The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
916.
According to
US data for 2005, 2006 and 2009, over 1,000 civilians from
US
Government
agencies (including the State Department and USAID) were deployed
to
the
Embassy, REOs and PRTs (see Table 6).
917.
The figure of
1,000 excludes the large number of US civilian contractors
employed
by the US
Mission. A July 2009 report by the Special Inspector General for
Iraq
Reconstruction
recorded that, at that time, 4,079 US civilians were contracted to
the State
Department
in Iraq, 34,846 to the DoD and 8,948 to other agencies, including
USAID.602
918.
Without
detailed information on the jobs performed by UK and US
contractors, it is
not
possible to be certain that they were deployed in equivalent roles
or to draw a direct
comparison
between UK and US statistics.
919.
A comparison
of data from 2005, 2006 and 2009 suggests that the UK provided
an
average of
approximately 6.5 percent of the combined total of US and UK
government
employees603
in post‑CPA
Iraq (see Table 6). When DFID (but not US) contractors
are
included,
the figure is above 9 percent.
March
2005
March
2006
July
2009
US civilian
staff excluding contractors604
UK civilian
staff excluding DFID contractors
US/UK total
excluding DFID contractors
UK share of
total excluding DFID contractors
55
1,113
4.9%
75
1,112
6.8%
97
1,273
7.6%
UK civilian
staff including DFID contractors608
US/UK total
including DFID contractors
UK share of
total including DFID contractors
604605606607608609
1,163
8.9%
1,181
11.3%
1,285
8.2%
920.
From 2003 to
2009, DFID consistently deployed significantly more contractors
than
civil
servants to Iraq (see Figure 5). The underlying data are reproduced
in Table 10 at
the end of
this Section.
602
Special
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Quarterly
Report and Semiannual Report to the
United States
Congress, July 30, 2009.
603
The
calculation excludes US contractors, DFID contractors, UK security
contractors, UK civilians
supporting
the military and UK police.
604
US‑based
government employees in the US Embassy, REOs and PRTs.
605
United
States Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Office of Inspector
General,
March 2005, Review of
Staffing at US Embassy Baghdad.
606
Epstein,
Susan B, CRS Report for Congress, 24 October 2006, US Embassy
in Iraq.
607
United
States Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Office of Inspector
General,
July 2009, Report of
Inspection: Embassy Baghdad, Iraq.
608
UK‑based
DFID and FCO staff and DFID consultants in Iraq (excluding Op
TELIC). See Table 8.
609
June 2009.
See Table 8.
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