U.S. Only Spent Small Part of Iraq Rebuilding Funds
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The United States has still only  spent a small portion of the $18.4 billion it set aside for  rebuilding Iraq, a new government report shows.
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The State Department finished an intensive review this week on how best to spend &#36;18.4 billion in U.S. aid to Iraq and may shift focus to smaller-scale projects, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Iraq's government has fulfilled only nine out of 18 benchmarks on governance and security, the US says.
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In 2002, the U.S. military predicted that by now a broadly representative government would be in place and as few as 5,000 U.S. troops would be in Iraq.
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The U.S. intervention in Iraq was  hampered early on by a lack of adequate forces and efforts to  contain looting after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, according  to the former U.S. administrator in Iraq.
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Roughly half of the money spent on all federal contracts in 2006 was awarded with little or no competition, according to a congressional report released yesterday.
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Iraq's struggling security forces  have had mixed results against a mounting insurgency and the  United States is examining if more funds are needed for this  nascent force, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
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The United States will accelerate the resettlement of about 7,000 Iraqis referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and will contribute $18 million to the agency's appeal for Iraq, about one-third of the total, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky said Wednesday.
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Iraq's neighbors want tens of billions of dollars for environmental damage done in the 1990-1 Gulf conflict, but are set to get only paltry funds from the United Nations, diplomats and U.N. sources said on Friday.
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In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.
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To hear officials in Washington tell it, the Bush administration was merely trying to support the burgeoning civil society in Ukraine when it funneled $57.8 million to the former Soviet republic over the last ...
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The 377 tons of Iraqi explosives whose reported disappearance has dominated the past few days of presidential campaigning represent only a tiny fraction of the vast quantities
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The U.S. government should have been   quicker to employ local firms to help rebuild Iraq instead of   relying on U.S. corporations whose contracts gave them no   incentive to minimize costs, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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Despite President Bush's promise to spend  $9 billion on reconstruction contracts in Iraq in the next  several months, administration and congressional officials said  on Thursday it could take more than a year to actually pay out  that much money for projects.
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The Pentagon has begun tapping into  its $25 billion emergency fund for the Iraq war to prepare for  a major troop rotation and intense fighting this fall,  administration officials said on Tuesday, despite the White  House's initial insistence that it had enough money.
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United States President George W Bush said on Wednesday the United States&#39; initial grant of $US35 million in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in South East Asia was &quot;only the beginning of our help&quot; but he did not announce an immediate increase in aid
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WASHINGTON -- Countries large and small mobilized yesterday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunamis that spread devastation across South and Southeast Asia, but international officials said the millions of dollars in short-term assistance pledged so far fall way short of the billions needed to address one of the worst natural disasters in memory.