Report Measures Shortfall in Iraq Goals
Shifting of Funds Blamed For Abandoned Projects
By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post
BAGHDAD, Jan. 26 -- The United States will not complete hundreds of basic water and electricity projects planned after the 2003 invasion because more than $3 billion was shifted to meet unanticipated security and other needs, according to a U.S. government audit of reconstruction spending in Iraq issued Thursday.
In polls and everyday conversations, Iraqis routinely describe the lack of basic services such as clean water and a steady supply of electricity as perhaps the biggest problem facing the war-ravaged country, ranking it alongside -- and often ahead of -- insecurity and persistent insurgent violence........
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602149.html
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