• The team of about 10 military officials will be led by Major-General John McColl.

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  • But the Nato commander in Helmand Major-General Richard Mills, was bullish in his analysis of the war.

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  • Major-General Henry Osman showed a video which he said showed bomb damage on surface-to-air missiles site near Kandahar.

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  • Some 1, 500 Indian troops provide the largest contingent in the force which is led by Major-General Rajender Singh.

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  • Both Mr Schlesinger and Major-General Fay blame the abuse on the confusion following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

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  • Mr Bakhit is a retired army major-general who served as Jordan's prime minister from 2005 until his resignation in 2007.

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  • Major-General Tav Kong, the recently installed commander of the military region that covers the densely forested province, says things have changed.

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  • Major-General Peter Jacobs, head of police operations in the Western Cape, says the army is not trained to deal with gangs.

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  • He greets Major-General Craig Weston, a craggy American commander, as his dearest friend when the two meet for a chat over tea.

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  • Gen Khalouf, identified variously as a brigadier-general and a major-general, was shown sitting beside his son, said to be an army captain.

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  • By the end of January, meanwhile, Major-General Antonio Taguba was appointed to conduct his separate "administrative" probe of procedures at Abu Ghraib.

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  • On Tuesday, the congressmen grilled Major-General Antonio Taguba, the military's chief investigator into the affair, and Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon's undersecretary for intelligence.

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  • His credibility has also suffered from the business dealings of his brother, Major-General Salim Saleh, who is in charge of operations in Congo.

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  • So Mr Gates announced he would replace the Pentagon's manager in charge of the programme, Major-General David Heinz, a two-star general, with a three-star officer.

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  • Earlier this month, Mr Museveni promoted Major-General James Kazini, the officer Rwanda blames for the fighting at Kisangani, to the top post in the Ugandan army.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda and Rwanda

  • Uganda's president dismissed his army commander, Major-General James Kazini .

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  • The regional commander, Major-General Adam Damiri, has given his approval to any of his soldiers who want to fight with the paramilitaries, so long as they take off their uniforms.

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  • Major-General Jayant Varma, head of the North Indian office of international consultants Knight Frank, says that much action has already been taken since Delhi won the right to host the games.

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  • Major-General Sebastian Roberts, General Officer Commanding for London District, said soldiers would welcome the move to Woolwich as it will mean a better quality of life for them and their families.

    BBC: An MoD spokesman said Chelsea Barracks was a 1960s eyesore

  • And Army Secretary Togo West announced in November that a retired Army major-general would be recalled from retirement to head a military-civilian panel looking into allegations of sexual abuse in the U.S. military.

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  • The Syrian Foreign Ministry summoned Major-General Iqbal Singh Singha, the head of mission and force commander for United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights, to complain about the Israeli violation.

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  • Major-General Patrick Cordingley, who commanded a British armoured brigade during the Gulf War, told a meeting in London recently that Saddam Hussein faced "inevitable consequences" if he did not allow the weapons inspectors in.

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  • Major-General Martin White now occupies the role.

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  • Major-General Antonio Taguba, the man charged with investigating the abuses, told the Senate that he had found no evidence that the abuse was based on orders from high-ranking officers or involved a deliberate policy of softening up prisoners.

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  • Its report, released in mid-April, is extraordinarily detailed, naming Major-General Salim Saleh, the brother of Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, among the senior Ugandan and Rwandan commanders whom it accuses of stealing diamonds, gold, coltan (a mineral), timber and ivory.

    ECONOMIST: Congo

  • At a seminar in Abu Dhabi this week, Major-General Patrick Cordingley, a Briton who commanded a brigade in the Gulf war, maintained that Gulf security was still threatened by potentially hostile neighbours (read Iraq and Iran), ballistic missiles, lethal agents like poison gas, and internal unrest.

    ECONOMIST: The Gulf

  • Seizing the opportunity provided by Dr Fox's plans for decentralisation, General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, asked Major-General Nick Carter, a former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the director-general of land warfare, to carry out a review that would shape the army of the future.

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  • My guests are Captain Rosemary Mariner, retired Navy captain and former Navy aviator, and General Kathy Frost is a retired two-star major general.

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  • The VIP guest list was headed by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon, High Commissioners of eight Commonwealth countries, Chief Scout George Purdy, Scout Association vice-president Major General Michael Walsh and Welsh Scout Council president William Legge-Bourke.

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  • The Toshiba-led consortium that backs HD DVD had only one of the major studios -- General Electric Co.

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