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Re: Billion-dollar pillage of ravaged Iraq
Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Tuesday, September 20 2005, 8:54:28 (CEST)
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>Billion-dollar pillage of ravaged Iraq
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>September 20, 2005
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>MORE than a billion dollars has been plundered from the coffers of Iraq's Defence Ministry, seriously affecting the Government's ability to combat the insurgency, The Independent newspaper reports.
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>"It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history," it quoted Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Allawi as saying.
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>Most of the money was "siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared" to finance the purchase of arms in Poland and Pakistan. But rather than buying state-of-the-art weaponry, Iraq had procured "museum-piece weapons," The Independent charged.


.............Sounds like the Contra affair, all over, where Oliver North became the FALL GUY for Reagan and Bush Sr., then they rewarded him to have a show on TV. Now these are the same guys doing the same things in Iraq, because they know if they installed puppets to run the parliament of Iraq, no one would know how the money disappeared, and who got it out of the country. Well all you have to do is get the Iraqi army and every official bribed, and they'll get you anything you want. Arms-smuggling, money laundering, treasure looting, anything you want!

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>The paper listed a series of problems with the arms purchased, including armoured cars that "turned out to be so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour".
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>Other armoured cars leaked so much oil that they had to be abandoned.


......It's called PLUNDERING the Iraqi money! What they accused Saddam of. The truth is, they were jealous of Saddam plundering the Iraqi money all by himself. They wanted to have a piece of it, so off to war they went to depose the son of a gun! Now they can plunder all they want!
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>A shipment of the latest MP5 American submachine-guns turned out to be Egyptian copies worth a fraction of the price, according to the report. "Many Iraqi soldiers and police have died because they were not properly equipped," The Independent said.

...........Well if the U.S. government can pay Lockheed Martin $60.00 for a screw, and that little screw will be defective and malfunction causing a helicopter on a mission to save American hostages from Iranian kidnappers, to plunge to the death of all, what's this comparatively?

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The rip-offs were so huge, said the paper, that Baghdad officials estimated that the Iraqis involved "were only frontmen, and 'rogue elements' within the US military and intelligence services may have played a decisive role behind the scenes".

.........Na!!! REALLY?
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>Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has been told of the problem "but the extent of the losses has become apparent only gradually".


.........Iraq has a PRIME MINISTER? You mean the Shiaa preacher guy?
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>"The sum missing was first reported as $US300 million and then $US500 million ($A394 million, then $A656 million), but in fact it is at least twice as large," the paper said. "It is nearly 100 per cent of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone AWOL," Mr Allawi was quoted as saying.

..........Where has Allawi been? Why do you think the U.S is holding a gun to the heads of the Iraqi cabinet members to come up with a SIGNED constitution, NOW! "Hurry up damn it! We need to loot and run before anyone is the wiser, or at least before Saddam's trial!"
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>Mr Allawi says a further $US500 million-600 million has disappeared from the electricity, transport, interior and other ministries.
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>"This helps to explain why the supply of electricity in Baghdad has been so poor since the fall of Saddam Hussein 29 months ago despite claims by the US and subsequent Iraqi governments that they are doing everything to improve power generation."

.............No water, no electricity, no gas in Iraq! Had ANYONE heard that EVER before about Iraq?
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>Iraq's parliament finally approved a draft constitution on Sunday, just four weeks before the text is put to a referendum, as violence persisted after one of the bloodiest weeks since the US invasion of 2003.
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>The agreement came at the end of a week of carnage in which 250 people were killed in the capital and elsewhere.

...........And they will kill as many as it takes to get as much looting done as possible. When there's nothing left to steal in Iraq, the U.S. troops will leave a RAPED country weak and ravaged, not to mention poor, and thus the biggest terrorist in the world will WIN the war on terror, literally!
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>The Kurdish and Shiite-led Government, backed by occupying US forces, is facing a Sunni Arab insurgency aimed at bringing it down, and the US military has said it expects violence to rise before the October 15 constitutional referendum.


The U.S. government expects more violence? They ARE the violence that's being committed against the Iraqi people!


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>AFP, REUTERS



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