Iraq Defense Spending Spree Expected to Continue This year
Credit: U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND
Iraq this year is expected to keep up its high pace of spending to upgrade its military forces, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kohler, director of the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Iraq budgeted about $1 billion of its own money in 2006 to buy new defense equipment, says...
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