delmarvanow.com - 8/20/2008
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DOVER Attorney General Beau Biden's National Guard unit received word it is being deployed overseas next month, leaving the Delaware Department of Justice without its top law enforcement officer for up to a year. Biden will be deployed to Iraq on Oct. 3 and be gone about a year, said Delaware National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Len Gratteri. Biden nor his staff returned repeated calls Tuesday ...
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Delaware AG Beau Biden is off to Iraq.
DELAWARE: AG (son of Sen. Joe) Biden going to Iraq with National Guard
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... Len Gratteri. Biden nor his staff returned repeated calls Tuesday night. His office said it has been preparing for the deployment since he received an "alert order" Feb. 1. Biden has said the department would run smoothly if he winds up having to serve abroad, adding that his senior staff can satisfy the Department of Justice's responsibilities. ... It was a year ago this week that Biden's father, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, announced his oldest son was preparing to head to Iraq. Read more: http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2...
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