Bush to ask for another €80bn in war costs

The Bush administration will announce today that it wants about €80bn (€61.3bn) more for this year’s costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The request would push the total provided so far for those wars and for US efforts against terrorism elsewhere in the world to more than £155bn (€223.2bn) since the first money was provided shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.