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[08/09/2006] Houston company pays US$4 million to settle Iraq fraud allegations
A company hired by Halliburton Co. to ship military cargo to Iraq has paid the government $4 million US to settle allegations it inflated invoices by adding a \"war risk surcharge,\" the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.\n » More

[03/06/2006] US seeks funds to build prisons in Iraq
The U.S. State Department is winding down its $20 billion reconstruction program in Iraq and the only new rebuilding money in its latest budget request is for prisons, officials said on Tuesday. » More

[02/28/2006] Toll in Iraq\'s Deadly Surge: 1,300
Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week\'s bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major U.S. offensives, according to Baghdad\'s main morgue. The toll was more than three times higher than the figure previously reported by the U.S. military and the news media. » More

[01/25/2006] \r\nAudit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects
A new audit of American financial practices in Iraq has uncovered irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to Iraq, and three Iraqis who plunged to their deaths in a rebuilt hospital elevator that had been improperly certified as safe. » More