An American citizen cannot be held in trial more than once for any crime charged against them. That might be a good thing when considering the Bush White House never received any prosecution for it's activities before and after the invasion into Iraq.
These monies reported by The Guardian is what we know of.
7 February 2007
By David Pallister
Special flights (click here) brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.
Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"...
It could be said the intelligence on Iraq was not only faulty, but, outright lies by Ayad Allawi. There was considerable incentive to do so. The USA intelligence can't identify lies and misdirection of power? Or was 911 more of a lesson than the USA intelligence community would ever admit?
These monies reported by The Guardian is what we know of.
7 February 2007
By David Pallister
Special flights (click here) brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.
Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"...
It could be said the intelligence on Iraq was not only faulty, but, outright lies by Ayad Allawi. There was considerable incentive to do so. The USA intelligence can't identify lies and misdirection of power? Or was 911 more of a lesson than the USA intelligence community would ever admit?
