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November 21 2009

Sigalonbandf
06:12

NYT: U.S. fears Iraq projects will go to waste

An Iraqi worker at a new water treatment plant in Baghdad's Sadr City. The $65 million plant is meant to provide water for 200,000 people — just a tenth of the population of the vast slum on Baghdad's eastern ouskirts. The U.S. has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq, but Iraqis' inability to maintain what's left behind could waste hundreds of millions of dollars and jeopardize basic services.




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