Corrupt Iraqi officials are pocketing the pay of thousands of "ghost" policemen and soldiers who exist only on paper

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Corrupt officials ain't what they used to be

Captain Renault: This is the end of the chase.
Rick: Twenty thousand francs says it isn't.
Captain Renault: Is that a serious offer?
Rick: I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back.
Captain Renault: Make it ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official.

In Iraq, evidently, the corrupt officials are anything but poor.

From "Human rights laws ‘apply to Iraq death,’" by Michael Settle for The Herald:

Meanwhile, corrupt Iraqi officials are pocketing the pay of thousands of "ghost" policemen and soldiers who exist only on paper, a senior US officer claimed yesterday.

Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey, who until recently headed coalition military training teams in Iraq, said the payroll scam went as high as the governors of the Shi'ite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.

The general estimated up to 20% of the declared security force manpower in the two cities were part of the "ghost army" providing senior officials with a second income or retirement nest-egg.

But it also meant, when Iraqi units were mobilised for active duty, average turnout was 50% of their declared strength.

"Iraqi army rolls are also inflated by soldiers who have been severely wounded but are still being paid because the government lacks funds and a system for retiring them on a pension," General Dempsey added. "Units which showed up in Baghdad at half strength for 90-day rotations left US officers angered by the poor turnout."

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Billions of dollars are unaccounted for, and there are widespread allegations of waste, fraud and war profiteering. As 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft first reported in February, only one case, the subject of a civil lawsuit, has been unsealed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/main1302378.shtml

Sounds like a song:

Where have all the dollars gone,
Long time passing;

Where have all the dollars gone,
Long time ago ....

When will they ever learn;
When will they ever learn?

Thursday morning, the Hamas Executive Force occupied the building. Half-naked Fatah prisoners are being paraded in the streets, some reportedly executed there. Masked Hamas fighters seized their US-made and Israeli equipment vehicle number plates in the fortified building constructed with US military aid funds, atop which flies a green Hamas flag.

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Quick george, grab some more US tax dollars so we can prop up Abbas; we can just do a direct deposit into his Swiss accounts.

...maybe a commission or merit pay system needs to be installed...


...like..bring in a captured rifle... earn $10.00
....bring in captured RPG.....earn $20.00
....bring in IED/IED triggers...earn $40.00
....bring in captured machine gun...earn $40.00
....bring in captured mortar...earn $50.00
....bring in captured Iranian "diplomat"earn $100.00
....bring in captured Syrian "diplomat" earn $100.00
....bring in captured Al-Qaeda "important leader" earn $100.00
....bring in proof of corrupt Iraqi officials, earn $100.00
....bring in dead terrorist, earn $50.00
....bring in captured Chinese or Russian Military officer, earn $500.00.


....we could make the Iraqi police very efficient...and it would cost us less money...

Corrupt Iraqi officials are pocketing the pay of thousands of "ghost" policemen and soldiers who exist only on paper

Deja vu!

Remember round about the time Abbas was Prime Minister under President Arafat there were some 60 thousand security personel on Tenet and the CIA's books whereas there were only 40 thousand in actual fact?

I have to point out this is an improvement from Saddam times. Under Saddam the Iraq soldiers would not receive any pay. It was all kept by the officers.

General Petreaus;

There’s this thing, its called a muster. Most military units do them daily. If you look at the results of musters objectively, they tell you exactly who’s in your army.

If your army is unable to muster, you don’t have one. Us folks back home should be cut into the loop if the Iraqi security forces we are paying for are unable to muster. Thank you.

Somehow, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" doesn’t apply here.
But, "I stick my neck out for nobody" does.

Off-topic:

Robert, just the other day I bought a book with Claude Rains' ex libris. What do you think of that?

To Muslims, suckers/infidels are to be robbed, if not killed.

Since they can't kill us very efficiently at present, they have to be content with stealing our treasure.

To fund the future killing.

And our blind leadership is happy to oblige.

With dreams of embassies dancing in their empty heads.

(To be sharply removed if all continues on this demented course.)

Iraq is a tarbaby with a rathole for a navel.

As abysmal as Mohammad's heart.


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