A report from the US administrations Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, said a system for transfering completed public works projects from the US military to the Iraqi government was "broken."
"Since June 2006, the GOI (government of Iraq) has not formally accepted a single IRRF (Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund) project," he said.
One project singled out for criticism was a Baghdad power station, which was rebuilt at a cost of 90 million dollars but broke down when inexperienced Iraqi engineers cannibalised one power plant to fix another and broke both.
Baghdad's residents are now lucky to get two hours of electricity per day.
(From an AFP report on Yahoo)
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