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Desert Storm chief Schwarzkopf dies

General, 78, quiet on 2nd Iraq war

By RICHARD PYLE AND LOLITA C. BALDOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: December 28, 2012 at 1:38 a.m.

Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the later war against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.

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