Iraq Rebuilding Short on Qualified Civilians
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In Diyala, the vast province northeast of Baghdad where Sunnis and Shiites are battling for primacy with mortars and nighttime abductions, the U.S. government has contracted the job of promoting democracy to a Pakistani citizen who has never lived or worked in a democracy.
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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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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday he does not know when the United States will have trained enough Iraqis so they can adequately secure the country and begin replacing American troops now helping provide protection.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the US government and military, very few are signing up to go, resettlement officials said.
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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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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed yesterday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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Despite campaigns to protect  civilians in war zones, progress is gradual and failure too  obvious in many places in the world, the U.N. emergency relief  coordinator said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 21 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in attacks by insurgents north of Baghdad on Sunday, in the latest strikes on Iraqi security forces and people working with the US military.
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The US military is having trouble recruiting local Arabs to help with training by manning 'Iraqi villages.'
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The BBC's Crispin Thorold says Iraqi civilians are emerging as the main losers in the conflict between Turkey and the PKK.
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International donors to Iraq have agreed they need to speed up the allocation of promised funds to rebuild the country, but failed to erase concerns that violence is a huge obstacle as they wrapped up a two-day meeting.
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The Iraqi interim government has complained that the United Nations did not send enough electoral workers to help the country prepare for national elections scheduled for January.
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Iraq, the United Nations and foreign   donors met on Sunday to prepare a road map for the   reconstruction of Iraq and try to make the country economically   self-sufficient within five years.
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To listen to Iraq's new police officers is to hear the voices of under-equipped and under-trained men, often unnerved by the danger but determined to work.
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To the long and growing list of the Bush administration&#39;s pre-war and post-war misjudgments in Iraq, add a missed opportunity that might have averted much of the bloodshed that has marked the US occupation.
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Iraq has met fewer than half the political and military goals set by US Congress, according to an interim report.