Iraq corruption

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• The costliness of the Afghan vs. the Iraqi campaign: Some data!!!

  
  MoStFab — Authority: 463
  Yes, actually, it IS a possibility to look at data. Even while all those amateur strategists will give enlightening talks with sophisticated wording about how "while we cannot make a definitive case regarding the counterfactual issue of what strategic implications the absence of a sustained, intensive commitment would ...
  2 days ago

• Don’t Panic: Tell me more about corruption, please.

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 643
  The overwhelming majority of Americans don’t experience corruption the way people in poorer countries do
  1 week ago

• Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  posted by teach1st Democratic Underground original story at guardian.co.uk Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair’s government’s attempts to mislead the public. They ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Fears Iraqis Will Not Keep Up Rebuilt Projects

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges. But there are growing concerns ...
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• Wars Fail To End Corruption In Iraq and Afghanistan

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  Before 2001, Al Quaida was able to operate in Afghanistan because Afghanistan was a thoroughly corrupt nation in which the will of the people was not able to gain fair representation in a stable government. Before 2003, Iraq made many Americans nervous because its government was corrupt as well – controlled by a ...
  1 week ago

• Egypt-Algeria : 111-111

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  Transparency International published its Corruption perception index for year 2009 and we came in No.111 worldwide and you will not believe which country shares with this unfortunate event : Algeria ! Read More......( read more )
  2 weeks ago

• Afghanistan, Iraq Near Bottom of Corruption Index

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 141
  Despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and other countries to improve governance in Afghanistan and Iraq, the two countries remain among the world’s most corrupt nations, according to the latest edition of Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).Of the 180 countries ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pakistan ranks 42nd in global corruption index: TI

  
  PakPoint — Authority: 489
  KARACHI: According to the latest Transparency International (TI) corruption report, Pakistan has become more corrupt as compared to 2008. The TI announced its report today in which Pakistan had moved up quite a few positions in the list of the most corrupt countries and ranked at number 42 in the list. Releasing the ...
  2 weeks ago

• CNN Considers Political Correctness as a Factor in Ft. Hood Shootings?

  
  Brian Bonner — Authority: 116
  The Major was and is a Major “Nut Job Muslim Terrorist” period. Case, closed, everything else done. All you Left Wing Socialist, Commie Bastards get over this one.From Newsbusters:On Wednesday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Brian Todd actually considered that political correctness prevented earlier action against Ft. ...
  2 weeks ago

• what happens when opium is the baby-powder of choice

  
  Osirisjournal2's Weblog - also visit http://osirisjournal.blogspot.com for older posts — Authority: 116
  Today I was rather “down” after a lousy art venue that did not pan out until I turned on the news and put life into perspective. I listened to the story about how many Afghan children are getting more addicted to drugs at very very young ages because opium/heron is being fed to children to keep them warm during ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraqi and ME News for November 13th

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 131
  Remember Iraq? Some recent news from the Middle East from various sources. Kirkuk, Iraq Oil Billions and Weapons of Mass Deception in Iraq – Last Thursday, Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell won the development rights of a massive oil field — West Qurna near Basra in Iraq’s south. The two oil giants hope ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chickens, Meet Roost

  
  Multi Medium — Authority: 503
  Hey, remember all those no-bid contracts to reconstruct Iraq, and all the shoddy work by connected profiteers like Halliburton & KBR?  The Iraqis do.Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Blackwater plot deepens | Jeremy Scahill | The Guardian

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  An explosive report in the New York Times today could change that. The paper alleges that in the aftermath of the infamous 2007 Nisour Square massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians, top Blackwater officials "authorised secret payments" of about $1m into Iraq intending to bribe officials to allow Blackwater to remain in Iraq ...
  2 weeks ago

• Biden’s Iraq Scandal

  
  Attack Machine — Authority: 440
  Just One Minute: The NY Times front-pages a mini-debacle – Peter Galbraith, adviser to John Kerry and Joe Biden, has been getting rich off the advice he has been giving the Kurds: American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits By JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS OSLO — Peter W. Galbraith, an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blackwater Accused Of Covering Up Murder Using Taxpayer Dollars (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 431
  Infamous military contractor Blackwater Worldwide (also known as Blackwater USA and now Xe) has previously been accused of corruption, murder and illegal arms smuggling.Well, now you can add bribery to that list:Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials ...
  2 weeks ago

• Least Surprising News of the Day

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 154
  The New York Times is now reporting that mercenary corporation Blackwater (now Xe) approved over a million dollars in bribes to Iraqi officials in order to continue to operate in Iraq: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraq reconstruction watchdog fights for survival

  
  The Cable — Authority: 675
  Between 2005 and 2009, more than $567 million was spent on one contract in Iraq to build up the logistical capabilities of the Iraq security forces, with almost no oversight whatsoever. When an audit was finally done on the invoices, it found that 14 percent of the money examined in sampling -- thats more than ...
  3 weeks ago

• Military Industrial Complex Alive and Well, Part 2

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 131
  Part 2 of the Military Industrial Complex is Alive and Well with Larry Wilkerson. Like any drug addict, our oil-addicted country is going to find it eventually has to make a choice — between life or death, and between health or financial ruin. The drug of oil and the drug of imperialism has [...]
  5 weeks ago

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