WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2007 – Officials in Iraq's Kirkuk province are stepping up to invest more Iraqi money for funding reconstruction projects designed to provide a better future for residents, a U.S. State Department official said today. “We work very closely with the local government on their budget execution, and this is the spending of Iraqi dinars, not U.S. dollars, supporting projects all over the province,” Howard Keegan, the leader for the provincial reconstruction team in Kirkuk province, told Internet reporters and “bloggers” during a conference call from Iraq. In addition, the governor of Kirkuk province “is reviewing every project...