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Italian Quits U.S. Led Iraq Authority
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, 17 November 2003)
An Italian official resigned from the U.S.-led administration running Iraq, saying it is mismanaging reconstruction, out of touch with Iraqis and only fueling their anger, the Foreign Ministry and news reports said Monday. . . . "The provisional authority simply doesn't work," Marco Calamai, a special counselor to the authority in the province of Dhi Qar, told reporters in announcing his resignation . . . Calamai said only an interim authority headed by the United Nations could turn things around. . . . He said the American-led administration, headed by L. Paul Bremer, doesn't understand Iraqi society and has muddled reconstruction projects by delaying financing. He said its policies were in part to blame for last week's attack on the Italian Carabinieri barracks that killed 19 Italians, as well as 14 others. . . . The U.S.-led authority has created "delusion, social discontent and anger" among Iraqis and allowed terrorism to "easily take root," Corriere quoted Calamai as telling Italian journalists Sunday in Nasiriyah. . . . The attack on the barracks "is the consequence of a mistaken policy and an underevaluation of the complexity of the social structure of Iraq," he said. "There needs to be a radical change with respect to the policies taken so far by the USA." . . . The U.S.-led coalition has been struggling to deal with an anti-occupation insurgency that has only grown deadlier with time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April. Faced with worsening security, Washington decided last week to hand over power to Iraqis by June, dropping its old timetable that called for Iraq first to formulate a constitution and hold elections. . . . In an interview with the leftist daily L'Unita a day before, Calamai complained that the British and Americans had marginalized the Italians. "They don't consult us, they don't involve us, even though their security depends on us." . . . Calamai told reporters that reconstruction projects promised and financed by the administration "have had practically no results," and that bureaucratic delays had prevented promised money from reaching some rehabilitation projects. . . . Some $400,000 a month was supposed to be made available for projects in Dhi Qar alone, but "because of the muddled organization of the CPA, only a fraction has been spent," Corriere quoted him as saying.

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