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September 15 .2015 - 16:33
Sumer News / Baghdad
Deputy Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to re-read the report of the US Special Inspector General in charge of the reconstruction program in Iraq in September 2014, in the framework of disclosure of Iraq's money looted revealed spoilers, and stressed that corruption Aptdy the existence of "the occupation," the US.
The first which reveals the "serious" errors in the implementation of the US program at a cost of $ 25 billion and is this report is the official.
And published (Sommer News) report, titled "lack of expertise and bureaucratic disputes and escalating security costs hinder Iraq's reconstruction efforts," the text.
Washington: James Klanz *
It depicts the first official history of the US reconstruction efforts in Iraq, $ 25 billion, lagging a program from the outset because of the lack of personnel and lack of technical expertise and bureaucratic conflicts and confidentiality continuing to rise and security costs, according to a draft preliminary report.
Document has been prepared, which start planning a secret pre-war, reconstruction, and dealing with each hand about aspects of the program in 2005, by the Office of the Inspector General for reconstruction, as discussed last month in a closed forum of about 24 experts from outside the office before .
And provided one of the participants in the symposium copy of the document dating back to December (December 2005) of the newspaper «New York Times».
He declined Office of the Inspector General, who continues his staff and Mhacboh audit in different aspects of the process of reconstruction since early 2004, and submit a report, comment on the report, except for saying, that a preliminary to a large extent.
Said Jim Mitchell, a spokesman for the Office of the Inspector General, «it is incomplete. And it could change significantly before finally published. »
In the document description of the effect of crippling shortage of workers and contracting battles between the State Department and the Ministry of Defence, which led to delays lasted for months, for the first time from within the program.
The document also refers to the concern about writing contracts for an entity «a legal status mysterious», such as the Coalition Provisional Authority, which is the question of whether an American entity or a multinational entity such as NATO.
And look at the phenomenon of the document, repeatedly, that strange decisions about sharing responsibility for different sectors for reconstruction.
At a certain stage the planning team to take the decision to withdraw the reconstruction activities in Iraq to be under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers, except for the water, which go to the maritime responsibility. At the time, he retired Admiral David Nash was responsible for the reconstruction.
Said John Hammer, an expert in the reconstruction, which participated in a meeting last month, said the report reflects an unbiased view of the program.
He added that «the impression which consists you have is an impression of the institution has a very limited structure on the ground there, and he was to have the controversial instructions from the United States, and the climate is very difficult and the pressure due to the climate in order to move quickly».
After a long period of power transfer, and the establishment or cancellation of a number of institutions and agencies, and continuous transfer of experienced workers, reconstruction Last Change process last month passed, without declaring it. Corps of Engineers has awarded responsibility for the office held by the President, and subjected to severe criticism for overseeing the reconstruction money amounting to $ 13 billion.
The change appeared days before Bush's words, that the former focus of the reconstruction program on large public works projects, which is overseen by largely projects and contracts office, has been subjected to cracks. And that office is now the responsibility of Gen. William McCoy, commander of the department in the Gulf Corps of Engineers, according to Litan said Col. Heath, spokesman for the Corps who served in Iraq.
Officials at the contracting office and said the move was normal, so that more projects moved from the contracting phase to construction and completion phase. Said James Chrome, a spokesman for the office, the 1636 projects out of the office responsible for 2265 had been completed.
Said Steve Wiley, vice president and an expert in the Army Corps in New York taxpayers Organization issues, it is clear that change can convince critics of the reconstruction program. He said he «in a certain level, we can say that is positive. But if your concern is that the former institution to adopt projects in a manner new deals, the Legion, therefore, will not gives you a lot of change in the speed ».
According to a draft report of the Inspector General, the reconstruction program began small task, but it cast a long shadow. Army has allocated $ 1.9 billion in November (November 2002) to prepare a contingency plan for what needs to be done, if the Iraqi forces destroyed complexes and oil pipelines in the country. The contract for that task went to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.
The army used that task as an excuse to give the company a new contract without a rival $ 1.4 billion for the renewal of oil equipment, a program that has become one of the steps that have been severely criticized, and returns one of the reasons that Vice President Dick Cheney was formerly CEO of Halliburton.
One of the first challenges faced by the reconstruction program, the large needs of the impossible in the Public Works sector devastating. Quoted the document as saying about Nash, he said officials realized early on that Iraq could require between $ 70 to $ 100 billion over several years. They have been forced to reduce the list of projects again and again. Nash said that he «does not matter Tkulaisna of the list, we may need 20 billion dollars more than it was accessible to us, but the reconstruction of Iraq and the transfer process can be stopped».
Finally it was agreed on the list of the largest projects in a number of areas of infrastructure, including oil, electricity, water, health care and security. But soon it grew hindrance, where descended into chaos contracting process, according to remember the document. And a close associate of the Inspector General said that there were approximately 20 different institution to conduct engagements.
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September 15 .2015 - 16:33
Sumer News / Baghdad
Deputy Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to re-read the report of the US Special Inspector General in charge of the reconstruction program in Iraq in September 2014, in the framework of disclosure of Iraq's money looted revealed spoilers, and stressed that corruption Aptdy the existence of "the occupation," the US.
The first which reveals the "serious" errors in the implementation of the US program at a cost of $ 25 billion and is this report is the official.
And published (Sommer News) report, titled "lack of expertise and bureaucratic disputes and escalating security costs hinder Iraq's reconstruction efforts," the text.
Washington: James Klanz *
It depicts the first official history of the US reconstruction efforts in Iraq, $ 25 billion, lagging a program from the outset because of the lack of personnel and lack of technical expertise and bureaucratic conflicts and confidentiality continuing to rise and security costs, according to a draft preliminary report.
Document has been prepared, which start planning a secret pre-war, reconstruction, and dealing with each hand about aspects of the program in 2005, by the Office of the Inspector General for reconstruction, as discussed last month in a closed forum of about 24 experts from outside the office before .
And provided one of the participants in the symposium copy of the document dating back to December (December 2005) of the newspaper «New York Times».
He declined Office of the Inspector General, who continues his staff and Mhacboh audit in different aspects of the process of reconstruction since early 2004, and submit a report, comment on the report, except for saying, that a preliminary to a large extent.
Said Jim Mitchell, a spokesman for the Office of the Inspector General, «it is incomplete. And it could change significantly before finally published. »
In the document description of the effect of crippling shortage of workers and contracting battles between the State Department and the Ministry of Defence, which led to delays lasted for months, for the first time from within the program.
The document also refers to the concern about writing contracts for an entity «a legal status mysterious», such as the Coalition Provisional Authority, which is the question of whether an American entity or a multinational entity such as NATO.
And look at the phenomenon of the document, repeatedly, that strange decisions about sharing responsibility for different sectors for reconstruction.
At a certain stage the planning team to take the decision to withdraw the reconstruction activities in Iraq to be under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers, except for the water, which go to the maritime responsibility. At the time, he retired Admiral David Nash was responsible for the reconstruction.
Said John Hammer, an expert in the reconstruction, which participated in a meeting last month, said the report reflects an unbiased view of the program.
He added that «the impression which consists you have is an impression of the institution has a very limited structure on the ground there, and he was to have the controversial instructions from the United States, and the climate is very difficult and the pressure due to the climate in order to move quickly».
After a long period of power transfer, and the establishment or cancellation of a number of institutions and agencies, and continuous transfer of experienced workers, reconstruction Last Change process last month passed, without declaring it. Corps of Engineers has awarded responsibility for the office held by the President, and subjected to severe criticism for overseeing the reconstruction money amounting to $ 13 billion.
The change appeared days before Bush's words, that the former focus of the reconstruction program on large public works projects, which is overseen by largely projects and contracts office, has been subjected to cracks. And that office is now the responsibility of Gen. William McCoy, commander of the department in the Gulf Corps of Engineers, according to Litan said Col. Heath, spokesman for the Corps who served in Iraq.
Officials at the contracting office and said the move was normal, so that more projects moved from the contracting phase to construction and completion phase. Said James Chrome, a spokesman for the office, the 1636 projects out of the office responsible for 2265 had been completed.
Said Steve Wiley, vice president and an expert in the Army Corps in New York taxpayers Organization issues, it is clear that change can convince critics of the reconstruction program. He said he «in a certain level, we can say that is positive. But if your concern is that the former institution to adopt projects in a manner new deals, the Legion, therefore, will not gives you a lot of change in the speed ».
According to a draft report of the Inspector General, the reconstruction program began small task, but it cast a long shadow. Army has allocated $ 1.9 billion in November (November 2002) to prepare a contingency plan for what needs to be done, if the Iraqi forces destroyed complexes and oil pipelines in the country. The contract for that task went to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.
The army used that task as an excuse to give the company a new contract without a rival $ 1.4 billion for the renewal of oil equipment, a program that has become one of the steps that have been severely criticized, and returns one of the reasons that Vice President Dick Cheney was formerly CEO of Halliburton.
One of the first challenges faced by the reconstruction program, the large needs of the impossible in the Public Works sector devastating. Quoted the document as saying about Nash, he said officials realized early on that Iraq could require between $ 70 to $ 100 billion over several years. They have been forced to reduce the list of projects again and again. Nash said that he «does not matter Tkulaisna of the list, we may need 20 billion dollars more than it was accessible to us, but the reconstruction of Iraq and the transfer process can be stopped».
Finally it was agreed on the list of the largest projects in a number of areas of infrastructure, including oil, electricity, water, health care and security. But soon it grew hindrance, where descended into chaos contracting process, according to remember the document. And a close associate of the Inspector General said that there were approximately 20 different institution to conduct engagements.
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