Sunday, February 13, 2005
Oh, That's Where It Went
Paul Bremer, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, has a lot of explaining to do. In his several years of “service” to the American and Iraqi people he lost 9 Billion dollars. Yes, lost (looted?)… as in “who knows where it went?”
U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says.
(Snip)
Describing the transfer of $2 million to one contractor's gunnysack, Willis (a senior adviser on aviation and communications matters for the CPA) said: "It was time for payment. We told them to come in and bring a bag." He said the money went to Custer Battles of Middletown, R.I., for providing airport security in Baghdad for civilian passengers.
Willis said a coalition driver would go around the Iraqi capital and disburse money from the a pickup truck formerly belonging to the grounded Iraqi Airways airline. The reason is because officials "wanted to meld into the environment," he said.
Willis' allegations follow by two weeks an inspector general's report that concluded the occupying authority transferred nearly $9 billion to Iraqi government ministries without any financial controls.
Just imagine, these are some of the same people (Republicans) who want you to trust them with your Social Security.
U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says.
(Snip)
Describing the transfer of $2 million to one contractor's gunnysack, Willis (a senior adviser on aviation and communications matters for the CPA) said: "It was time for payment. We told them to come in and bring a bag." He said the money went to Custer Battles of Middletown, R.I., for providing airport security in Baghdad for civilian passengers.
Willis said a coalition driver would go around the Iraqi capital and disburse money from the a pickup truck formerly belonging to the grounded Iraqi Airways airline. The reason is because officials "wanted to meld into the environment," he said.
Willis' allegations follow by two weeks an inspector general's report that concluded the occupying authority transferred nearly $9 billion to Iraqi government ministries without any financial controls.
Just imagine, these are some of the same people (Republicans) who want you to trust them with your Social Security.
