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Auditors: Private Security In Iraq Costs Over $6B
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... from his work on three schools in Baghdad's Sadr City this quarter because he and his family were threatened when he refused repeated requests from government officials that he pay them bribes.
_ The United States has allocated nearly $25 billion to support training and equipping new Iraqi security forces and the justice system and spent more than $10 billion on Iraq infrastructure.
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Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction http://www.sigir.mil
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Iraq's Private Security Has Cost Over $6 Billion, US Auditors Say
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... from his work on three schools in Baghdad's Sadr City this quarter because he and his family were threatened when he refused repeated requests from government officials that he pay them bribes.
_ The United States has allocated nearly $25 billion to support training and equipping new Iraqi security forces and the justice system and spent more than $10 billion on Iraq infrastructure.
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On the Net:
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction http://www.sigir.mil
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Iraq's Private Security Has Cost Over $6 Billion, US Auditors Say
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... from his work on three schools in Baghdad's Sadr City this quarter because he and his family were threatened when he refused repeated requests from government officials that he pay them bribes.
_ The United States has allocated nearly $25 billion to support training and equipping new Iraqi security forces and the justice system and spent more than $10 billion on Iraq infrastructure.
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On the Net:
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction http://www.sigir.mil
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ProPublica: Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers....Afghanistan
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by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica
The congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan met for the first time in Washington D.C. today, the start of a two-year long probe into corruption, abuse and fraud in the ongoing conflicts that may one day top a trillion dollars in cost.
Front and center was a 456-page report on greed and waste in Iraq written by the Special Inspector General of Iraq, Stuart Bowen. The draft of Bowen's report, entitled "Hard Lessons," was first revealed in ...
John V. Santore: There Is No Victory in Iraq
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... That mistakes have occurred is overwhelmingly obvious. In fact, many of the self-inflicted wounds endured by Iraqi civilians and US troops alike had nothing to do with military strategy. Instead, they were the product of waste and corruption at the hands of US contractors and the members of the White House and Congress who supported them. Stuart W. Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, has documented a seemingly endless number of cases of incompetence and criminal negligence. To cite ...
