Washington, Sha'ban 7, 1435, Jun 5, 2014, SPA -- General Motors Company (GM) chief executive Mary Barra said Thursday that the automaker would take full responsibility for the faulty ignition scandal and compensate victims of accidents tied to the defects. Barra said the history of the ignitions on Chevrolet Cobalts and other models, which led to at least 13 deaths, was “riddled with failure,” but there was no management conspiracy to cover up 11 years of inaction. Barra said after the completion of an independent investigation that GM had fired 15 officials, more than half of them executives, for their incorrect or irresponsible actions. “The Cobalt was riddled with failure,” Barra told a meeting of company employees. “We misdiagnosed the problem from the very beginning. … We have to own this problem.” Despite the involvement of senior executives in the failure to remedy the ignition problem when it was known, Barra said the findings of the probe by former federal prosecutor Anton Valukas found no coordinated effort to hide the problem. There was “no conspiracy by the corporation to cover up facts,” Barra said, citing the Valukas report. --SPA 22:06 LOCAL TIME 19:06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w