Contractor says Pentagon directed it to hire Wolfowitz's companion in '03

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Source: International Herald Tribune

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"The Defense Department directed a private contractor in 2003 to hire Shaha Ali Riza, a World Bank employee and the companion of Paul Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense, to spend a month studying issues related to setting up a new government in Iraq, the contractor said.

The contractor, Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said Monday that it had been directed to hire Riza by the office of the under secretary for policy. The head of that office at the time was Douglas Feith, who reported to Wolfowitz.

After her trip to Iraq, Riza briefed members of the executive board of the World Bank on efforts to rebuild after the U.S. invasion and specifically on the status of Iraqi women, according to Riza's supervisor at the time.

Riza has been at the center of a controversy at the World Bank involving the role of Wolfowitz, now the World Bank president, in giving her a raise, promotions and a transfer from the bank in 2005, when he arrived to assume the bank's presidency."


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