symbol of the American occupation. This one would be a particular prize: as the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, Abizaid is the Pentagon...
...Abizaid, as for his superiors in Washington, the effort to stabilize Iraq is job No. 1. The general has spent much of the past year trying to prevent the occupation from becoming an unwinnable quagmire--and that was before the prison-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib erupted in all its sordid horror. Now Abizaid and his men are racing against the clock, attempting to turn back the insurgency, soothe Iraqi outrage at the U.S. and bring the country enough security so that Iraqis can begin to take power after June 30, when a U.N.-anointed caretaker government steps in. Abizaid...
...pointing up. "The debate is about whether to keep 135,000 troops there or to add more," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Warning that tensions may only grow with the approach of June 30, the day the U.S. plans to return sovereignty to Iraq, General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command, told the New York Times that 135,000 may not suffice. "We're going to make sure we have the right forces in place to do the job that needs to be done," he said...
...dominated south, Iraqi police watched idly as members of al-Sadr's Medhi Army seized their buildings, weapons and vehicles. The inability or unwillingness of the Iraqis to help suppress the twin uprisings forced U.S. officials to admit publicly last week what many have assumed for months. General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), says Iraqi security forces won't be ready to assume control until September at the earliest...