Army looking for fraud in Iraq contracts


	Army looking for fraud in Iraq contracts

BobbyDelray

10-27-2007 6:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/25f1d102-060a-493d-a8e9-e6762ba9684a/E5D32B97-F3B6-4F8F-A4F4-AED02C3412D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html" href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html"><P>Beginning Monday, Army investigators will look for fraud in the awarding of the roughly 6,000 Iraq war contracts worth $2.8 billion. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html"><P>A team of 10 auditors, criminal investigators and acquisition experts will assemble at a large <A href="http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/acqinfo.htm">Army acquisition center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit</A>, to review an initial 314 contracts awarded at <A href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-arifjan.htm">Camp Arifjan</A> in Kuwait. Each contract is worth more than $25,000 and was issued between 2003 and 2006 at the camp, which military officials have "identified as a hub of corruption," the Associated Press writes. A separate team at Camp Arifjan is examining 339 contracts of lesser value.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html"><P>Here's the complete <A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071026/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_contract_fraud;_ylt=A0WTUeHJZyJHFu4AaxSs0NUE">AP report</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/army-looking-fo.html"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5D32B97-F3B6-4F8F-A4F4-AED02C3412D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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