No, not Iraq, Germany. Seems incompetence is running rampant everywhere.
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=47247The $200 million ‘white elephant’
Ramstein mall-hotel project in limbo with serious problems and few easy solutions
By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Excerpts from GAO report
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — When German and American military officials broke ground for the 844,000-square-foot mall and hotel complex at this base, they pointed to the project as an example of their cooperation.
Once envisioned as the crown jewel of the Air Force’s plan to revamp its largest base in Europe, the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center has now been called a $200 million “white elephant.”
More than 2½ years after construction began, congressional investigators and auditors report the U.S. military’s largest single construction project is beset by poor coordination, vandalism, insufficient oversight, fraud allegations, shoddy work, faulty design and contractor work stoppages. The project is more than a year behind schedule. It is expected to cost millions more than contracted and no completion date is in sight.Americans stationed in the area have known for months about some of the problems and the delays, but new details that have emerged expose troubles much worse than initially revealed publicly. The fallout could affect morale, welfare and recreation programs and military construction at bases beyond Kaiserslautern and across Europe.
There is plenty of blame going around as work on some parts of the site has ground to a halt.
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