US military's sex scandal snares another Afghan war general
Widening fallout from the Petraeus affair has observers comparing Pentagon with Hollywood
The top US commander in Afghanistan is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman whose harassment complaint triggered the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus.
President Barack Obama has delayed General John Allen's nomination as Nato's supreme commander pending a probe by the Pentagon.
The probe came after the FBI handed over 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents to the Pentagon, most of them e-mails between Allen and Jill Kelley. Kelley is the Florida woman whose complaint to the FBI led to a probe that uncovered an affair between Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Allen denies acting inappropriately.
The shocking revelation came as the FBI searched Broadwell's North Carolina home last night and reports emerged that the agent Kelley initially contacted is under investigation by the internal affairs arm of the FBI after he sent his shirtless photos to her.
Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said Allen would remain commander in Afghanistan while the investigation was under way. But he wanted the Senate to act promptly on General Joseph Dunford's nomination to replace Allen in Afghanistan.
It was unclear how Allen knew Kelley, but he was stationed in Tampa as the deputy director of the US military's Central Command for the three years until he took over in Afghanistan last year. Petraeus was head of Central Command from 2008 to 2010.
