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10th December 2003, 00:58
Washington -- Two weeks ago, the Bush administration settled on an exit strategy for Iraq in which the United States committed itself to establishing Iraqi self-rule by next summer -- well ahead of its previous schedule and just as the presidential election season will be getting under way.
But the initial plan for that transfer of authority has unraveled, raising doubts about whether the June 30 deadline for ending the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad is still feasible.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGOM3CNT71.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/29/MNGOM3CNT71.DTL)
LONDON (AP) -- Nearly four out of five Iraqis have little or no confidence in occupying U.S. and British forces, but more than 40 percent said the fall of Saddam Hussein was the best thing that happened to them in the past year, according to a poll published Monday.
Initial findings from the study, conducted across Iraq between mid-October and mid-November, also showed that almost three-quarters of respondents lack confidence in the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsfl...&news&emergency (http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0729_BC_Iraq-Survey&&news&emergency)
A new body set up to monitor the use of Iraq's oil funds holds its first meeting at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
The International Advisory and Monitoring Board was established by the Security Council in a resolution passed in May this year.
Some critics have alleged that the money spent so far has been used more for the benefit of big US companies that have strong connections to the Bush administration, a charge that US officials have strenuously denied.
The monitoring board will include representatives of the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/3293425.stm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion worth of reconstruction contracts.
The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Wolfowitz memo, dated Friday and posted on a Pentagon web site Tuesday, says restricting contract bids "is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...1829EST0789.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/09/national1829EST0789.DTL)
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But the initial plan for that transfer of authority has unraveled, raising doubts about whether the June 30 deadline for ending the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad is still feasible.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGOM3CNT71.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/29/MNGOM3CNT71.DTL)
LONDON (AP) -- Nearly four out of five Iraqis have little or no confidence in occupying U.S. and British forces, but more than 40 percent said the fall of Saddam Hussein was the best thing that happened to them in the past year, according to a poll published Monday.
Initial findings from the study, conducted across Iraq between mid-October and mid-November, also showed that almost three-quarters of respondents lack confidence in the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsfl...&news&emergency (http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0729_BC_Iraq-Survey&&news&emergency)
A new body set up to monitor the use of Iraq's oil funds holds its first meeting at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
The International Advisory and Monitoring Board was established by the Security Council in a resolution passed in May this year.
Some critics have alleged that the money spent so far has been used more for the benefit of big US companies that have strong connections to the Bush administration, a charge that US officials have strenuously denied.
The monitoring board will include representatives of the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/3293425.stm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion worth of reconstruction contracts.
The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Wolfowitz memo, dated Friday and posted on a Pentagon web site Tuesday, says restricting contract bids "is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...1829EST0789.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/12/09/national1829EST0789.DTL)
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