U.S. Revises Iraq Rebuilding Plan
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The United States is revising its $18.4 billion Iraq rebuilding plan and in a major policy shift will hand over some contracting power to Iraqi ministries for U.S.-funded work, said U.S. officials Tuesday.
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The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing to seek congressional approval to divert $3.3 billion earmarked to rebuild Iraq's shattered infrastructure into programs focused mainly to establish law and order.
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HOLLAND, Mich.  - Faced with mounting violence in  Iraq, the Bush administration plans on Tuesday to propose  shifting $3.46 billion from Iraqi water, power and other  reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil output  and prepare for elections scheduled for January.
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Developments in Iraq on Thursday:
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U.S.-funded reconstruction in Iraq is gaining pace in some areas, albeit on a smaller scale than hoped, despite mounting attacks and intimidation by insurgents, said a senior U.S. official on Wednesday.
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Surging violence in Iraq this month has  disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but  plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number  of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq American forces across Iraq are being repositioned to prepare for an assault on insurgents and for elections early next year.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, left, chats with Iraqi Minister of Planning Mahdi al-Hafidh, center, and Iraqi Minister of Electricity Ayham al-Samarrai, prior to the start of a 55-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors&#39; conference in Tokyo
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A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday.
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Provincial reconstruction teams, the civilian centerpiece of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, are making "incremental" progress in some areas and very little in others, a government auditor told Congress yesterday.
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U.S. military planners have begun work on a fallback strategy in case the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq fails, including a gradual pullout of U.S. forces and more emphasis on training and advising Iraqi forces, the Los Angeles Times reported in Monday's editions.
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WASHINGTON : The United States is to shift more than three billion dollars in aid to Iraq from reconstruction programs to largely beefing up security, US officials said as violence flaring over Iraq spiked in the past two weeks.
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In an effort to restore security in Baghdad, the U.S. military plans to move at least three more battalions of American soldiers into the Iraqi capital, a senior Pentagon official said.
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U.S. and Iraqi commanders said on Saturday there had been a remarkable improvement in the country's security over the past year, but the top American general also warned that the gains could be reversed.
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A Government Accountability Office report has found that  Iraq had spent much less of its reconstruction budget than what had previously been announced.
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The U.S. envoy to Iraq wants to  shift $3.3 billion set aside for Iraqi water, sewer, power and  other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil  output and create jobs, a U.S. official said on Monday.