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General fired over views on Karzai

Criticized leader in Web interview

New York Times / November 6, 2011

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A senior U.S. general stationed in Afghanistan has been fired for criticizing President Hamid Karzai in a published interview. The NATO and U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John R. Allen, announced in a news release yesterday that he was dismissing Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller, the deputy commander for programs at the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, effective immediately.

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