empty iraqi prison a failure

[busara]

BAGHDAD - In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misguided planning and construction shortcuts costing $40 million and stretching back to the American overseers who replaced Saddam Hussein.

Bowen estimated up to 20 percent "waste" — or more than $4 billion — from the $21 billion spent so far in the U.S.-bankrolled Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. It's just one piece of a recovery effort that swelled beyond $112 billion in U.S., Iraqi and international contributions.

Bowen said his agency has done 120 audits on Iraqi projects. "And they tell an episodic story of waste," he said.

Report: Empty prison in Iraq a $40M 'failure' - Yahoo! News

well, our money is really being put to good use