Previous posted documents .. only now being 'revealed' by the mainstream media
"A former Iraqi defence minister whose 10 months in office coincided with the disappearance of more than $800m (£400m) from the ministry’s coffers is living openly in Amman and London despite a warrant for his arrest. Hazem Shaalan, a small businessman in London until Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, rose in a year to one of the most important jobs in the interim government that ran Iraq from 2004 to 2005. He left Baghdad before the next government discovered that a fortune had been looted from his ministry’s account in what one senior investigator has called "one of the largest thefts in history" (emphasis added).
The missing money was part of $8.8 billion of shrink-wrap-ped American cash that was flown into Iraq after Saddam fell but which is now unaccounted for. It is the subject of a congressional inquiry in Washington amid growing demands by Democrats to identify those responsible...
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Previous posted documents .. only now being 'revealed' by the mainstream media
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
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March 12, 2007
"A former Iraqi defence minister whose 10 months in office coincided with the disappearance of more than $800m (£400m) from the ministry’s coffers is living openly in Amman and London despite a warrant for his arrest.
Hazem Shaalan, a small businessman in London until Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, rose in a year to one of the most important jobs in the interim government that ran Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
He left Baghdad before the next government discovered that a fortune had been looted from his ministry’s account in what one senior investigator has called "one of the largest thefts in history" (emphasis added).
The missing money was part of $8.8 billion of shrink-wrap-ped American cash that was flown into Iraq after Saddam fell but which is now unaccounted for. It is the subject of a congressional inquiry in Washington amid growing demands by Democrats to identify those responsible.
By the way:
Missing cash
$12 billion - cash shipped to Iraq from US in 2003-4
$8.8 billion - total spent by Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and never accounted for
$2.5 billion - Iraqi money spent by CPA from oil-for-food programme without proper accounts
$800m - amount missing from Iraqi defence ministry
$500m-$600m - missing from transport, electricity and interior ministries
$69m - value of fuel missing from oil ministry".
This is a confirming testament (video) from a repentant 'Finance Minister' at the time of the above heist. . 
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