The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found.The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department.Called the United States Agency for International Development, or A.I.D., the agency administers foreign aid projects around the world. It has been working in Iraq on reconstruction since shortly after the 2003 invasion....
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 Rice pressing for deal to end war. Could it be because the world is getting pissed off with the Bull Shit excuses they keep mouthing? |
| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Israel and Lebanon on Sunday to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hizbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel. R.. full News |
Editor - 21:54:00 07-29-06
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| Humanitarian aid piles up in Beirut without safe passage south |
| Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.The help has been slowed by t.. full News |
Editor - 21:34:00 07-29-06
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| France offers new UN resolution on Mideast crisis |
| France has drawn up a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Israel and Lebanon and prepare for the deployment of an international force. The documen.. full News |
Editor - 21:31:00 07-29-06
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| The truth of Blair's 'urgent diplomacy' |
| I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred for ever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin m.. full News |
Editor - 21:28:00 07-29-06
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| Chavez invites Iranian investment |
| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged Iran to increase investment in his country's oil and gas assets. Visiting Tehran as part of a foreign tour, Mr Chavez also pledged Venezuela would "stand by Iran at an.. full News |
Editor - 21:15:00 07-29-06
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