Iraq Contractor's Work Is Further Criticized
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The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that human waste dripped from the ceilings has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress yesterday.
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When Halliburton was awarded contracts worth more than $12 billion for work in Iraq, critics said that the company was using its political connections to reap big profits.
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An armed group has beheaded an Iraqi contractor, accusing him of working alongside US forces, according to a video released on an Islamic website on Saturday.
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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military. -The Washington Post
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The controversial awarding of a key Iraqi oil contract to US giant Halliburton is now being investigated by the FBI, it has been claimed.
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Reacting to criticism that the United States has not provided the right equipment to Iraqi security forces, the Multi-National Command in Baghdad has been seeking a contractor to put armor on 1,300 American-made SUVs and pickup trucks used by the Iraqi National Police.
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Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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About 1,000 contractors have been killed in Iraq since the war began and nearly 13,000 have been injured.
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A man who worked in Iraq for a Herndon-based security company is accused in a lawsuit of firing twice into Iraqi civilian vehicles last summer without provocation, possibly killing at least one person.
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A US contract for training Iraqi police was so badly managed that auditors do not know how the money was spent.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq&#39;s transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous
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Two U.S. contractors implicated in  the Abu Ghraib prison scandal defended their work in Iraq  Thursday, with one saying its employees were not involved in  "horrendous" abuses listed in a new report.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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Fraud committed by government contractors in Iraq is a problem but isn't as severe as some critics have suggested, federal officials said Tuesday.
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by US private contractors.
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A human rights group filed its second lawsuit against Blackwater Worldwide contractors Wednesday, accusing the security firm of killing an Iraqi rug salesman in a September shooting.
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The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.