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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 2. september 2011 / Timeline September 2, 2011

1. September 2011, 3. September 2011

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Amerikansk økonomi for viderekommende
Den amerikanske anvendelse af lejesoldarter i Irak og Afghanistan har medført økonomiske uregelmæssigheder af et omfang som endnu ikke er kendt, selv efter et fælles kongresudvalgs flere års forskning i problematikken.
Commission on Wartime Contracting to study U.S. wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan: Transforming Wartime Contracting Controlling costs, reducing risks http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/docs/CWC_FinalReport-lowres.pdf
At least $31 billion, and possibly as much as $60 billion, has been lost to contract waste and fraud in America’s contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Much more will turn into waste as attention to continuing operations wanes, as U.S. support for projects and programs in Iraq and Afghanistan declines, and as those efforts are revealed as unsustainable. This sobering, but conservative, estimate flows from nearly three years’ work by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, an independent and bipartisan panel created by Congress in 2008 to examine waste, fraud, abuse, accountability, and other issues in contingency contracting, and to make recommendations for improvement.
The number of Department of Defense (Defense), Department of State (State), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractor employees in Iraq and Afghanistan has varied, but exceeded 260,000 in 2010. The contractoremployee count has at times surpassed the number of U.S. military personnel in the two countries. Most contractor employees are third-country nationals and local nationals; U.S. nationals totaled more than 46,000,
Conclusion
The need for reform is urgent. Over the past decade, America’s military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors’ support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud.

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