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SECTION 10.2
RECONSTRUCTION: JULY 2004 TO JULY 2009
Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 198
The transition from Occupation to an Iraqi Government ............................................... 199
Efforts to accelerate the pace of reconstruction ............................................................ 200
Reconstruction in areas regained from insurgent control, and Fallujah .................. 213
Agreement on debt relief for Iraq ............................................................................ 224
Taking the strain in the South, early 2005 ..................................................................... 224
DFID reduces its budget for Iraq for 2005/06 ......................................................... 229
Priorities for 2005 .................................................................................................... 231
DFID reviews its Interim Country Assistance Plan .................................................. 241
Preparing for transition to Iraqi control in the South ...................................................... 257
Responding to the new US Clear-Hold-Build strategy ............................................ 259
Preparing for the transfer of security responsibility in Maysan and Muthanna ....... 276
Turning Basra around ............................................................................................. 285
UK plans for 2007, and the US surge ..................................................................... 303
Major General Shirreff’s proposal for a military-led UK effort in the South ............. 306
Preparing for Provincial Iraqi Control in Basra ........................................................ 309
Responding to the displacement crisis ................................................................... 319
Reconstruction under Mr Gordon Brown’s Premiership ................................................ 323
Charge of the Knights, March 2008 .............................................................................. 343
Transition to a normal bilateral relationship with Iraq .................................................... 359
Long-Term Strategy for Iraq, February 2009 .......................................................... 364
Resources available for reconstruction ......................................................................... 367
Reflections on the impact of the UK’s reconstruction effort .......................................... 369
Key economic and social indicators ........................................................................ 371
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