STUART BOWEN TESTIFIES ON IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen Jr. testifies on Iraq reconstruction before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in Washington on May 22, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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Attacks on Shiite neighborhoods Tuesday in Baghdad are only the beginning of al-Qaida's vengeance, the terrorist organization said.
There are complex challenges remaining for Iraq but the country is better off than it was under Saddam Hussein, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said.
The aftermath of the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq has left Washington with diminished clout in the region, a Middle East scholar write.
The Iraqi government and its people "lament the lost potential" promised by billions of dollars of U.S. financial support, an inspector general report said.
The U.S. government says it would regrettable should Turkey be excluded from the full benefits of oil reserves from neighboring Iraq, an envoy said.
The Iraqi government said it considered unilateral deals between Russian energy company Gazprom and the Kurdish government to be illegal.
A U.S. inspector general report takes note of progress made in Iraq in terms of internal oil disputes, but said rivalries among various factions "remain tense."
Iraqi indecisiveness and poor capacity from the U.S. government doomed a training program for Iraqi police officers, an auditor said.
Nearly $6.6 billion in funds for Iraq reconstruction that had been missing has been accounted for in a U.S. audit, officials said.
New York's Federal Reserve Bank won't tell how much it sent Iraq after the U.S. invasion, said an official investigating millions of dollars in missing funds.
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