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The senior civilian official who managed the military's largest contract in Iraq says he was reassigned in 2004 when he refused to approve more than $1 billion in charges to KBR until the Houston company provided credible spending records, The New York Times reported.

Messrs Gordon and Trainor, a leading military affairs journalist and retired Marine general respectively, have produced a definitive chronicle of the war from the perspective of senior civilian officials in Washington, the top military brass in the Pentagon and ordinary soldiers on the ground in Iraq.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, in a room on the eighth floor office of New Scotland Yard, Sir Ian heads a meeting of the Met's management board, attended by officers of Assistant Commissioner rank upwards and senior civilian officials.

Byline: ANDREW WALKER A HIGH-RANKING policeman and a senior civilian official at the centre of an exam probe have quit through illness.

substantially cut the number of senior Service officers, the number of senior civilian officials appears to have increased significantly.

Nemfakos, Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy and Senior Civilian Official in the OASN (FM&C) Mrs.

Money was Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD/C3I) for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence from October 1999 until April 2001; Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense, from February 1998 to April 2001; Senior Civilian Official, Office of the ASD, from February 1998 to October 1999; and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Acquisition from January 1996 to February 1998.

A senior civilian official said troops had arrested dozens of people inside the compound and that part of the madrassa had caught fire.