- Surname pronounced Pe-TRAY-us. Son of a Dutch immigrant.
- Commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq ( January 26, 2007, to September 16, 2008).
- The General's office is located inside the former Republican Palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's green zone. Petraeus shares the palace section with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
- Commander of ISAF-Afghanistan (June 30, 2010 to 2011).
- Commander of United States Central Command (September 16, 2008, to June 30, 2010).
- Appointed by President Barack Obama as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in April of 2011, he resigned in November of 2012 after an FBI investigation disclosed that the married Petraeus had been having an affair for almost a year with a woman--Paula Broadwell, a former army officer--who had written his biography.
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