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To: TigerPaw who wrote (43659)	4/24/2004 6:01:36 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) of 89467

TP, Re: Brick inflation in Iraq -- Do you recall which radio network were you listening to? A Google News search has turned up nothing. BTW, here's an excellent radio series on the corruption of the rebuilding process in Iraq. marketplace.publicradio.org <BLURB> The spoils of war add up to more than capturing expansive palaces and luxury cars. As Marketplace reporters have discovered, not all of the $22 billion being spent to rebuild Iraq is going where it should. Who's watching the money as it streams through Baghdad? Just about no one, and bribes and black marketeering are rampant, witnesses say. A leading anti-corruption group claims that at least 20% of U.S. money spent in Iraq is being lost to corruption. From Halliburton subsidiaries charging double for gas, Iraqi officials and Arabic translators unrestrained from pocketing millions of dollars, or even members of the interim governing Council accusing each other of taking tens of millions in bribes. Marketplace's four-part series........

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