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Abizaid appointment to head US Centcom stirs pride in Lebanon
The appointment of Lebanese-American General John Abizaid to head up the US military Central Command (Centcom) has stirred a sense of pride back in his ancestral home of Lebanon.Abizaid, a Middle East expert fluent in Arabic, replaced Tommy Franks on Monday as military commander of US forces in a vast region that includes Iraq and Afghanistan. Abizaid, a 1973 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, is an expert in Arabic affairs with a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University. From 1978 to 1980, Abizaid took Arabic studies and history at Amman university and he was a member of a UN observers' mission in Lebanon. Seems like a bit a PR pop for US Army in Lebanon maybe the ME If Gen Abizaid speaks fluent Arabic then I wonder if he knows how to tell our "allies" where the bear sh!ts. Posted by: Domingo 2003-07-08 |
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