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Probe highlights widespread US fraud in Iraq
MSNBC 03/14/10 Investiga tors looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions — involving banks,... ...
The Corruption of Empire
Just as the United States is winding down its reconstruction of Iraq, the largest nation building project in history, President Obama wants to do the same for Afghanistan only do it better and bigger. http://www.campai gnforliberty.com/article.p hp?view=184 From... ...
U.S. forces to continue patrolling in Basra after June 30
U.S. forces will continue their patrols in Basra even after the U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, said the head of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team (P.R.T.) in the province,... ...
'Billions wasted' in Iraq
BETWEEN $US3 billion and $US5 billion have been wasted in the US-effort to rebuild Iraq since 2003, the US official assigned to oversee reconstruction efforts in that country said today. Stuart Bowen,... ...
US Soldiers Investigated Over 'Fraud' Bigger Than Madoff
By Patrick Cockburn in northern Iraq The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it... ...
The New Fallujah
Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch.com: "Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind of reconstruction underway. At least 70 percent of that city's... ...
Waste, fraud in Iraq being repeated in Afghanistan
Las Vegas Review-Journal 02/02/09 Waste and corruption that marred Iraq’s reconstruction will be repeated in Afghanistan unless the U.S. transforms the unwieldy bureaucracy managing tens of billions... ...
Taxpayers Losers on $100 Billion in Iraq Funds
A lengthy study by Bowen's office, "Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience," reviews the problems in an effort the Bush administration initially thought would cost $2.4 billion. http://tinyurl.c om/dmjf2t From... ...
Watchdog critiques wartime spending
USA Today 02/01/09 Military and civilian agencies must do a better job of coordinating postwar reconstruction projects, particularly as the U.S. focus shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, a government watchdog... ...
Iraq's Reconstruction a $100 Billion Failure
Agence France-Presse: "An unpublished US government report says US-led efforts to rebuild Iraq were crippled by bureaucratic turf wars, violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society, resulting... ...