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Billions Wasted In Iraq?
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Feb. 12, 2006
(CBS) The United States has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars
during its three years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to
private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the
troops and rebuild the country.
It is dangerous work, but much of the $50 billion, which is more than the
annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security, has been handed out to
companies in Iraq with little or no oversight.
Billions of dollars are unaccounted for, and there are widespread allegations
of waste, fraud and war profiteering. So far only one case, the subject of a
civil lawsuit that goes to trial this week, has been unsealed. It involves a
company called Custer Battles, and as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft
reports, the lawsuit provides a window into the chaos of those early days in
Iraq.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/main1302378.shtml
