George_F
03-25-03, 08:31 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030325/pl_nm/iraq_usa_reconstruction_dc_4
(Reuters) - The United States will pay most of the cost to rebuild Iraq if it sticks to its plans to set up a joint military-civilian occupation run solely by Americans and Iraqi collaborators. The tab will be billion of dollars higher if the U.N. Security Council forces Washington to act alone by refusing to endorse the U.S.-installed administration or allow U.N. agencies to contribute to reconstruction.
The U.S. plan is to install U.S. civilians in Iraqi ministries alongside Iraqis appointed by an interim Iraqi authority made up of Iraqi opposition leaders, technocrats in exile and insider Iraqis not yet identified.
(Reuters) - The United States will pay most of the cost to rebuild Iraq if it sticks to its plans to set up a joint military-civilian occupation run solely by Americans and Iraqi collaborators. The tab will be billion of dollars higher if the U.N. Security Council forces Washington to act alone by refusing to endorse the U.S.-installed administration or allow U.N. agencies to contribute to reconstruction.
The U.S. plan is to install U.S. civilians in Iraqi ministries alongside Iraqis appointed by an interim Iraqi authority made up of Iraqi opposition leaders, technocrats in exile and insider Iraqis not yet identified.