Investigators: Millions in Iraq Aid Wasted

[PhilipShore]

AP
January 31, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100274.html


WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.

The quarterly audit by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, is the latest to paint a grim picture of waste, fraud and frustration in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has cost taxpayers more than $300 billion and left the region near civil war.

[Contrite]

1. What?

I want my money back!

[Heidi]

2. Locking.

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