led occupation authority that ran Iraq after Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003 awarded Orascom a contact to build a mobile phone network in central Iraq last year. The Contrack project in Afghanistan is expected to be wrapped up by Oct. 2, 2005, the Defense Department said. Contract funds will not expire on Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, it said. --SP 2310 Local Time 2010 GMT
