Iraq could have $79B surplus
Soaring oil prices will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year's end, according to an American federal oversight agency. But...
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House panel questions oil deal with Iraq Kurds
Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with ties to President George W. Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government in Iraq...
U.S. probe of arms fraud in Iraq widens
Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchasing and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other materiel to Iraqi and American...
Halliburton subsidiary accused of hiding data
A Halliburton subsidiary that has been subjected to numerous investigations for billions of dollars of contracts it has received for work in Iraq has systematically misused federal rules to withhold...
Army cancels rebuilding contract
The Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it had canceled the work remaining on a $70 million project to refurbish 20 hospitals scattered around Iraq, deepening a dispute with...
At least 3 Iraqis dead in raid on Baghdad mosque
American and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that...
Iraqis: Munitions looted after invasion
Looters stormed the weapons site at Al Qaqaa in the days after U.S. troops swept through the area in early April 2003 on their way to Baghdad, gutting office buildings,...
Projects, jobs fewer than U.S. promised
The four big smokestacks at the Doura power plant in Baghdad have always served as subversive truth-tellers. No matter what Saddam Hussein's propagandists said about electricity supplies, people knew they...
Credentials of hired help questioned
The military's reliance on civilians to serve as interrogators and translators in Iraq is now so great that many people are being sent abroad without complete background checks or being...
Report details factors behind WTC collapse
Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses all largely failed in the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11 in the face of a blaze so intense that...