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Article: Bush administration expects a donors conference on rebuilding Iraq
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- April 22, 2003
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Bush administration plans to call for an international donors
conference to raise money for Iraq's rebuilding, but it has no current
estimate of the final bill, the Pentagon's budget chief said Tuesday.
Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon comptroller, said a number of countries
already are providing or pledging assistance, even before U.S.-led
combat operations in Iraq are declared over.
The United Arab Emirates, for example, is contributing a water purification
system for Baghdad, he said.
Zakheim said he believed there will be more international interest
in investing in Iraq's reconstruction than in the case of Afghanistan,
which has less appealing ...