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WASHINGTON -- A four-star Marine general known equally for blunt speech, combat prowess and understanding counterinsurgency warfare will be nominated to command American forces across the Middle East, officials said Thursday.

The debate over Iraq also resounded elsewhere on Capitol Hill, as senators attending the confirmation hearing for Adm. William J. Fallon, nominated to command American forces in the Middle East, heard his blunt assessment of the path ahead.

Eichelberger was nominated to command American forces in Operation Torch, and he was ordered to conduct training in amphibious warfare with the 3rd, 9th and 30th Infantry Divisions in Chesapeake Bay in cooperation with Rear Admiral Kent Hewitt.

Although nominated to command the Covenanter forces mustered to combat the invading forces of Oliver Cromwell, Leven had retired from field service.

It has about 1,800 employees and is headed by Adm. James O. Ellis Jr., who is expected to be nominated to head the new command.

WASHINGTON -- Computer networks essential to the Pentagon and military are attacked by individual hackers, criminal groups and nations hundreds of thousands of times every day, according to the officer nominated to lead a cyberwarfare command.

Three senior officers will also be nominated to take over the powerful regional combatant commands.

During the ANC's leadership nominations in preparation for the party's elective conference in Mangaung, Mr Motlanthe was the only person nominated to replace Mr Zuma - a sign of the respect he commands in sections of the party.

George Marshall decided that MacArthur would be awarded the Medal of Honor, a decoration for which he had twice previously been nominated, "to offset any propaganda by the enemy directed at his leaving his command".

David Barron, age forty-six, nominatod thethe First Circuit.

Earlier this month, he was nominated to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.