The New Iraq: Progress and Accomplishments


Delegates gather during a break at Iraq's National Conference, Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)(more photos)

Thirteen hundred delegates are meeting at a national conference in Baghdad to choose their interim national assembly. The assembly will consist of 100 members: 81 members to be elected to the interim National Council, and 19 members previously selected from the now-defunct Governing Council. The National Council will not have legislative powers but will be able to veto appointments and decisions made by the Cabinet and prime minister. (VOA News) (more facts)


Adil Abdel-Mahdi, Iraq's Interim Finance Minister. (AP Photo) (more photos)

The Financial Management Information System (FMIS) in the Ministry of Finance is now fully operational. This automated networked accounting and budget execution system is being implemented in a total of 28 Ministries and four government agencies with technical support from USAID advisors. It will record payment and revenue transactions, print checks on behalf of spending organizations, provide instant information to online users, and produce timely and varied budget and accounting financial reports. (USAID) (more facts)


Muktar Ismael Hamaad, Official Thayer Hamdallah and Lt. Col. Arrington inaugurate the water purification plant. (DoD Photo)(more photos)

Citizens of Al Kabani have clean water and constant electricity flowing into their homes for the first time in years, thanks to their local government, the Marines and their own hard work. Thirty-five local Iraqis worked 10-hour days for more than a month to complete the 30,000 gallon-per-hour water purifier, which will serve a population of 3,000 in three villages. The reserve infantry battalion, based at nearby Camp Taqaddum, funded the $175,000 project and the $22,000 generator. (DoD) (more facts)


Iraqi National Guard recording raid of a shoe store. (US Army photo/Spc. Jan Critchfield)(more photos)

Months of training paid off for a group of four Iraqi National Guard members during a recent raid. Tasked with deploying a backpack-carried loudspeaker system, a group of four Iraqi National Guard members excelled in their first raid. Iraqi National Guards see their job as tracking anti-coalition propaganda and providing security to the neighborhoods.(DoD) (more facts)

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