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23/01/05
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300 millions de dollars évaporés de la Banque Centrale
irakienne - Mystery in Iraq as $300 million in American
bills was taken out of Iraq's Central Bank... (Ce Repère a
été publié le 22/01 dans le Club Strategic Road)
Mystery
in Iraq as $300 Million is Taken Abroad
The Ledger 22/01/05
"Earlier this month, according to Iraqi officials, $300
million in American bills was taken out of Iraq's Central
Bank, put into boxes and quietly put on a charter jet bound
for Lebanon.
The money was to be used to buy tanks and other weapons from
international arms dealers, the officials say, as part of an
accelerated effort to assemble an armored division for the
fledgling Iraqi Army. But exactly where the money went, and to
whom, and for precisely what, remains a mystery, at least to
Iraqis who say they have been trying to find out.
The $300 million deal appears to have been arranged outside
the American-designed financial controls intended to help Iraq
- which defaulted on its external debt in the 1990's - legally
import goods. By most accounts here, there was no public
bidding for the arms contracts, nor was the deal approved by
the entire 33-member Iraqi cabinet.
On Friday, the mysterious flight became an issue in this
country's American-backed election campaign, when Defense
Minister Hazim al-Shalaan, faced with corruption allegations,
threatened to arrest a political rival.
In an interview on Al Jazeera television, Mr. Shalaan said he
would order the arrest of Ahmed Chalabi, one of the country's
most prominent politicians, who has publicly accused Mr.
Shalaan of sending the cash out of the country. Mr. Shalaan
said he would extradite Mr. Chalabi to face corruption charges
of his own..."
"..."I am sorry to say that the corruption here is
worse now than in the Saddam Hussein era," said Mowaffak
al-Rubaie, the Iraqi national security adviser, who said he
had not been informed of the details of the flight or the arms
deal..."
Lire également, Read also :
Iraqi
Defense Minister Vows to Arrest Chalabi - Voa
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