Army looking for fraud in Iraq contracts

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com Beginning Monday, Army investigators will look for fraud in the awarding of the roughly 6,000 Iraq war contracts worth $2.8 billion. A team of 10 auditors, criminal investigators and acquisition experts will assemble at a large Army acquisition center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit, to review an initial 314 contracts awarded at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. Each contract is worth more than $25,000 and was issued between 2003 and 2006 at the camp, which military officials have "identified as a hub of corruption," the Associated Press writes. A separate team at Camp Arifjan is examining 339 contracts of lesser value. Here's the complete AP report.