US audit: $200M wasted on Iraqi police training
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US. auditors have concluded that more than $200 million was wasted on a program to train Iraqi police that Baghdad says is neither needed nor wanted.
The Police Development Program, which was drawn up to be the single largest State Department program in the world, was envisioned as a five-year, multibillion-dollar push to train security forces after the US. military left last December. But Iraqi political leaders, anxious to keep their distance from the Americans, were unenthusiastic. (AP)
