Word: chiarelli
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...Lieut. General Peter Chiarelli, commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, orders a preliminary investigation by Gregory Watt, an Army colonel in Baghdad...
March 19, 2006: Chiarelli assigns Major General Eldon Bargewell to investigate the Marines' reporting of information about the incident up the chain of command...
...longer seeking small-town havens. By basing themselves in urban areas, they are more anonymous and can be relatively certain that U.S. forces won't launch massive offensive assaults, as they did in Fallujah. "We can't get into a shooting war ... inside the city," says Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, which guards the Iraqi capital. The rebels' new tactics suggest that Marine Lieut. General John Sattler perhaps spoke too soon last week when he boasted that his troops had "broken the back of the insurgency" by rolling up its Fallujah sanctuary...
...military has been here before: caught in a conflict where the thing it does best--fighting--can't win the war. In Iraq today, brute force is a wasting asset, as Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, knows firsthand. On a hot late-summer day, his soldiers entered Baghdad's Sadr City slum to quell attacks from militiamen loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Chiarelli's troops came under fierce fire as dozens of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) pounded their vehicles, and roadside bombs blew the tracks off a tank. For four hours...
...these days even good intentions don't add up to much. Chiarelli last month had hoped to drain recruits from al-Sadr's Mahdi militia by hiring 15,000 Sadr City men to clean the district's filth-filled streets. When a truce between coalition forces and al-Sadr broke down, however, the work project collapsed. The state of the district helps explain, Chiarelli says, why "a guy in Sadr City feels there is no hope." There's sewage in his yard, he gets one hour of electricity out of six, and he has no job. "If someone offers...