U.S. State Dept Finishes Review of Iraq Aid Plan
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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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The White House is finalizing an $80  billion to $100 billion package that will pay for military  operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and could release details  early next week, sources close to the deliberations said on  Friday.
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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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BAGHDAD -- While Washington is mired in political debate over the future of Iraq, the American command here has prepared a detailed plan that foresees a significant American role for the next two years.
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Snow, Powell and Iraqâs Finance Minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi signed the agreement in a ceremony at the State Department. &#39;Second liberation&#39; Al-Mahdi thanked the US government and its people, describing
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The US has written off on Friday all of its $4.1bn in Iraqi debt and called on other nations to follow suit. At a ceremony in Washington to mark the move, US Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the move
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Donor nations wrapped up a two-day meeting Thursday with pledges to speed up projects to rebuild Iraq possibly by using more Iraqis to implement
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The five goals that should be met before the U.S. leaves Iraq
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WASHINGTON -- A widely anticipated White House report on Iraq, set for release today, contends that Iraq has made "satisfactory" progress toward nearly half of the political and military goals sought by Congress, while acknowledging that an equal number remain "unsatisfactory," an administration official said yesterday.
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as  secretary of state on Wednesday as a majority of senators swept  aside objections from some Democrats that she should be held  accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON - The State Department moved quickly yesterday to tamp down anger and possible repercussions after the alleged killing of eight Iraqi civilians by a private security firm hired to protect US diplomats in Iraq.
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In April 2003, as the US-led invasion of Iraq was ending, the Pentagon projected in a formal planning effort that the US military occupation of the country would end this month.
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Officials from the State Department and the Government Accountability Office disagreed yesterday over whether spending by Iraqi government ministries in 2007 accurately reflected claims of progress the Bush administration made last fall.
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Criticized for the failings of  Pentagon planning for post-war Iraq, the Bush administration  has created a small civilian-led team to help nations emerge  from conflicts and crises, officials said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO: International donors to Iraq agreed yesterday that 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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Congress required President Bush to submit an initial report to lawmakers by Sunday assessing whether the Iraqi government has made satisfactory progress toward achieving the benchmarks set for it. The breakdown of progress described in the Bush administration's report:
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Elections in January throughout Iraq are an achievable goal, the State Department said Monday, but it refused to predict the goal would be reached.