USMedia?: Saddam took $1 B out of Baghdad a week AFTER we controlled city?

[papau]

Saddam took $1 B out of Baghdad a week AFTER we controlled city?

And our media is investigating - not.

Folks may remember that after the Saddam sons put a billion into a truck just before the fall of Baghdad, we recovered those monies a few weeks after the fall of Baghdad.

Folks may not remember that the Iraq Bank had more than 10 billion moved out of its accounts after we took Baghdad, with the French bank teller that spoke on this saying that he did not know if the CIA had moved the money - but he had seen the movement - and then the story was killed on all the wires. Most folks guessed that the CIA was getting a bit of extra funding for Bush's adventures, now and in the future.

Now we have Saddam confessing to a billion being being taken a week AFTER we controlled Baghdad and all banking in Iraq. Does this look like a CIA cover-up of their new funding to anyone?

We never did get an "accounting" of the first billion that we "recovered" via a shed in someones back yard - nor did we get an explanation of our ability to know when a few thousand was missing in that recovery when our guys took down a small personal fee for moving the money from the shed "back" to Army control.

Do you think our media will ever investigate this - our "we are not controlled by Bush - we just act that way" media?



http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/31/sprj.irq.main/index.html

Saddam withdrew $2 billion from Iraqi banks last spring, including a sizable withdrawal a week after the fall of Baghdad, according to a member of the Iraq Governing Council.

Iyad Allawi -- in an interview with CNN Tuesday -- elaborated on reports published Monday in two Arabic newspapers on what he says interrogators are learning from Saddam since his capture earlier this month.

Allawi said the council possesses documents signed by the former Iraqi dictator two weeks before the war began, authorizing the bank withdrawal. It was unclear how the money was taken from the bank after coalition troops took Baghdad.

Allawi said Saddam admitted he invested stolen Iraqi money -- which the Iraq Governing Council estimates at $40 billion -- in Switzerland, Japan and Germany, among other nations, under fictitious company names.

Saddam's confession also included the names of people involved in terrorist attacks against coalition forces, Allawi said. He said hundreds of Iraqis have surrendered in the days since Saddam's capture because they knew he had given interrogators their names.



AS BRAINSHRUB posted on DU, "Maybe Saddam managed to hold on to his ATM card? "


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I do love our media - our not controlled by the GOP media.

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[cosmicdot]

1. this is true: "We never did get an 'accounting' of the first billion' nor

the gold ... or was it copper ... says whom? who knows?

Congress should have been on that money real money ... cash ... trail demanding serial numbers, tracing without given up until the accounting was done ...

well, I'd say it's too late now

what's all that US cash doing in Iraq in the first place, and how did it get there?

I could use $15K ... pocket change to the volumes of money shifting on the upper echelon and wealth plateaus ...

Bet the banks in Switzerland and the Caymans work 24/7