Ex-Iraqi Electricity Chief Named in Graft Inquiry

[NVMojo]

(when is Cheney's ass going to be on the line?)

Published: August 13, 2006

The former Iraqi electricity minister and several other current and former senior government officials have been charged with corruption or ordered to appear before judges, Iraqi officials announced Saturday. It was the newest development in an investigation that began two years ago.

The cases, referred to an Iraqi court by the Commission for Public Integrity, accuse officials from various departments of misdeeds ranging from stealing money and accepting kickbacks to assigning millions of dollars to phantom rebuilding contracts that appeared on paper and nowhere else, commission officials said.

In the continuing fighting in Iraq, the United States military said late Friday night that American troops had killed 26 rebels and wounded six in a gun battle in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province and a stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency.

Among those newly named in the corruption investigation are Muhsin Shlash, a professional engineer who until recently ran the Electricity Ministry, a department that has received billions of dollars in reconstruction money over the past three years but has made far less progress than expected.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?ex=1313121600&en=18b8a2a3c7571ad0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[acmavm]

1. The Iraqis in the puppet government were accepting bribes and

stealing?

What is the world coming to?

[WhiteTara]

2. wow, they set up their government to run

just like the bushits do. Amazing how that works.