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

[papau]

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.

[brainshrub]

1. Maybe Saddam managed to hold on to his ATM card? (nt)

[chromotone]

3. Maybe he went through the drive-through window...

on his way out of town?

Mr. Hussein, do you have an account with us? Oh, fine! Now may I see a second ID? Thank you. Ah, Mr. Hussein, I see that you've listed your new address as "Hidey Hole." Is that the name of one of those new housing developments in Tikrit?

[brainshrub]

4. LMAO!!!

Hhahahahaha!

[cthrumatrix]

2. $1B plus ...and you live/captured in a hole...? Now that's a story.

A huge opportunity to really investigate...don't expect this at all from our media.

The die has been cast...a short no-talk trial and so long.

Rummy has too much to lose if SH were to share about their REAL WMD relationship in the 80's.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. They say he was found with hot dogs.

Those must have been some of them fancy, gourmet kinda hot dogs.

[Tinoire]

7. Yeah and pork-free don't forget

The boys are really not very smart are they? You would think that after looting and plundering such a wealthy country, they could afford better script writers!

Of course, I guess after you've sold the world a lie about non-existent WMDs, why should a minor detail like hot-dogs stop you :shrug:

[tom_paine]

6. Yes, it stinks like a dead fish.

The only question is, was the $10,000,000,000 Black Ops Money or just a plain old Watergate-style Slush Fund?