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Helped co-write the counterinsurgency manual of david petraeus. hes a deep thinker. the most interesting thing about the pick suggests david petraeus had a strong hand in sending him to centcom. mattis had been opposed in the past to the withdrawal timeline. in 2006 in august he said, "if we put a timeline on it, then the enemy knows exactly what we will do and will wait until the deadline comes." he was asked by an iraqi when he is going to leave iraq and he said -- ill read the quote. "i said ...

In august 30. right now the moratorium is lifted. all right, today there was news out of the pentagon. chiefly about the man who has been tapped to head up central command, general james maddis. here are comments he made that are coming back to haunt him today in 2005. >> shannon: lets bring in the panel to talk about this again. this is a general who was called "mad dog mattis." he is a marine. >> i am so untroubled by the comments i cant tell you. hes perfect for this. he has a representatio...

Not fill in the report. the good news is a number of the other advocacy groups have urged gays an lesbians to fill in the forms. weve organized it in a way to protect their privacy through a third party and its important that we hear from them as well as everybody else. but i think were satisfied that this is an important element of this effort and that its being done in a very professional way. >> the defense secretary in washington leading a press conference. theyre talking about the memo talk...

Petraeus was the head of centcom until he was tapped to head afghanistan. it was brought up, some controversial comments general mattis brought up in 2005. he made these comments during a panel discussion. actually, its quite fun to fight them. he was talking about over in iraq and afghanistan. its a held of a hoot, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience. its found shoot some people. ill be right up there with them. i like brawling. you go into afghanistan, you get guys wh...

Back to you, wolf. >> susan candiotti, stand by. well have a lot more on the breaking news, but a major spy swap now in the works. these ten alleged russian suspects. they all plead guilty right now in exchange for four individuals. three of whom convicted of espionage in russia. one other individual. well see how this plays out in the coming hours. stand by. well get more information. but lets get to the new pick for the u.s. military central command. the defense secretary robert gates not only...

Command. he graduated from central washington state university. hes also a graduate of the amphibious war school. this breaking news, again, just coming in. we want to listen into secretary gates. hes going to give us more information about this breaking story. >> i told my audiences the press is not the enemy and to treat it as such is counterproductive and self-defeating. accordingly in my approaches to media relations, i have attempted to be as straightforward and cooperative as possible and ...

In august 30. right now the moratorium is lifted. all right, today there was news out of the pentagon. chiefly about the man who has been tapped to head up central command, general james maddis. here are comments he made that are coming back to haunt him today in 2005. >> shannon: lets bring in the panel to talk about this again. this is a general who was called "mad dog mattis." he is a marine. >> i am so untroubled by the comments i cant tell you. hes perfect for this. he has a representatio...

Helped co-write the counterinsurgency manual of david petraeus. hes a deep thinker. the most interesting thing about the pick suggests david petraeus had a strong hand in sending him to centcom. mattis had been opposed in the past to the withdrawal timeline. in 2006 in august he said, "if we put a timeline on it, then the enemy knows exactly what we will do and will wait until the deadline comes." he was asked by an iraqi when he is going to leave iraq and he said -- ill read the quote. "i said ...

We only know about one for certain. and it may be that they wont tell us who the others are, that they dont want us to know that. i think its too soon to tell whether by the end of the day well know all of them or not. >> at least it is a developing story, thank you, pete. police busted an alleged al qaeda plot in norway. authorities say three suspects were plotting a terrorist attack in that country, using powerful portable bombs. the arrests come a day after u.s. officials said last years fa...

Foreign agents. one of them, a 28-year-old chapman is getting more attention than others. she has become the face of the group basically in the media with her pictures all over the tabloids. and officials in the russian country see a suicide bomber blew himself up in the capital, and three police officers and two civilians were wounded. >> militants stormed the entrance to a major airbase in afghanistan today, and security forces repelled the attack killing eight insurgents. attorney general hol...