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I didn't have a chance to do anything but skim this. Seems as though it might be related to our own flying dutchman...
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"Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Following a trail that leads from a safe in one of Saddam's palaces to a house near San Diego, to a P.O. box in the Bahamas, the authors discover just how little anyone cared about how the money was handled."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710 "Hidden in plain sight, 10 miles west of Manhattan, amid a suburban community of middle-class homes and small businesses, stands a fortress-like building shielded by big trees and lush plantings behind an iron fence. The steel-gray structure, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is all but invisible to the thousands of commuters who whiz by every day on Route 17. Even if they noticed it, they would scarcely guess that it is the largest repository of American currency in the world..." |
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And there's an interview with the reporters:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_qanda200710 VF.com: What led you to this story? James B. Steele: It just kind of ballooned in the news in the first of the year. There was one hearing, and there were a couple of images of the pallets of cash, but that was it. It just fell off the screen. So we all talked about this and thought, Jeez, wonder if this would be worth looking at. We were very intrigued. Donald L. Barlett: It was really how fast the story disappeared. Some stories pick up a life of their own—this one didn't, for whatever reason. Has this been discussed here before? Has anyone dug up the first sets of stories, the ones that must have inspired our Bill Gibson? |
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