That's the weight of
the CASH we sent to Iraq, mostly in $100 bills. This money belonged to the Iraqis,
we wasted it and now the Iraqis want some answers.
Iraq asks for UN help in tracing $17 billion oil money it says was stolen by US
by Don Mackay, Daily Mirror 20/06/2011
Iraq has asked the United Nations to help find $17 billion of oil money it believes was stolen by America.
Its parliament says the cash was shipped over from the US to aid reconstruction after Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003.
But it went missing the following year during the post-invasion chaos.
In a letter to the UN office in Baghdad, the parliament’s integrity committee said: “All indications are that US institutions committed financial corruption by stealing the money of the Iraqi people, which was allocated to develop Iraq.”
The committee called the disappearance a “financial crime” but said UN resolutions prevented Iraq making a claim against the US.
This war crime did get some U.S. coverage:
$17b in Iraq rebuilding money missing
Boston Globe - 4 hours ago
AP / June 23, 2011 BAGHDAD — Iraqis are demanding to know what happened to $17 billion in Iraqi money that was part of a US-administered fund for rebuilding the country after years of war and sanctions that cannot be accounted for properly. ...
Iraq hunts for $17B in lost development money
CBS News - 4 hours ago
The United States was responsible for administering the Development Fund for Iraq, which was set up after the 2003 invasion with money from Iraqi oil sales, frozen Saddam Hussein-era assets and money left over from the UN oil-for-food program. ...
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