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In Baghdad, U.S. Embassy Project Faces New Scrutiny
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The State Department has ordered a "top-to-bottom" examination of its beleaguered Baghdad embassy project, and it has pushed back the date for the complex's opening, McClatchy reports.
Already tens of millions of dollars over budget, the project is the subject of two other State Department probes and a Justice Department criminal investigation. Virtually since its inception, the project has been the reported victim of cost overruns, shoddy workmanship, and allegations of human trafficking and fraud.
Though the complex was originally scheduled to open last September, State's construction chief Richard Shinnick told McClatchy he hopes to complete the new review, fix all problems and open the facility by March 31.
Shinnick is not calling that a "target date," though, he said. Past deadlines have led the builders to rush work on the project. "That's not the message I want to send."
February 28, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
Ah - your tax dollars at work.
Posted by: kerrAvon | Feb 29, 2008 6:45:37 PM
"Iraqi oil revenues will pay for all phases of reconstruction" - Paul Bremer, loosely quoted - Just another Imperial outpost on the Eastern Borders of the Globalistas' "Enterprise". Once the planet is ringed about with these high-bid/no-bid Embassies and "Enduring Bases" and such, we can all just be screwed blind without a genuinely happy neighbor nor real friend left in this world. Not that such a condition might mean anything at all, to any terrormongerin' feckless no-brainz NeoCon by then in power as King of New Amerikkka and all those pretty post-NAFTA pastel paper AMEROS! I don't want that.
Posted by: Walking Turtle | Mar 14, 2008 11:40:01 PM
Sounds like the another Boston BIG DIG project
Posted by: spacerook | Mar 17, 2008 10:44:38 PM
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