This clip [two weeks old] gives you the answer, after many promises of reconstruction, nothing happened yet, there was even one Iraqi politician who went as far as promising to build an Olympic city in Sadr-city.
U.S. Initiates Reconstruction Program in Baghdad Slum.….October 26, 2004
U.S. commanders are preparing to launch a major reconstruction program that will give jobs to thousands of slum-dwellers.
Watch it here:
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