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Bush administration to shift funds to boost Iraq's security
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Xinhua News Agency
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September 14, 2004
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Bush administration to shift funds to boost Iraq's security
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Bush administration wants to
shift a total of 3.46 billion US dollars from Iraq's water, power and
other reconstruction projects to bolster security and prepare for
Iraq's coming elections due in next January, US media said on Monday.
The administration wants Congressional permission to shift the
funds out of the 18.4 billion dollars that Congress approved last
year to rebuild Iraq, according to the documents submitted by the
Bush administration to the Congress.
The administration would shift 1.804 billion dollars earmarked for
water, sewage and electricity projects to boost Iraq's security ...