United States loaded 363 tons of cash & sent to Iraq

[Merrill]

United States loaded 363 tons of cash

Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 06:12:21 PM PST

The United States loaded 363 tons of cash on palettes and airlifted it to Iraq during the reign of provisional authority L. Paul Bremer.

363 tons of cash. This is getting into territory where it is easier to measure the weight of the money than the amount involved. I mean 363 tons of cash just boggles the mind. One of these transports was the largest cash transfer in the history of the federal reserve. And the sad fact is that this is all money that was sent into a black hole. Fully $8.8 billion can not be accounted for after being given to Iraqi government agencies.

[Dinger]

1. Interesting. Is There A Link? (nt)

[Kagemusha]

2. I know it came from hearings Waxman held in the House.

No link from me either, sorry, but I recall the context if that helps at all.

[StClone]

4. Feb. 7th CNN story

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/06/iraq.cash.reut/index.html

[StClone]

3. Reports of Tons of Reconstruction money

Disappearing came out as early as Jan. 2005 -- part of the same?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4216853.stm

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5. Shame

It's a shame that nobody seems to care about all that missing cash either. Seems the most coverage it's had on television came from The Daily Show