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Lack of basic services fuels anger of Iraqis against US

AFP, Baghdad
Efforts to refashion a government and restore basic services in Iraq inched forward here, amid warnings that the war-battered country was still ripe for a humanitarian disaster.
Electricity remains largely offline in Baghdad, fuelling local anger and frustration with the US forces.
US engineers struggling to restore power in the capital were grappling with a bizarre power grid built to light Saddam's palaces rather than the capital at large, said US Captain Travis Morehead.
Many in Baghdad are also without food and water, creating conditions for a possible catastrophe, the UN mission chief there warned.
"We have not yet got over the hump. The conditions for the development of a humanitarian disaster still exist," said Ramiro Lopes da Silva.
"It's (already) a humanitarian disaster in the sense basic services have collapsed or are at the risk of collapsing if we don't put them back into shape rather quickly."
Without electricity, unrefrigerated food rotted and water and sewage treatment plants lay idle, threatening a massive disease outbreak. Robbers and looters roam the streets at night.
Not even US forces are safe: a US soldier patrolling the streets of Baghdad was shot in the head and wounded Sunday by an unidentified Iraqi civilian, the US military announced.
The soldier was taken to a military field hospital and was reported there in stable condition, officials at the US Central Command said.
The assault, which follows two similar attacks in other parts of Iraq, underscores continued resistance to US forces in the country, just days after US President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations there.
In the United States, Secretary of State Colin Powell reiterated his call to Damascus to react constructively to the new regional setup following the fall of Saddam in neighbouring Iraq.
"There are consequences lurking in the background," Powell said in an interview with CBS television, the day after his return from a tour of Europe and the Middle East,
including Syria.
Powell's comments kept the pressure on Syria after weeks of US sabre-rattling since the fall of Saddam. US officials have repeatedly accused Damascus of aiding the former Iraqi dictator, of sponsoring terrorism, and of pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that "time will tell" if Syria's attitude will now improve. "I think you need to let the dust settle on that," he said on CNN.
Rumsfeld also told US television that Iraqi prisoners could help US forces hunt down the weapons of mass destruction that Washington accused Saddam of hiding and that it used to justify the war.