Gov’t Agency Paints Dire Picture of ‘Out-of-Control’ Iraq

Posted on Jan 18, 2006

Guardian: An official assessment drawn up by the US foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, amounting to a “social breakdown” in which criminals have “almost free rein”.

The “conflict assessment” is an attachment to an invitation to contractors to bid on a project rehabilitating Iraqi cities published earlier this month by the US Agency for International Development (USAid). | story

Call us cynical, but why exactly are they getting different intel than the rest of us?

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