Schumer, live from Baghdad
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- December
- 31
In a news conference via telephone from Iraq today, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said he’d been making the rounds with troops, military and other leaders, and David Petraeus, commanding general of the multinational force in Iraq. He would not answer any policy questions about the war, saying he was there to wish the troops a happy new year.
“I’m very impressed with the morale,� Schumer said. “The morale is high.�
Schumer, who is on the first day of his trip to Iraq, said he also visited a local market, where he wore a bulletproof vest and helmet and was guarded by 30 armed soldiers. His office would not disclose how long the senator would be in Iraq, citing security reasons.
—From Dan Osburn, GNS Albany bureau
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
