The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

To win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, military experts want U.S. companies to contract with local firms for a variety of tasks li

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"… , and federal investigators:Up to $300 million in subcontracts in Iraq and Kuwait were allegedly tainted by a Saudi-based subcontractor employee’s kickbac …"

"… ited States is unable to determine how Tamimi’s top manager for Iraq and Kuwait obtained at least $133,000 to bribe KBR employees for subcontracts. In 200 …"

"… win $21.8 million in subcontracts to supply food to troops in in Iraq and Kuwait.Tamimi has refused to turn over its financial records to the Defense Contr …"

Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. helped midwife a terrorist

By Ahmed Rashid

A history of U.S. involvement in Central Asia, leading to the rise of Muslim radicals in 43 countries.

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"… beks from Soviet Central Asia, Arabs from Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and Uighurs from Xinjiang in China who had all come to fight with the Muj …"

"… den gave money to the families of those killed. After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait he lobbied the Royal Family to organize a popular defense of the kingdom a …"

Bush's insider connections preceded huge profit on stock deal

By Knut Royce

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2000 — The year 1986 was very good for George W. Bush. ...

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"… o raise the cash in the nick of time—just three days before Iraq invaded Kuwait, setting in motion huge gasoline-price increases that drove numerous small …"

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New global energy payments index may get boost from SEC

By Julie Vorman

A new Revenue Watch Index that measures disclosure about oil industry payments in 41 countries may soon have access to a gusher of details a

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"… 0.At or near the bottom of the index were Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia.The two non-profit groups plan to update the inde …"

Kuwait contractor could be banned for security lapses

By Julie Vorman

A military contractor providing key services for U.S. soldiers in Kuwait should be banned from future contracts because some of its employee

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"… io (GAO). …"

"… table and poses a security risk for military, civilian, and contractors in Kuwait,” the Pentagon’s inspector general said in a sternly-worded report. Al …"

"… nalysis and Maintenance Inc.The contract was overseen by Army officials in Kuwait until late 2007 when the secretary of the Army transferred it to the Rock …"

One-fourth of Pentagon’s war zone pay to civilians was improper

By Julie Vorman

The Pentagon improperly spent $57.7 million on danger and hardship pay and other special allowances and pay differentials for nearly 9,000 c

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"… raq danger pay allowance rate of 35 percent even though they were still in Kuwait, which has a danger pay allowance rate of 15 percent. Another employee lef …"

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The looting of Russia

By David E. Kaplan and Christian Caryl

WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked

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"… n,” says Jack Immendorf, who was then a top adviser to San Francisco’s mayor and who would later be tapped to serve as CEO of Golden ADA. Bychkov had k …"

"… Chubais, then managing Yeltsin’s re-election campaign; Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow; Alexander Korzhakov, head of Yeltsin’s Presidential Security …"

Journalism with teeth

By Philip Knightley

LONDON, July 17, 1999 — Western media follow a depressingly familiar formula when it comes to the preparation of a nation for conflict....

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"… ler’s name provokes. So when George Bush Sr likened Iraq’s takeover of Kuwait with the Nazi blitzkrieg in Europe in the 1930s, the media quickly took up …"

"… re true – after all, war itself is an atrocity – many are not.Take the Kuwaiti babies story. Its origins go back to the first world war when British pro …"

"… d for the Gulf war, this version had Iraqi soldiers bursting into a modern Kuwaiti hospital, finding the premature babies ward and then tossing the babies o …"

"… hat was soon rectified. An organisation calling itself Citizens for a Free Kuwait (financed by the Kuwaiti government in exile) had signed a $10m contract w …"

Letter from London: A history lesson on Iraq

By Philip Knightley

'If you think Saddam Hussein is a hard man to deal with, just wait for the next generation of Iraqi leaders,' author says

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"… s in dealing with the Kurds in Iraq, his war with Iran and his invasion of Kuwait, it is hard to conceive that there are younger Iraqi leaders who believe S …"

Interview: Unprecedented opportunity

Rami Khouri, a veteran editor and reporter who currently serves as editor-at-large for the Lebanese English language newspaper, The Daily St

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"… implement U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on Iraq to get out of Kuwait, please implement the Security Council resolutions asking the Israelis to …"

"… aq now and we saw it in the first Gulf War against Iraq when Iraq attacked Kuwait. There’s a kind of rolling motive, rolling rationale that comes out of t …"

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