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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's newly appointed ambassador to the United States, Rend Rahim Francke, criticized a string of US errors since the spring invasion but said she was confident they were being put right. "In Washington, there was a great deal of concentration on the conduct of war. Unfortunately it became clear that there was far less focus on the conduct of the post-war period," she told AFP Monday in a Baghdad interview. "There were a number of mistakes made and these are mistakes that Iraqis have spoken about and that the Americans themselves have acknowledged," said the former rights...