Beyond the Headlines: July 25-31
<ul> <li>Basra fails to spend budget</li> <li>Missan vies for foreign investment</li> <li>Oil Police bust smuggling network</li> <li>Kirkuk assassinations continue</li> </ul>
Then-Maj. Gen. Hamid Abdullah Ibrahim (center), the head of the Oil Police, leads a raid of an oil smuggling operation in Baghdad in late 2010. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)
Basra fails to spend budget
BASRA — Iraq’s foremost oil province has spent just 2.96 percent of its 2011 budget, according to Governor Khalaf Abdul Samad.
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