In other news, the State Department quietly announced this week it has requested $100 million dollars for Iraqi reconstruction — all of it for prisons. The Bush administration initially promised $20 billion dollars to reconstruct Iraqi infrastructure. But much of the money has been diverted to security. State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey said the $100 million dollar prison project was the lone new reconstruction effort the US government will undertake over the next year.
New Iraq Reconstruction Funds Devoted Solely to Prisons
HeadlineMar 02, 2006