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U.S. Shifts Funds From Reconstruction to Security in Iraq

HeadlineApr 23, 2004

The Boston Globe is reporting the US has been forced to shift hundreds of millions of dollars from reconstruction and humanitarian projects in Iraq to rebuild police stations that have come under attack and to train new Iraqi military and police recruits because of the high level of deserters. The military is now estimating 10 percent of the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces have joined the resistance and another 40 percent have quit. Meanwhile according to USA Today the US now plans to recruit Iraqis to form an elite volunteer unit that to fight the Iraqi resitsance movement.

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