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| IRAQ: Breaking the Silence
by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
March 22nd, 2006
A prominent former insider is criticizing the administration’s handling of Iraq’s reconstruction. And there’s more to come. |
| IRAQ: The Fatal Divide at the Heart of the Coalition
by Max Hastings, The Telegraph
March 12th, 2006
US security contractors and regular US soldiers who are evangelical Christians," writes John Geddes, the ex-SAS soldier "see themselves in a crusade against the Muslim hordes. In my view, they're not much different to the Iraqi militiamen and foreign fighters who see themselves at the heart of a jihad against the Christian crusaders." |
| US: Contractor Found Guilty of $3 Million Fraud in Iraq
by Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
March 10th, 2006
In the first corporate whistle-blower case to emerge from Iraq, a federal jury in Virginia yesterday found a contractor, Custer Battles L.L.C., guilty of defrauding the United States by filing grossly inflated invoices for work in the chaotic year after the Iraqi invasion. |
| US: Democrats Want Tougher Government Contracting Terms
Reuters
March 2nd, 2006
Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, a co-sponsor of the new bill, said the legislation would set new standards to "restore integrity to a federal contracting process that has too often been operated in a manner that neither ensures confidence nor that taxpayers get a fair return for what they have paid." |
| UK: UK attacked for Uganda arms deal
by Karen Allen, BBC News
March 1st, 2006
The UK has failed to act on promises to plug loopholes that allow the sale of arms to countries with poor human rights records, aid agency Oxfam says. It says that military vehicles were sold to Uganda by a South African subsidiary of the UK firm BAE Systems. |
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