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remember your future is Bright with Jesus Jesus wort outreach Center 0622i6030 Book online International contract corruption task Force was part of the latest department of defense in Spector generals report to con As a result of the magnitude of alleged criminal activity with in the iraqi a group of Federal agencies has formalized their partnership to investigate contract fraud and Public corruption related to Iraq reconstruct the report the task Force will be made up of agents from the the de sense criminal investigative ser the army criminal investigative the special in Spector general for Iraq recon As Well As officials from the inspector generals of fice at the Agency for International development and the state the congressional report was released on May 24 and covers the inspector generals activities from through March the offices accomplishments in the six month period include 77 audits that identified million in achieved monetary benefits and million Worth of recommendations 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sensitive military technology from an undercover Busi Ness run by Federal they had obtained a night vision de vice and Holographic weapons sights for the liberation tamil tigers a sri lankan the report also covered the is role in investigating the governments recovery Effort from hurricanes katrina and As of the Dis has received 27 allegations of criminal activity related to the Hurri and agents have opened 10 investigations concerning false claims and possible product subs Titu while the in has been Success Ful in combating some a senior fellow at the Center for strategic and budgetary assess ments said the problem will con in any business there is going to be some said Dakota a retired Marine corps lieutenant colonel who served during the 2003 iraqi invasion and now works for the Independent policy research in to go into a War zone and expect everyone to be on the Upa Dup is probably unreal is Wood said there is no Quick when you look at the size of Iraq and the number of people you simply dont have the manpower to apply against the he its like anything to do with theres no simple Emall Bryan Mitchell at Maya a Soldier from Bravo 4th 31st infantry regiment searches for two captured american soldiers in Iraq last insurgents in Iraq increasingly Are staging carefully Complex ambushes and retaliatory attacks As they target officials insurgent attacks on troops grow More deadly by Ann Scott Tyson and John Ward Anderson the Washington Post Washington As troops push More deeply into Baghdad and its volatile out iraqi insurgents Are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal Means of including bigger Roadside bombs that Are resulting in greater numbers of american fatalities relative to the number of insurgents Are deploying deeply buried munitions set up to protect their territory and mounting Complex ambushes that demonstrate their ability to respond rapidly to a new counterinsurgency strategy has resulted in decreased civilian deaths in Baghdad but has placed thousands of additional american troops at greater risk in Small outposts in the capital and other parts of the it is very Clear that the num Ber of attacks against forces is up and that they have grown More effective in especially in recent said James Deputy commander for operations in at the same he attacks on iraqi Security forces have declined citing Fig ures that compare the period of mid february to Midway to the preceding three the attacks Are being directed at us and not against other peo he with 127 american Fatali was the third deadliest month for troops since the 2003 As in the conflicts two deadliest months for troops 137 died in november 2004 and 135 in april of that year the overarching cause of Mays toll is the Large scale military opera Simmons called the High losses in May a very pain Ful and heart wrenching expert the intensity of combat and the greater lethality of attacks on troops is underscored by the lower ratio of wounded to killed for which fell to about to 1 compared with an aver age of 8 to 1 in the Iraq according Pentagon the closer you get to a standup the closer youre going to get to that 3tol ratio that typified 20thcentury said John director of globalise a defense information web Simmons said that i the number of armo piercing weapons known As explosively formed projectiles roughly matched the april High of and the main source of increased deaths was Large and buried or improvised explosive deaths have risen sharply in some of Baghdad outlying re such As Dyala where sunni and shiite groups have escalated sectarian Vio Lence and fought Back hard against american forces moving into their Safe extremists on both sides of this thing Are trying to make a statement by at tacking Simmons insurgents Are also staging carefully Complex am Bushes and retaliatory attacks As they target military officials while few in these in clude direct assaults on Mili tary ambushes in which american troops have been and Complex at tacks that use multiple weapons to strike More than one tar for attackers will bomb a patrol and then target ground forces or aircraft that come to its we Are starting to see More sophistication and training in their said a senior Mili tary official in while the vast majority of attacks Are still relatively simple and involve a single Type of clearly the trend is going in the wrong he speak ing on condition of anonymity be cause he was not authorized to speak to
