The State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) awarded the contract.

NPR: State Dept. Fails to Account for Iraqi Police Contract

"Lack of controls" and "serious contract management issues" at the INL bureau made it "vulnerable to waste and fraud, " he said.

NPR: State Dept. Fails to Account for Iraqi Police Contract

Jalal Talabani, the Kurd who is Iraq's (mostly figurehead) president, says that he will not support Mr Jaafari unless he brings into the government the Iraqi National List (INL).

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