Nidal

“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”

  • Iraq : Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-missing-billions-20110613,0,4414060.story

    This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

    For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be “the largest theft of funds in national history.”

    [...]

    The White House decided to use the money in the so-called Development Fund for Iraq, which was created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to hold money amassed during the years when Hussein’s regime was under crippling economic and trade sanctions.

    La Maison blanche, sous Georges Bush, sort des montagnes d’argent liquide, l’expédie en Irak dans des conditions totalement farfelues, sans aucun contrôle, cet argent « disparaît », et maintenant on parle de « vol » ?

    Voyez ça :

    But U.S. officials often didn’t have time or staff to keep strict financial controls. Millions of dollars were stuffed in gunnysacks and hauled on pickups to Iraqi agencies or contractors, officials have testified.

    House Government Reform Committee investigators charged in 2005 that U.S. officials “used virtually no financial controls to account for these enormous cash withdrawals once they arrived in Iraq, and there is evidence of substantial waste, fraud and abuse in the actual spending and disbursement of the Iraqi funds.”

    Quand on fait ça, on ne craint pas des « vols » : on est en train d’organiser du détournement de fond à très grande échelle.

    La question qui se pose : les néoconservateurs ont financé qui, avec cet argent ? (Pas les Contras du Nicaragua, je suppose...)