Billions Over Baghdad: How Did $9B in Cash Airlifted From the Fed to Iraq

One month after the invasion of Iraq, the United States began airlifting
planeloads of cash to Baghdad. Between April 2003 and June 2004, a total of
$12 billion dollars of US currency was shipped to Iraq where it was to be
dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority for reconstruction. To
date, at least $9 billion dollars cannot be accounted for. In a startling
new expose in Vanity Fair, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists
Donald Barlett and James Steele follow the money trail from the Federal
Reserve to Iraq.

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One month after the invasion of Iraq, the United States began airlifting
planeloads of cash to Baghdad. Between April 2003 and June 2004, a total of
$12 billion dollars of US currency was shipped to Iraq where it was to be
dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority for reconstruction. To
date, at least $9 billion dollars cannot be accounted for. In a startling
new expose in Vanity Fair, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists
Donald Barlett and James Steele follow the money trail from the Federal
Reserve to Iraq.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/12/1410243