Iraqis Seek Role in Rebuilding Their Nation
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A makeover of Sadr City reflects a broad effort by Iraqi leaders to focus on lucrative rebuilding efforts.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 21  - Iraq&#39;s interim government has voiced concern at the lack of UN officials on the ground to help prepare the country for national elections promised in January.
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Pressure is rising to establish an Iraqi military capable of securing the country by January elections.
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Baghdad - Iraq urged the international community on Wednesday to play an active role in rebuilding the war-shattered nation at a donors conference in Tokyo as a Baghdad bombing killed three US soldiers in the latest wave of violence.
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Iraq has appealed to the United Nations to play a more active role in the country, and for the international community to speed up the distribution of reconstruction aid.
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CAIRO -- The Iraqi government is responsible for defusing the sectarian violence tearing the country apart and should redraft the constitution and rescind laws that give preferential treatment to Shi'ites and Kurds, Arab foreign ministers said in a statement yesterday.
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As officials prepare to start letting residents return to Falluja, they must figure out how to win back the confidence of the people whose city they have destroyed.
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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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BAGHDAD, Dec. 16 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on members of former President Saddam Hussein's disbanded army to join Iraq's new security forces in an effort to restore peace to the war-racked country.
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Iraqi and U.N. officials toured a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine in northern Iraq on Wednesday as workers took the first steps in a long-delayed reconstruction Â nearly two years after the attack on the famed golden dome became a rallying point for Shiite rage.
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The State Department and other government agencies are having trouble filling great, career-enhancing jobs in Baghdad as part of the new Iraq reconstruction push. Many agency employees are hesitant to sign up for these new "provincial reconstruction teams" because they think they might be killed....
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Baghdad, Iraq -- Pro-government forces in Iraq are trying to retake control of insurgent-dominated regions ahead of January national elections.
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Iraq on Wednesday urged international  donors to speed up funding for reconstruction, stalled by  violence and insurgency, and said holding elections was key to  improving security.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi appealed to the world leaders at the United Nations yesterday to help his country achieve stability by sending peacekeepers, reinforcing borders and forgiving its debts.
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Representatives from Iraq's different communities are to holds talks aimed at curbing bloodshed in the country.
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Iraq's interim government, preparing for an election next month while fighting a bloody insurgency, asked some of Saddam's Hussein's disbanded army to come back to work on Wednesday.
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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.