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Ira... Reconstruction Costs Said to Have Doubled.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By Jeffrey Sparshott, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 2--Postwar looting and sabotage in Ira... has about doubled the cost of reconstruction so far, and security remains a pressing concern for private companies in the country, a top U.S. reconstruction official said yesterday.
"This was systematic pillaging of infrastructure," said Thomas Wheelock, infrastructure project manager for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department agency that is part of the U.S. government's effort to restore Ira...'s economy and political system.
Mr. Wheelock, speaking yesterday at a USAID briefing in Washington, has been in the Middle East since mid-March to help oversee USAID's efforts to restore...
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