Posted on 01/08/2015 3:06:00 AM PST by huldah1776
A U.S.-funded power plant and fueling station at an Afghan military complex in Kabul were barely functioning nearly two years after contractors finished building them, a watchdog report said.
Another U.S.-backed project, a dining hall for soldiers at the Afghan National Army’s Camp Commando, was serving more than five times the number of people it was built to handle.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction encountered difficulty in inspecting the three facilities due to lost records that would have shown when they were tested and commissioned in its report on the camp.
Together, the power plant, fueling station and dining hall cost $18.7 million after multiple contract modifications by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The $7 million power plant had four main generators, with a fifth meant to serve as a back-up. All four were supposed to be able to run at once to handle peak power demands, but inspectors discovered only one of the generators could operate at a time because the equipment wasn’t functioning properly, SIGAR said.
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In Iraq, as soon as we built the project - they would scrap everything and take pieces back to their home - they didn’t care about the WHOLE - just themselves...most projects ended up never being complete because of all the payouts for favors to do a simple job...once an Iraqi contractor (usually an engineer, because everyone over there has that degree) gets a contract - he pays different people - who in turn pay different people - to do a job...by the time the person who can do the job gets paid to show up - there’s no money for supplies...
It why Saddam brought in Foreigners to complete the important stuff...he didn’t trust the Arab culture way of business to get it done!
Same principles in place in Afghanistan it seems...
They live in dirt and want to stay there...let them!
What a surprise
Sounds just like a lot of ghetto project right here in the U.S.
Centuries of inbreeding on display. Many of the smart ones are warped by centuries of dysfunctional culture and insanity inspired religion.
Had I filed a military Fraud, Waste, and Abuse complaint - I would have had to list IRAQ as a whole...
Corruption causes the 3rd World.
I suppose that mindset was taken into account by Petraeus when he developed the COIN strategy? Winning hearts and minds—not. Can’t buy love, General, just feeds the greed.
No different then Mexico or all of Latin America.
Yet they flood in to the U.S. bringing all of that evil in their heads.
At least Iraqi Shiites can’t make it to the U.S. in any significant numbers. They have an ocean to cross.
But we have a marching army coming from the South with the same attitudes, culture and grievances and all they have to do is walk in.
Do we let them?
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