Audit: &#36;9 Billion Unaccounted for in Iraq
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The U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly &#36;9 billion it transferred to government ministries, which lacked financial controls, security, communications and adequate staff, an inspector general has found.
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The number of Iraqi civilians killed in July and August hit 6,599, a record-high number that is far greater than initial estimates suggested, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Failures in U.N. management of the Iraq oil-for-food program may have permitted excess payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to governments and companies, according to 55 internal audits of the humanitarian program. The excess payments were made even as then-President Saddam Hussein was stealing billions from the program.
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More than &#36;8 million has been donated by corporations and individuals to fund President Bush's reinauguration ceremonies, according to figures released Thursday.
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About &#36;92 million of the &#36;350 million that the Bush administration pledged for tsunami relief assistance has been spent so far, a U.S. government official said Friday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Ottawa confirms federal budget surplus of &#36;9.1 billion.
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Major economic powers agreed Sunday to write off more than &#36;31 billion in debt for Iraq in a deal that boosted U.S. efforts to help put the Iraqi economy back on its feet.
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A Senate panel says it has obtained Iraqi documents providing new evidence that the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program made up to &#36;1.2 million through oil deals with Saddam Hussein's government.
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Despite President Bush's promise to spend  $9 billion on reconstruction contracts in Iraq in the next  several months, administration and congressional officials said  on Thursday it could take more than a year to actually pay out  that much money for projects.
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The team collecting private donations to finance President Bush's inaugural festivities has taken in &#36;18 million, putting it nearly halfway to its goal of at least &#36;40 million.
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More than 40 percent of Pentagon business, a total of $362 billion, has been awarded on a no-bid basis over the last six years.
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The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings, an audit finds.
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Iraq cleared around $81 million in  debt it owed the International Monetary Fund late last week,  fund sources said on Monday, opening the way for the first aid  to flow from the global lender to Iraq.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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The United Nations overpaid as much as $5 billion to individuals, companies and Persian Gulf states for losses in Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, according to audits.
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Saddam Hussein made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraq's leader through shrewd schemes to secretly buy off dozens of countries, top foreign officials and major international figures,  said a new report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector released yesterday.
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The Bush administration has  overstated U.S.-funded job figures in Iraq due to what the  government said was an accounting error, but critics say may be  a bid to paint a rosier picture on the ground.