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| David Petraeus CIA scandal engulfs US Gen John Allen | |
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| The Pentagon is investigating the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, for sending potentially "inappropriate" emails to a woman linked to ex-CIA director David Petraeus, officials say. | |
| The FBI is investigating communications from Gen Allen to Jill Kelley, who is said to have been threatened by Gen Petraeus' ex-mistress, Paula Broadwell. | |
| Gen Allen denies any wrongdoing. | |
| David Petraeus resigned on Friday over his affair with Mrs Broadwell. | |
| Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says the FBI referred the matter to the Pentagon on Sunday. | Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says the FBI referred the matter to the Pentagon on Sunday. |
| Gen Allen will remain in his job, but Mr Panetta said in a statement that he had asked for the general's pending nomination as Nato's supreme allied commander in Europe to be delayed. | |
| President Barack Obama had agreed to the postponement, the statement said. | |
| Mr Panetta ordered a Pentagon investigation of Gen Allen on Monday, and said he requested that the US Senate Armed Services Committee move promptly on the nomination for Gen Allen's successor in Afghanistan, Gen Joseph Dunford. | |
| Gen Allen was due to face href="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/b_three_sections_with_teasers/committee_hearings.htm" >a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. If approved, as had been widely expected, he was expected to take up his Nato appointment in early 2013. | |
| Mr Panetta praised the general's work in Afghanistan, saying his leadership had been "instrumental" in securing progress in the war against Taliban insurgents. | |
| Email exchanges | |
| Gen Allen is said to have sent the emails to Jill Kelley, a married socialite from Tampa, Florida. She had already been named in the Petraeus scandal after she told the FBI she had received anonymous harassing emails. | Gen Allen is said to have sent the emails to Jill Kelley, a married socialite from Tampa, Florida. She had already been named in the Petraeus scandal after she told the FBI she had received anonymous harassing emails. |
| Mrs Kelley is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Mr Petraeus had an extramarital affair. | Mrs Kelley is said to have received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Mr Petraeus had an extramarital affair. |
| It was during that investigation that the affair between Mrs Broadwell and David Petraeus was discovered. | |
| Mrs Kelley has been described as an unpaid social liaison at the MacDill Air Force Base based in Tampa, Florida, which is headquarters of the US Central Command. | |
| A senior Pentagon official said up to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents from Gen Allen's communications with Mrs Kelley between 2010 and 2012 were under review by the Pentagon. | A senior Pentagon official said up to 30,000 pages of emails and other documents from Gen Allen's communications with Mrs Kelley between 2010 and 2012 were under review by the Pentagon. |
| Gen Allen, a four-star Marine general, succeeded Gen Petraeus as the top American commander in Afghanistan in July 2011. | |
| He was deputy commander of Central Command before taking over in Afghanistan. He is also a veteran of the Iraq war. | |
| Mr Petraeus's affair with Mrs Broadwell began following his retirement from the army and about two months after he became director of the CIA. He said it ended about four months ago. | |
| Mr Petraeus joined the CIA in September 2011 after heading international forces in Iraq and later in Afghanistan. |