SIGIR Quarterly + Semi-Annual Report to Congress – July 2007
“To date, SIGIR has completed 95 project assessments, 96 limited on-site inspections, and 342 aerial assessments. In three of the four sustainment reviews completed this quarter, SIGIR found that projects were not being sustained properly.” [Image from the Report Pictures page.].
One of these days I’ll get the formatting right . . .
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The conclusions, detailed in a report released by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), a federal oversight agency, include the finding that of 2,797 completed projects costing $5.8 billion, Iraq’s national government had, by the spring of this year, accepted only 435 projects valued at $501 million. Few transfers to Iraqi national government control have taken place since the current Iraqi government, which is frequently criticized for inaction on matters relating to the U.S. intervention, took office in 2006.
The United States often promotes the number of rebuilding projects, such as power plants and hospitals, that have been completed in Iraq, citing them as signs of progress in a nation otherwise fraught with violence and political stalemate. But closer examination by the inspector general’s office, headed by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., has found that a number of individual projects are crumbling, abandoned or otherwise inoperative only months after the United States declares that they have been successfully completed.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."