Iraq electricity minister seeks more funds

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid urged the government to double his ministry's budget to allow swifter rehabilitation of the country's battered power network in comments published on Wednesday.

"We have asked for four billion dollars to rebuild the power network but the 2008 budget gave us 1.4 billion dollars," Iraqi newspapers quoted Wahid as saying.

"We need 1.5 billion dollars to repair power stations and 2.5 billion dollars to buy new ones."

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The beleaguered minister urged foreign firms to help rehabilitate the power sector which suffered from serious under-investment under Saddam Hussein's regime before being heavily battered by the US-led invasion of 2003 and subsequent sabotage by insurgent groups.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080220/wl_mideast_afp/iraqelectricityus_080220125507;_ylt=ArhuZ1mvCP.PfBGLumKO.f.aOrgF

[Earth_First]

1. Halliburton, KBR, Betchel, Blackwater, Wackenhut, et. al should be footing the ENTIRE bill...

Afterall it is OUR taxes that are paying the federal contracts for these corporations to operate at free will making WILD amounts of cold hard cash at the expense of both the innocent Iraqi civilians and our innocent American taxpayers.

Fuck 'em! Let them rebuild the ENTIRE fucking country!