The president's comments come two days after a sergeant was accused of filming women in the showers at the US military academy at West Point, the latest in a series of such incidents.

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Don is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his Ph.

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The compound in Abbottabad is about a kilometre from the Pakistan Military Academy - the country's equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst.

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The Pakistan Military Academy is the country's top training centre, the equivalent of West Point in the US or Britain's Sandhurst.

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Some time later I went to the West Point military academy where President Bush enunciated his new doctrine of pre-emptive intervention.

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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point military academy in New York has obtained a passport of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed issued in 1990 in Moroni and renewed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1996.

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And the sorts of events CAIR has lately insisted he must not address include prayer sessions convened by the mayor of Ocean City, Maryland and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

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Margaret Stock, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves who teaches immigration law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, said she believes there should be an overall policy dealing with the potential deportation of family members of active duty military members.

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