Pentagon reconstruction officials are privately complaining that the special inspector general for Iraq is drafting error-prone reports and hampering their work in Iraq, according to defense officials. But the office of Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the White House-appointed special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, rejects the complaints, saying Mr. Bowen issues accurate reports and solid advice. Mr. Bowen is generally hailed in the press and in Congress as the man who has brought oversight to a $24 billion program of U.S. taxpayer funds that at times lacked proper supervision and accountability. Mr. Bowen, a lawyer and former aide to President Bush, separately investigated the spending of Iraq oil money and found significant mismanagement and fraud. But within the Pentagon and among some defense officials in Iraq, Mr. Bowen's staff is viewed as inaccurate and meddlesome at times, according to interviews with defense officials and e-mails between Army Project and ...
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 Prodi's coalition shows signs of fraying |
The coalition of Italy’s incoming prime minister was already showing signs of fraying Sunday, with the head of a tiny party saying he would stay out of the government.It could be a Herculean task for Romano Prodi to hold together a coalition that includes mainstream leftists, communists, Catholics and secular radicals.The center-left Prodi, however, vowed to govern for a full, five-year parliamentary term. “We will stay united, and we will stay so for five years,” Prodi told reporters outside his home in Bologna.An appeals court officially confirmed Prodi’s electoral victory on Saturday when it certified his narrow, two-seat Senate majority....
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| Communist Rebels Attack Security Bases, Government Buildings in Northern Nepal |
Communist rebels attacked security bases and government buildings overnight in Nepal's mountainous north-central region, officials said Monday. Details were sketchy about the overnight attack at Chautara, about 75 miles northeast of Katmandu, but officials reached at neighboring districts confirmed the attack. The attackers knocked down the telecommunication tower around midnight cutting off all communications. The attack began late Sunday night but fighting continued until early Monday. The rebels attacked the army base, police post, the district administration office and the local jail, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized speak to the media. ...
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| Man Dies When Sink Hole Opens in Home |
A large sink hole opened in the middle of a house, killing a 27-year-old man who plummeted 10 feet and was covered by the rubble, officials said Sunday. The two-story home, built in the 1980s, might have been sitting atop a decades-old underground mine, authorities said. Recent rains possibly softened the ground under the home, in an isolated area near Lake Alta, northeast of Sacramento. "It's unbelievable," Placer County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Dena Erwin said. "From the front of the house, it's absolutely normal. Then, in the middle of the house, is this enormous hole." The victim was on the ground floor about 9:30 p.m. Friday when the concrete foundation near the kitchen gave way, Erwin said. ...
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| University of Texas Probes Computer Breach Nearly 200,000 Electronic Records at University of Texas Business School Illegally Accessed |
Nearly 200,000 electronic records at the University of Texas at Austin's business school have been illegally accessed, the school said Sunday. It's the school's second major breach in three years. The university said it learned late Friday that some Social Security numbers and possibly biographical material of students, alumni, faculty and staff might have been accessed. The university has notified the state attorney general's office and established a call center and Web site for those whose records might have been breached. ...
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| Japan, U.S. agree on troop repositioning Issue was cost of transferring 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam |
The United States and Japan have struck a bargain over a plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan, with Japan agreeing to pay $6.1 billion of the nearly $10.3 billion cost, the Japanese defense chief said Sunday night.Japanese Defense Minister Fukushiro Nukaga told reporters after his three-hour meeting with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that Japan wanted to have an appropriate sharing of costs in transferring 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam.Japan has offered to pay $2.8 billion, and the remainder of its $6.1 billion share would take the form of loans to the United States. Japan would shoulder 59 percent of the realignment cost. “We have come to an understanding that we both feel is in the best interests of our two countries,” Rumsfeld said after the meetings....
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