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Aid groups shying away from Iraq.
Byline: Tod Robberson
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ The soot was so thick on Sean O'Sullivan's shoes, a layer of caked mud was barely visible underneath. The grime was all over his clothes, in his hair, his eyes, his nose. The more it collected on him, the more enthusiastic the Irish-American volunteer worker seemed to become.
"There are hundreds, no, not hundreds, thousands of buildings like this," O'Sullivan, 39, said as he zigzagged around the debris of a bombed, burned and looted building that once housed Iraq's national film and theater institute. It is O'Sullivan's job to make it usable again.
His privately funded nongovernmental organization, Jumpstart International, is slowly working to clear out or tear down a fraction of Baghdad's war-damaged buildings so Iraqis can get on with rebuilding their country. If organizations such as Jumpstart don't do it, he said, "nobody else would _ and it has to be done."
The problem is that many major international nongovernmental organizations are staying away from Iraq because of political differences with the U.S. government and the constant threat of attack from guerrilla groups that want all foreigners to leave.
Unless the organizations return, O'Sullivan and other NGO leaders said, Iraq's reconstruction simply isn't going to happen at a fast-enough pace to avert more social ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Aid groups shying away from Iraq.