Thursday, August 25, 2005

Wanna Know about Abu Ghirab

Read the interview with the General Officer who was scapegoated over the "scandal".

And in case you want to know wherte your taxes went, here's a quote:
And in my little corner of the world and my exposure down at the Coalition Provisional Authority, I saw corruption like I've never seen before - millions of dollars just being pocketed by contractors. Everything was on a cash basis at the time. You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control.