Successes this week in Iraq (5-11 Aug., 2005)

[Psycho4Bud]

Reconstruction projects strengthened Iraqâ??s infrastructure this week, while community leaders showed their commitment to rebuilding. Iraqi Security Forces continue to be an essential part in working to increase the countryâ??s security.

Approximately 18,000 Iraqi schoolchildren will sit in freshly refurbished schools when their new school year starts in about six weeks. Iraqi and U.S. government agencies announced Aug. 6 that renovations of 43 schools in the northern and southern provinces are funded for repairs, and contracts have been awarded for the work. As part of the Iraq Relief Reconstruction Fund, over $1.3M was set aside to continue a nationwide school repair program that addresses rehabilitating sanitary facilities, electrical and mechanical systems, and structural repairs to schools in Karbala, Dahuk, Najaf, Basrah, and Qadisiyah.

More than 200 Iraqi children received medical screenings from Coalition Forces, with support from Iraqi Police, during an operation Aug. 5 in western Mosul. Soldiers and medics handed out soccer balls and hygiene products to the local children while they conducted the screenings. More than 1,000 children have received medical screenings during this and four similar operations over the last three weeks.

In Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad attended the handover ceremony of the International Press Center (IPC) to the Iraqi Government Communications Directorate (GCD) on Aug. 9. The IPC is a hub of activity for Iraqi and International journalists during press conferences, National Assembly sessions, and other media events. To mark the handover, USAID/Iraq provided a grant to the IPC for technical and office equipment that includes 20 desktop computers, 30 laptop computers, licensed software, printers, a scanner, a copy machine, CD writers, desks, chairs and other necessary office equipment. A group of Iraqi journalists who have used the IPC since its opening in February 2004 received the 30 laptop computers yesterday.

Iraqi and U.S. officials unveiled a special monument to honor four Iraqi Army Soldiers who gave their lives for the security of Iraq during the Ashura holiday. Dr. Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqâ??s Deputy Prime Minister, said the country owed a great debt to the four Soldiers and their families, and promised the Iraqi government would care for them in gratitude for the Soldiersâ?? gift to the country.

Officials from both countries also signed a charter to detail plans to bring much-needed projects to the people of Husseiniya, an agricultural town north of Baghdad whose population boomed during the previous regime. Coalition Forces are working with the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works to build storm drainage projects, water-quality improvements, and most importantly, sewage treatment facilities. The Husseiniya Charter is the first of its kind in the area, and will serve as the test-bed and guide for other projects in impoverished areas in and around Baghdad.

Reconstruction projects around the country are in progress, and this week, construction started on a Police Facilities project in the Samarra District of Salah Ad Din Province. This 250-officer station in the northeast part of Samarra, which is a $4.3M investment, will provide a presence in the city to help stabilize law and order. The contractor employs 25 Iraqi workers, and the project is scheduled for completion in November.

Iraqi workers in Baghdad finished the $3.6M Al Amari Water Distribution project this week. The project can produce approximately 250 cubic meters of potable water daily and service about 2,000 families in the Al Amari and 9-Nissan areas of Baghdad.

Iraqi Security Forces continued to prove themselves as they strive toward assuming security operations around the country.

Iraqi Army soldiers discovered five improvised explosive devices placed around a building in Rawah August 9. The soldiers located the five IEDs connected with wiring and secured the area to prevent any injuries while a coalition explosive ordnance disposal team neutralized the threat.

Iraqi Security Forces EOD teams were also busy â?? clearing three IEDs in separate cities the same day. Iraqi Police discovered an artillery shell wired for command detonation in Baqubah, a more complex IED rigged for remote control detonation in Tikrit, and another in Hit. An Iraqi EOD team eliminated the threat while an Iraqi Intervention Force secured the area, protecting community members from the terroristsâ?? weapons.

Citizens in Baghdad and Ramadi were just some of the Iraqi citizens who assisted Coalition and Iraqi Forces in locating weapons caches this week, taking an active part in securing their communities and creating an environment that will foster more reconstruction and increased stability.


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Slow but sure progress is being made!

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 08-13-2005. Successes this week in Iraq (5-11 Aug., 2005) Reconstruction projects strengthened Iraqâ??s infrastructure this week, while community leaders showed their commitment to rebuilding. Iraqi Security Forces continue to be an essential part in working to increase the countryâ??s security. Approximately 18,000 Iraqi schoolchildren will sit in freshly refurbished schools when their new school year starts in about six weeks. Iraqi and U.S. government agencies announced Aug. 6 that renovations of 43 schools in the northern and southern provinces Rating: 5

[amsterdam]

constitution is great.and its only been 4 years,amazing.

[Psycho4Bud]

Since everything is going so bad and there is nothing being accomplished I figured I'd bring this thread back up on top of the heap again.

Imagine that....only 20 views with 2 replies.

Unless there's news from the bad luck Hee Haw band nobody is interested....oh well!!!

[amsterdam]

aint that the truth,wont hear to much about the economy from the left either.

[BlueCat]

you keep living the fantasy...

More than half of the U.S. public believes that the war in Iraq has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. Nearly three-quarters of Americans say the number of casualties in Iraq is unacceptable, while two-thirds say the U.S. military there is "bogged down" and nearly six in 10 say the war was not worth fighting-in all three cases matching or exceeding the highest levels of pessimism yet recorded. Overall, more than half of those polled â?? 52 percent â?? disapprove of how Bush is handling his job. For the first time, a majority, 55 percent, also said Bush has done more to divide the country than to unite it.
keep laughing..

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Members of Iraq's national assembly late Monday passed by unanimous vote an extension allowing an extra week to complete talks on the country's new constitution.

The committee drafting the document had asked for an extension after it failed to reach a compromise by Monday's deadline after months of talks. The new deadline is August 22.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

or

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081500169.html

[Psycho4Bud]

And where did they get these stats from...a Michael Moore movie convention?

And as for the constitution, they have two issues to resolve....not to bad for the period of time and diversity of the population...but what the hell, we must centralize on the negative!!!

[BlueCat]

you are saying ABC and the washignton post got their stats from Michael moore? what? That makes no sense...

the constitution has not passed they have posponed it for a week.....

no one is centralizing on the negative you are counting your chickens before they hatch...you are puffing all up over something that still has not happened and even if it does it won't change anything...August is still the bloodiest month on record for US troops to bad you aren't as concerned for them as you are the Iraqis...

[Psycho4Bud]

for US troops to bad you aren't as concerned for them as you are the Iraqis...

Only one thing to say to that...Kiss my mother fucking norwegian ass!!! YOU and the rest of these left wing fanatics are the ones calling the troops baby killers and crap not me! THINK before you type!

[bhallg2k]

Liberals calling troops "baby killers?" You are aware that Vietnam is over, right?

[BlueCat]

HAHAHAHA my my stuck a nerve...norwegian ass? lmao


no one said anything about baby killers...that is your remark..typical I might add.

I said you are more concerned for the Iraqi election than you are for the troop deaths..you continue to puff up and post about it but you continually avoid what is really happening....when was the last time you posted anything about a US soldier in Iraq or Afganistan?

keep living the fantasy you start name calling when you are wrong. What else is new?