Iraq Corruption

Army Corps Of Engineers Worker Charged In Iraq Contract Bribes

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — An employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a construction company seeki...

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Ex-Marine Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribes

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A former Marine has pleaded guilty to accepting a $25,000 bribe in exchange for awarding numerous contracts to a Lebanon-based comp...

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Afghanistan, Iraq Amongst The Worlds Most Corrupt Countries

AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Afghanistan has slipped three places to become the world's second most-corrupt country despite billions in aid meant to bolster the gov...

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Abdul Falah Sudani: Iraq Arrests Former Minister As He Tries To Flee Country

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's former trade minister has been arrested at Baghdad airport on corruption charges as he was trying to leave the country....

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Iraq Anti-Corruption Watchdog Arrests 1,000 'Corrupt' Officials

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog says arrest warrants have been issued for some 1,000 allegedly corrupt officials....

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Iraq Trade Minister Resigns Amid Corruption Scandal

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister has accepted the resignation of his trade minister, shortly before a move in parliament to oust him over alleged...

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US Ignored Iraq's Rampant Corruption: Ousted Iraqi Cop

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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IN MARCH 2003, Salam Adhoob, a prominent lawyer in the Iraqi city of Suwayrah, was glad to see US forces roll into his country. Iraqis, he felt, would...

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Iraq Dismisses Oversight Officials Despite Soaring Corruption

NY Times | JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD -- The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing oversight officials who were installed to fight corrupti...

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Over $4 Billion Wasted In Iraq Reconstruction, Government Inspector Estimates

AP | BRIAN MURPHY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misg...

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Ex-officials: Bush admin. ignored Iraq corruption

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially...

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Iraq's Anti-Corruption Chief Says Maliki Government Must Go

The Nation | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Congress and the White House engaging in yet another round of debate on the Iraq War, a former Iraqi judge who was--and who still may be--the chi...

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