Auditors sent to Iraq to probe contracts
Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2007
The Pentagon is sending a team of investigators to Iraq because of the growing number of cases of fraud and other irregularities in contracts involving weapons and supplies for Iraqi forces
...... In the most recent high-profile contract probe, the Government Accountability Office said last month that the Pentagon cannot fully account for $19.2 billion worth of equipment provided to Iraqi security forces.
The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, said it had reviewed records of the U.S. unit running the program to train and equip Iraqi forces and couldn't account for what happened to least 190,000 weapons. U.S. officials, while acknowledging that some might have fallen into the hands of militants, said the majority of weapons went to Iraqi security forces but that records weren't property kept to show that.