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  • U.S. to NGOs: Iraq Reconstruction? We'll do it ourselves.

    03/18/2003 10:58:11 AM PST · by katman · 34 replies · 268+ views
    "The Bush plan, as detailed in more than 100 pages of confidential contract documents, would sideline United Nations development agencies and other multilateral organizations that have long directed reconstruction efforts in places such as Afghanistan and Kosovo. The plan also would leave big non-governmental organizations largely in the lurch: With more than $1.5 billion in Iraq work being offered to private U.S. companies under the plan, just $50 million is so far earmarked for a small number of groups such as CARE and Save the Children." Looks like the U.N. payback plan is already underway. There's lots more in Trent's...