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Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the security plans put in place by the U.S. commander in northern Iraq, Brig. Gen. Carter Ham.

''We have had a suicide bomber apparently strap something to his body and go into a dining hall. We know how difficult this is, to prevent people bent on suicide and stopping them,'' Myers said Wednesday at a Pentagon news conference. ''This was the insurgents that did this. * So it's not General Ham that attacked his dining hall.''

*This would have been a nice place to stop talking.