**The state department has taken $184m earmarked for drinking water projects and moved it to the budget for the lavish new US embassy in Saddam Hussein’s former palace.
Iraq’s people, who, according to a recent study by the consumer group Public Citizen, are facing “massive outbreaks of cholera, diarrhoea, nausea and kidney stones” from drinking contaminated water.**
London-AP – Reports say billions of dollars of Iraqi money is unaccounted for.
British lawmakers and aid activists say there are glaring gaps in the handling of 20 (b) billion dollars generated by Iraq’s oil and other sources since the U-S-led war to oust Saddam Hussein ended last year.