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Press Secretary - U.S. House Rep. Carolyn Maloney

Empty prison in Iraq a $40M 'failure'

By Andrew B. Einhorn Jul 29 2008, 09:06 AM

In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misguided planning and construction shortcuts costing $40 million and stretching back to the American overseers who replaced Saddam Hussein.

"It's a bit of a monument in the desert right now because it's not going to be used as a prison..."

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