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...Baghdad Petraeus Hands Over the Keys General David Petraeus turns over control of U.S. troops in Iraq to his former deputy, Lieut. General Raymond Odierno, on Sept. 16. In July the Senate voted to promote Petraeus to head the military's Central Command, covering central Asia and the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Iraq. He assumes his new post this fall, filling the void left by Admiral William J. Fallon, who resigned in March over clashes with the Bush Administration...
Lieut. General Raymond Odierno He helped Petraeus implement the 2007 surge and will become a full general before taking the reins in Iraq...
General David Petraeus He'll try to repeat Iraq's drop in violence in Afghanistan, where the Taliban appears to be strengthening...
...Maliki, as ever, is building his own influence through his ability to perform a delicate balancing act between the contending forces on the ground - and, irksome as the fact may be to Washington, Iran is increasingly influential in post-Saddam Iraq. Al-Maliki's pushback against Washington in the SOFA talks is widely seen as in part a response to intense pressure from Tehran...
...They don't like to see Iraq in a good friendship with the United States," says Hammoud, who met with the Iranian foreign minister last week to allay Tehran's fears over the security agreement. "They think that the territory of Iraq will be the base for attacking Iran...