Amid rationing, Iraqis face more shortages
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq is suffering a shortage of state-supplied wheat, sugar, and rice because of logistics and security problems, officials and traders said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- The effort to resurrect vital government services in Iraq has been hampered by ethnic and sectarian purges among the ranks of civil servants, a high turnover rate for senior administrative officials, and a lack of comprehensive planning on the part of both Iraqis and the United States, according to an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq ...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Relief agencies say Iraqi civilians trapped in Fallujah face disaster unless they get food, water and medicine quickly.
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Congress released statistics documenting shortages in armor for military transport trucks that ferry supplies across Iraq.
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An Army official said his command has not had enough trained people to properly oversee the giant logistical contract for food, housing and other services in Iraq and Kuwait.
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The Iraqis who signed up to help the Americans are losing faithâand often their lives. One family's story.
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Competing constituencies in Iraq have a greater stake in continuing chaos than in compromise, experts say.
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The escalating violence throughout Iraq poses a challenge to the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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Baghdad has been waiting for a month now &#151; waiting through a series of devastating bombings, through hundreds more deaths &#151; for the start of a third U.S.-Iraq security drive to stanch the sectarian bloodshed.
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The number of Iraqis who have fled their homes under threat of sectarian violence has more than doubled since the start of the year, despite the increase in American troops that began in February, a humanitarian organization said.
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The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the countryâs provinces in recent weeks.
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Tomato prices triple in the past two months as Baghdad families struggle to find work and keep shops open.
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The deterioratng Iraq situation is pushing both to look beyond their cabinets for solutions.
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Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.
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Pressure is rising to establish an Iraqi military capable of securing the country by January elections.
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The top US commander in Iraq complained to the Pentagon last winter that his supply situation was so poor that it threatened Army troops&#39; ability to fight, according to an official document that has surfaced only now.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq -- Inside the festival hall, on long tables covered with white cloth, Aboud Ahdim Abbas Mohammad saw a glimpse of the future: baskets filled with different kinds of ripe, delicious dates. They held the twin promise of reviving an ancient industry and Iraq's devastated economy.