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  • A Minister Quits, Buildings Burn, Rubbish Rots. So Much For The 'Reconstruction'

    05/11/2003 3:52:13 PM PDT · by blam · 4 replies · 180+ views
    Independent (UK) ^ | 5-12-2003 | Donald Macintyre
    A minister quits, buildings burn, rubbish rots. So much for the 'reconstruction' By Donald Macintyre in Baghdad 12 May 2003 It was just another day in the process of "getting Baghdad back to normal". Well, on this most normal of days when news was supposed to be slow, the US-appointed Health Minister finally resigned at the time of a steadily mounting public health crisis after a week of relentless pressure from doctors disgusted at his prominent past in the Saddam Hussein regime. A senior State Department official turned up at the old Iraqi Police Academy to sack in person the...