Officials indict 5 in Iraq contract scam
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Three U.S. Army Reserve officers were indicted Wednesday, accused of taking part in a bid-rigging scam that steered millions of dollars for Iraq reconstruction projects to a contractor in exchange for cash, luxury cars and jewelry.
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Top secret plans for attacking Iraq were drawn five months before the war started, a court martial hears.
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Five Canadian men believed to be part of an international drugs syndicate have been charged with trying to smuggle cocaine worth 35 million dollars (26 million US) into Australia, police said.
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Five suspected members of the Red Brigades terrorist group went on trial Monday for their alleged roles in the 2002 killing of a labor consultant.
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The Red Sox snared five season-ticket holders in a ticket-scalping sting last weekend during the Sox-Yankees series, a team official said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - An American-owned company operating from Kuwait paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to American contracting officers in efforts to win more than $11 million in contracts, the government contends in court documents.
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U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, according to a former official with the U.S. occupation government.
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Police in Northern Ireland said they  had charged five people on Monday with Real IRA membership and  possessing explosives after the weekend discovery of a small  cache of incendiary devices.
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A statement posted on a Web site  purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two  French hostages set a $5 million ransom on Monday and a 48-hour  deadline for its demands to be met.
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Major John Lee Cockerham was considered an unlikely success story in his hometown, now he and his family are facing corruption charges related to contracts in Iraq.
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By Tom Spoth, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 11--In February 2004, a company in Burlington received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army.
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Says talk with Army official who claims contractor was awarded unfair Iraq contracts is routine. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Law enforcement sources told CNN Thursday that the FBI has made a formal request to interview
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The Iraqi government has given Shi&#39;ite militiamen five days to hand in weapons under a weekend peace agreement. National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said the Iraqi interim government will commit more than
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Five terrorists have been arrested in Pakistan on charges of plotting to attack top Pakistani politicians and the US embassy, a minister was quoted as saying Sunday.
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U.S. Army officials said they are conducting an extensive review and analysis of thousands of contracts that were performed at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait over the past four years, as allegations of procurement fraud and bribery at the base have erupted.
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Five men accused of a string of offences related to training camps for Islamist extremists were seen using techniques used by Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban, a court heard Friday.
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The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday designated five individuals for providing financial support to al Qaeda and other terror groups and for facilitating "terrorist" activity.