The Bremer Administration Embezzled $8.8 billion

[DuctapeFatwa]

An Iraqi government report showed that the Bremer administration embezzled $8.8 billion in the form of salaries for fictitious people who do not exist, according to .www.karbalanews.net reporting from Akhbar Al-Khaleej Bahraini newspaper.

http://www.akhbar-alkhaleej.com/source/saturday/1.pdf, October 16, 2004.

This is the biggest Iraq scandal so far the Bush administration admits. The Iraqi government report will be issued by the Directorate of Iraqi Financial Supervision. The report is based on on the another report prepared by the US Financial Inspector of the Coalition Authority. The report demonstrated that Paul Bremer and a number of his aides cashed $8.8 billion, representing the gap between fictitious names and real names of the government employees.

The report shows that the Bush administration has acknowledged the occurrence of embezzlement in the Bremer administration.

http://aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/October/17%20n/The%20Bremer%20Administration%20Embezzled%20$8.8%20billion.htm

props to River Blog http://theriverblog.blogspot.com for this, it would be in news but it is over a day old.

If you can't get the link to work, maybe a nerd will fix it or you can google or download the pdf or see if it clicks better from River Blog.

[RC]

1. Hmmmmm... There sure is a lot of dirt coming out

about the bu$h administration all of a sudden. Could it be we might see some of them in orange jump suits in the near future?

[TexasChick]

2. Isn't there still 8 billion dollars unaccounted for going to Iraq with..

our tax dollars? Isn't that something that has been a problem? $8 billion unaccounted for? Can't remember!



Jennifer

[goclark]

5. Is this the UN Food scam mess?

I can't believe that our perfect government would do a thing like this!

Links please, that work.

[goclark]

3. So Paul Bremer

is a bad guy? Is that what the article is telling us?

NO! Say it is not so!

Where is the late breaking news? You are kidding us ,right?

[loudsue]

4. Holy shit!! That can't be true, can it???

That's $25,000 in taxes for every man, woman, and child in the United States that was embezzled!!

That's $25,000 that would have helped ME out, a helluva lot!!

Leave it to bush!

:kick::kick:

[tkmorris]

6. I'm sorry. I can't help it.

It's actually about $25 per person. 8,000,000,000 divided by about 300,000,000.

[loudsue]

9. Ooops! Sorry!

:hi: Please pass the late-night Chardonnay! :beer:

:kick::kick:

[OutsourceBush]

7. Has to be true it was on Al-Jazeerah

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. The original source is the home of US ally Bahrain

You might google to find out more information about Bahrain's relationship with the US.

[DuctapeFatwa]

10. kick

[htuttle]

11. They make Al Capone look like a shoplifter!

Man, if he were alive today, he'd be really pissed he didn't go into government instead of having wasted his time with running booze, hookers and gambling enterprises!

There's no way Capone ever made $8 billion from that penny-ante stuff!