Watchdog Finds Many Iraq Reconstruction Projects Subpar

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Parsons Inc. seems to be just walking away from a mess,leaving millions of dollars gone.

JEFFREY KAYE, Reporter, KCET: Amid pomp and circumstance, hundreds of cadets graduated this summer from the newly rebuilt Baghdad Police Academy. The $73 million project was supposed to be a showpiece of America's Iraq reconstruction program. But to critics, it's an icon of incompetence; to others, it shows the challenge of rebuilding in a war zone.

Pictures taken by investigators two months after the graduation showed human waste dripping from ceilings in the eight dormitories. One leaky room was nicknamed the "rain forest." The photos and descriptions are contained in a report issues by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, Jr.



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