Afghanistan, Iraq among most corrupt countries in world

[NNN0LHI]

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=123155

BERLIN: Iraq is the most corrupt country in the Middle East, and Afghanistan leads a nest of nations in Central Asia that fail the corruption test.

The Berlin-based Transparency International's 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released Wednesday, showed more than two-thirds of the 159 nations surveyed, scored less than 5 out of a clean score of 10, indicating serious levels of corruption in a majority of the countries surveyed, says a Irish Sun report.

Iraq's score of 2.2 was near the bottom of the barrel as was Afghanistan's score of 2.5. The worst countries were Bangladesh and Chad with a score of 1.7. The former Soviet states that form Central Asia all performed badly, with Afghanistan the worst.

Indonesia showed no signs of recovering from the Suharto era by scoring the same as Iraq at 2.2. Earthquake-ravaged Pakistan did slightly worse at 2.1.

[mmonk]

1. See

bush's and the neocons' plans are working.

[burrowowl]

2. The Bu$h Maladministration

should be put the U$ on the list.

[DemInDistress]

3. We just LIBERATED those 2 countries

how could they be so corrupt? Ingrates or just like the good old USA?