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President Barack Obama expressed “faith” in General John Allen despite a recent report involving the high ranking general in a “flirtatious” email exchange with a Florida socialite. According to a spokesperson for Obama, the newly re-elected president “thinks very highly of Gen. Allen and his service to (the US), as well as the job he has done in Afghanistan.” Allen served as deputy commander to General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who resigned this weekend after the FBI uncovered his extramarital affair with biographer. Allen was appointed Supreme Allied Commander of Nato forces in Europe but his confirmation hearing initially set for this Thursday has been put on hold. Gen Allen who currently leads 68,000 troops in Afghanistan says he has done nothing wrong.
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