Beau Biden Back for Inauguration

WASHINGTON - Vice President-elect Joe Biden's son is back from Iraq temporarily and will witness his father's swearing-in on Tuesday.

Lt. Col. Len Gratteri, a Delaware Army National Guard spokesman, says Capt. Beau Biden began a temporary assignment at the Pentagon on Thursday. Details about the assignment or how long it will last were not immediately available.

The assignment will allow Beau Biden to use personal leave time so the former attorney general of Delaware can see the inauguration of his father and President-elect Barack Obama.

After the inauguration, the younger Biden is scheduled to return to Iraq where his unit, the Delaware National Guard 261st Signal Brigade, is on duty.