European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 10 2007 stars and stripes Page iraqi Leader thanks Japan for its support Issei Kato Iraq prime minister Nouri a Maliki Center left greets japans de sense minister Fumio Kyuma in Tokyo on monday a Maliki later told Shinzo Abe japans prime minister that the iraqi people were United in their efforts to rebuild their country and were thankful for japans sup port Iraq has escaped the constraints of the past and is engaged in new challenges a Maliki told Abe noting the current depth of bilateral ties the support being Given to Iraq is one Symbol of that Friend ship he said Japan and Iraq also signed off on million for projects aimed at repairing iraqi Oil processing and Export facilities rebuilding a fertilizer Plant and Power sector reconstruction earlier monday Almalik thanked Kyuma for japans efforts in support of Iraq and urged japanese companies to come Back to do business there a defense ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity a v i i the Road guide is available for free at vehicle registration offices Mes filing stations car care centers and shopping facilities throughout Germany pick yours up today rips on occupation author blasts us for by Charles j Hanley the associated press new York in a rueful reflection on what might have been an iraqi government insider de tails in 500 pages the us occupations shocking mismanagement of his performance so bad he writes that by 2007 iraqis had turned their backs on their would be liberators the corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded inefficient incompetent and corrupt state of the new order Ali a Allawin concludes in the occupation of newly published by Yale University press Allawin served As Iraq Trade defense and finance minister at various times since 2003 the usand British educated Engineer and Fin Ancier takes a unsparing look at failures both american and iraqi first came the monumental ignorance of those in Washington pushing for War in 2002 without the faintest idea of Iraq realities More perceptive people knew instinctively that the invasion of Iraq would open up the great fissures in iraqi society he writes what followed was the rank amateurism and swaggering arrogance of the occupation under l Paul Bremers coalition provisional authority which took big Steps with Little consultation with iraqis Steps aha i and Many others see As blunders the americans disbanded Iraq army which Allawin said could have helped quell a rising insurgency on 2003 instead hundreds of thousands of demobilized angry men became a recruiting Pool for the resistance purging tens of thousands of members of top pled president Saddam Hussein baath Parry left Iraq Short on experienced hands at a crucial time an order consolidating decentralized Bank accounts at the finance ministry bogged Down operations of Iraq Many stat owned enterprises the Pas focus on private Enterprise allowed the commercial gangs of Saddam Day to monopolize business its free Trade policy allowed looted iraqi Capi Tal equipment to be spirited away across Borders the spa perpetuated Saddam fuel subsidies Selling gasoline at Giveaway prices and Drain in the budget in his 2006 Memoir of the occupation Bremer wrote that senior us generals wanted to recall ele ments of the old iraqi army in 2003 but were re buffed by the Bush administration Bremer complained generally that his authority was under mined by Washington a micromanagement on us reconstruction failures Allawin writes that the americans insipid retelling of Success stories merely hid tithe huge Black Hole that Lay underneath for their part us officials have often largely blamed Iraq violence forthe failures of reconstruction and poor governance the author has been instrumental since 2005 in publicizing extensive corruption within order including an million defense ministry scandal under Saddam he writes the secret police kept would be plunderers in Check better than the us occupiers have done As 2007 began Allawin concludes americas Only allies in Iraq were those who sought to Manip ulate the great Power to their narrow advantage it might have been otherwise Soldier defends shooting in Iraq that killed italian agent the associated press new York a us Soldier facing trial in the fatal shooting of an italian intelligence officer at an Iraq checkpoint said he had no Choice but to fire a newspaper re ported monday pc Mario Lozano said the agents vehicle kept approaching after he flashed a warning Light to signal it to Stop the new York Post reported Lozano said he shot first at the ground and then at the vehicles engine you have a warning line you have a danger line and you have a kill line Lozano told the newspaper from a relatives new York apartment anyone inside 100 meters is already in the danger zone and you gotta take them out Lozano said if you hesitate you come Home in a Box and i didst want to come Home in a Box i did what any Soldier would do in my position Lozano is set to be tried in a sentia this month on a murder charge in the March 2005 death of Nicola Calipari the intelligence officer was shot on his Way to the Baghdad Airport shortly after securing the release of a kidnapped italian journalist another agent and the journalist Giuliana Sgrena were wounded an italian government report on the incident blamed us Mili tary authorities for failing to Sig Nal that there was a military checkpoint ahead on the Road while the us government said the car had been going fast enough to alarm the soldiers the italians said the vehicle was trav Eling slowly save 10 with promo code