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'Billions wasted' in Iraq reconstruction
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
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US3 billion ($4.33 billion) and $US5 billion ($7.22 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, the Special Inspector General...
Tags: Iraq Reconstruction, Rebuilding Afghanistan, Stuart Bowen, rebuilding iraq, inspectors general, special inspectors, Barack Obama
Iraq reconstruction mingled with fraud
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 months ago
Credibility According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, fraud, waste, poor security and weak subcontractor performance, were among the main reasons of the US failure in rebuilding Iraq...Stuart Bowen, the writer of the 456-page...
Tags: Iraq Reconstruction, grim report
Watchdog critiques wartime spending
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 months ago
Credibility 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 plans to tell a congressional commission today. Stuart Bowen, the...
Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, U.S, iraq reconstruction
U.S. Report Details Iraq Reconstruction Woes
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 months ago
Credibility All Things Considered , December 14, 2008 · A draft of an official history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq details Pentagon efforts, beginning before the 2003 invasion, to resist reconstruction of the country. The report also says the Bush administration...
Tags: reconstruction, iraq, troops, Iraqi, surge, bush administration, Bush, iraq reconstruction
Coleman: rescind Iraqi reconstruction money
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Senator Norm Coleman says he'll push to rescind $1 billion in U.S. funding for Iraqi reconstruction — responding to a report that Iraq could finish the year with as much as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus. Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, says...
Tags: reconstruction, Norm Coleman, budget, Iraq, oil, Norm Coleman, iraq reconstruction, budget surplus
Iraq's output hits post-invasion high
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility 2 Washington: Iraq's daily oil production is at its highest level since the March 2003 US invasion, in large part thanks to improved security, a new US audit says...The report is his third this year to outline increasing improvements to Iraq's security...
Tags: Iraqi, Stuart Bowen, inspector general, special inspector, oil revenues, iraq reconstruction, oil production
9:50 a.m. -- Ginger Cruz, boss, cleared of fraud and abuse allegations
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility � The government has cleared the top U.S. watchdog of Iraq reconstruction projects and his deputy of fraud and abuse allegations lodged by former employees, officials said Wednesday. On July 3, federal prosecutors alerted the office of Special Inspector...
Tags: Iraq, Mr. Bowen, iraq reconstruction
Cases against Iraq IG, deputy, end without charges
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The government has cleared the top U.S. watchdog of Iraq reconstruction projects and his deputy of fraud and abuse allegations lodged by former employees, officials said Wednesday. On July 3, federal prosecutors alerted the office of Special Inspector...
Tags: reconstruction, Iraq, iraq reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, Ginger Cruz
Rubber Stamping ‘Failed’ Iraq Projects
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Far too often, when work is incomplete, U.S. officials will revise or “descope” the terms of the contract to list the project as completed. One example: A $35 million children’s hospital in Basra that is marked completed despite the fact that it’s only...
Tags: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraqi Army, U.S
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