The Still-Hampered Iraq Rebuilding Effort The Special Inspector General of Iraq Reconstruction reported yesterday that “despite nearly $108 billion that had been budgeted for the reconstruction of Iraq since the 2003 invasion, the countryâs electrical output and oil production were still below prewar levels and stocks of gasoline and kerosene had plummeted to their lowest levels in at least two years.” Many American contractors are suspected of having wasted funds; others, such as DynCorp, which “[billed] the United States for millions of dollars of work that was never authorized and [started] other jobs before they were requested,” may have committed outright fraud. (The New York Times)
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