Premier Of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors, (New York Times)…James Glanz and Riyadh Mohammed
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.