Pentagon meddling crippled post-war humanitarian aid for Iraq: US experts
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Interference by the Pentagon delivered a massive blow to efforts to provide humanitarian relief for Iraq after last year's war, according to two US aid experts who struggled with the conflict's chaotic aftermath.
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Frictions between US diplomats and military officials add to on-the-ground woes as surge begins.
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WASHINGTON -- Fledgling US-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, the State Department said yesterday,
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The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said Thursday.
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The Pentagon death toll in Iraq has reached at least 1,002 nearly 18 months after the US-led invasion, as the brazen abduction of two Italian women aid workers in central Baghdad sparked a new hostage crisis.
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Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on  Tuesday that "major neglect" by its American-led allies led to  a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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Millions of dollars in U.S. aid intended for Iraqi police training programs may have been lost because of poor contract oversight, a State Department watchdog agency said in a report.
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The former US civilian administrator in Iraq says the United States &quot;paid a big price&quot; for not having enough troops on the ground after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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The Pentagon tries to deflect charges that there were not enough troops on the ground at the time of the Iraq invasion.
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The U.S. has paid out millions to help Iraqis rebuild their war-damaged homes. But cash is limited and the process can be slow
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The US 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 US administrator in Iraq.
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The Pentagon has steadily tightened its grip over U.S. aid and foreign policy in recent years. Now, the Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to pry it loose.
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The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool
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WASHINGTON -- The increasing vulnerability of US helicopters ferrying troops and supplies could slow and potentially jeopardize the military's expanded mission to secure Baghdad, military officials said yesterday.
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US lawmakers Wednesday criticized the Bush administration for not doing enough to move forward on reconstruction projects in Iraq.
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The Pentagon has begun tapping 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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Training the police is as important to stabilizing Iraq as standing up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.