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U.S. Air Force paid almost $32M for an Iraqi base never built
"The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.
The project had to be abandoned because the Iraqi Defense Ministry couldn’t obtain rights to the land where the headquarters was to be built, according to a report released this month by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General. Contracting records show the buildings would have housed one brigade and three battalions of the Iraqi military in Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni Muslim insurgency and capital of Anbar province.
Still, the Air Force agency overseeing the project paid contractor Ellis Environmental Group $31.9 million of the $34.2 million obligated for the project, the report said."
U.S. paid $32M for an Iraqi base never built - Air Force News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Air Force Times
"The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.
The project had to be abandoned because the Iraqi Defense Ministry couldn’t obtain rights to the land where the headquarters was to be built, according to a report released this month by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General. Contracting records show the buildings would have housed one brigade and three battalions of the Iraqi military in Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni Muslim insurgency and capital of Anbar province.
Still, the Air Force agency overseeing the project paid contractor Ellis Environmental Group $31.9 million of the $34.2 million obligated for the project, the report said."
U.S. paid $32M for an Iraqi base never built - Air Force News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Air Force Times
