U.S. Faces Struggle in Iraq Reconstruction: ; Security Concerns Hamper Efforts to Rebuild Country's Infrastructure

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BASRA, Iraq - The United States has yet to spend almost 60 percent of its pledged $21 billion in reconstruction money for Iraq, even as the country struggles through a third summer of sporadic electricity and limited clean water.

Many schools have been built, water plants started and power stations finished - especially here in the relatively peaceful south. But frustration is high.

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U.S. Faces Struggle in Iraq Reconstruction: ; Security Concerns Hamper Efforts to Rebuild Country's Infrastructure

Iraqis in the south look with envy at the Green Zone in Baghdad, with its air conditioning and hundreds of soldiers and police for security, while they don't have water, engineer Haid...

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