Eurasia Press & News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Training the police is as important to stabilising Iraq as building up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.

DAMASCUS — For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the US authorities after the 2003 invasion.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.

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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who is currently in Ethiopia to participate in the 8th African Union (AU) summit met with the prime minister, parliament speaker and foreign minister of that country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian and Tajik Education and Training ministers signed a 19-article Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on educational cooperation.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Envoys of the Non-Aligned Movement and Group 77 are due to attend talks with Iranian officials during a two day visit to the Islamic Republic starting on Saturday, residing representative of the Islamic Republic at the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Envoys of the Non-Aligned Movement Troika and the Group 77 are scheduled to pay a visit to Isfahan’s UCF plant next Saturday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on a number of innocent civilians in Iraq and Pakistan, which killed and wounded many people in the said two countries.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- US ally Saudi Arabia and Iran are working together to try to calm the crises in Iraq and Lebanon, the Saudi foreign minister said yesterday, despite Washington’s efforts to isolate Tehran and stem its power in the Middle East.