Missing $6.6 bil US Iraq reconstruction money sent cash via planes stolen? U.S. Defense still cannot say what happened to money sent after the start of invasion and colonial war 2003.
Biggest international cash airlift of all time. - http://www.latimes.com/news...
Jun 14, 2011
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After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born.......
Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills........ They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.
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U.S. officials "used virtually no financial controls to account for these enormous cash withdrawals once they arrived in Iraq, and there is evidence of substantial waste, fraud and abuse in the actual spending and disbursement of the Iraqi funds."
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Congress already shelled out $61 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for similar reconstruction and development projects in Iraq
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