AFGHAN AMMO: The State Department’s top investigator will examine allegations that the senior U.S. diplomat in Albania aided in a cover-up of the illegal source of ammunition a U.S. military contractor shipped to Afghanistan’s security forces. Tom Casey, a department spokesman, said Tuesday the agency’s inspector general has been asked “to go and look at these charges.”
PAKISTAN AID: The U.S. has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counterterrorism expenses that have often been exaggerated, if not fabricated, according to a government audit released Tuesday. The report said the Pentagon could not account for as much as $2 billion in payments between 2004 and to 2007.
IRAQI OIL: Iraq will create a fourth state-owned oil company to develop reserves in the province of Maysan, the oil minister said.
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