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Thursday, 07 August 2008
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Iraqi official defends spending, surplusRead Full Article
The News & Observer
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi lawmaker close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki defended the government's record on reconstruction spending, saying Thursday that U.S. critics of its multibillion dollar surplus were overlooking Baghdad's progress over the past three years. But a senior Iraqi official and a private Iraqi economic analyst both acknowledged that inefficiency and a cumbersome, inexperienced bureaucracy were still delaying many projects aimed at improving the lives of Iraq's 27 million people. A report Tuesday by the U.S. General Accounting Office predicted Iraq could finish the year with as...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left and Iran's Vice-President Parviz Davoodi, right, are seen after al-Maliki arrived at Mehrabad International airport in Tehran, Iran, Saturday June, 7, 2008.
photo: AP / ISNA/Forutan