http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.iraqrebuild11sep11,1,1624966.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=trueWASHINGTON - The United States is halting construction work on some water and power plants in Iraq because it is running out of money for projects, officials have said.
Security costs have cut into the funds available to complete some major infrastructure projects that were started under the $18.4 billion U.S. plan to rebuild Iraq. As a result, the United States has had to confine work to projects deemed essential by the Iraqi government.
No overall figures are available, but one contractor has stopped work on six of eight water-treatment plants it was assigned to.
"We have scaled back our projects in many areas," James Jeffrey, a senior adviser on Iraq for the State Department, said Wednesday during a hearing held by the House Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee. "We do not have the money."
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