Raymond Odirano, one of the leading US Army Generals during the war in Iraq, the former commander of the land forces, died of an oncological disease aged 67 years.
Edition The Hill writes that he commanded the units in Albania, Kuwait, Iraq and the United States. He also participated in the search and seizure of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2003. From 2008 to 2010, the coalition coalition was headed, and then American forces in Iraq. Until 2015, he served the headquarters of the land forces of the US Armed Forces.
General Eatherly was the commander of the 4th mechanized brigade, which captured Turkish soldiers in the north of Iraq in 2003. This incident caused tensions in relations between Turkey and the United States. At that time, the Turkish parliament did not adopt a draft resolution that allows the American troops to use the territory of Turkey to invade Iraq, which caused extreme discontent in Washington.
Anadolu reports that the brigade he headed was remembered by cruelty in relation to the Iraqis: the soldiers ejectionly forcefully evicted civilians from their homes, beaten, prisoners were placed in Prison Abu Grayb, where they were tortured.