Baghdad embassy contractor gives U.S. trouble again, this time in Africa

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Anchorage Daily News / McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - A year after problems emerged in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, another State Department post being built largely by the same Kuwaiti-based company is engulfed by delays, recriminations, and an Inspector General's probe, according to U.S. officials.

The embassy building, in the central African nation of Gabon, was supposed to be finished by April 2009.

Instead, according to U.S. officials and to documents obtained by McClatchy Newspapers, the $55 million complex is only 7 percent complete. Workers are still excavating the construction site in the Gabonese capital of Libreville, and early 2010 is the new target date for completion. State Department officials confirmed that the department's inspector general is actively examining the project, but declined to provide details.

Patrick Kennedy, the Under Secretary of State for Management, acknowledged serious problems with the facility.

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[PSPS]

1. Another of bush's no-bid contracts with work performed by underpaid illegals.

[ben_meyers]

2. Kuwaiti-based company again?

And who do we know that was just earning a little speaking fee addressing a business conference in Kuwait yesterday? But he doesn't need vetting.