U.S. appeals court said that Iraq does not assume legal responsibility for ending two decades in the oil for food program to return during the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Appeals Chamber of the U.S. ninth in California that the current government of Iraq deserves protection under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act of 1976 because the case does not include the activities of American business “with legal significance.” (more…)
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) — U.S. auditors suggest that some of an unaccounted-for $6.6 billion in cash meant to help Iraq rebuild after the American-led 2003 invasion may have been stolen.
The huge missing sum was part of a $12 billion cash airlift the administration of President George W. Bush authorized in 2003 and 2004.
The U.S. and Iraqi governments are closing the books on the program this month but after multiple audits and investigations the Pentagon can’t say what happened to the $6.6 billion — enough to run the Los Angeles or Chicago school systems for a year — the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
Under the guidance of Mr. and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, arrived in Los Angeles, a delegation from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry for more than four months, to find a seat for the opening of an Iraqi consulate in Los Angeles, has been received the delegation by the Iraqi Association of America.
And you’ve followed the issue of consular relations with Ms. Rend al-Rahim’s first ambassador to Iraq in America after the fall of the regime during a visit to Los Angeles. Then Mr. Samir Sumaida’ie, Iraq’s ambassador to America. The first letter I wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a professor in the July 25, 2007 demanding the opening of the consulate in Los Angeles for the large increase in the number of Iraqi immigrants to all California cities in recent years.
