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Ex-Iraqi Official: $13 Billion in Reconstruction Money Lost

HeadlineSep 23, 2008

In other Iraq news, a former Iraqi official told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on Monday that more than $13 billion sent by the US for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen through elaborate fraud schemes.

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