Note shows Saddam grabbed $1 billion ($100 bills)

[sabra]

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http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=104160&cat=World

Note shows Saddam grabbed $1 billion:-
BAGHDAD | August 06, 2005 12:11:37 AM IST


Saddam Hussein reportedly told the central bank to hand over $1 billion -- three truckloads of U.S. $100 bills -- just before the invasion of Iraq.

The bank was ordered to give the money to Saddam's youngest son in a handwritten note to Isam Huwaish, the bank's governor, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported. The note was passed to the Iraqi newspaper al-Mashriq by Huwaish's lawyer, who argues it clears his client of corruption charges.

Bank employees described the handover after the country fell in 2003. But the note, dated March 19, 2003, marked top secret and signed in what appears to be Saddam's hand, is the first written proof.

In the note Saddam said he wanted to keep the money out of enemy hands.

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[shraby]

1. Seems like I remember reading that

the US forces captured some trucks full of money and that it was ordered taken from the bank by his sons and was being trucked out of the country. Could this be the same money????

[cosmicdot]

9. me, too

at least, when some of it was found ...

and, recall posting my wish for 'a leader' to call for a full and complete accounting and tracking of each Note's serial number ... too late now, I suppose ... heaven knows where that money is ...

... and, wasn't gold found, too?

where did it go?


Found: Saddam's $12.5m cash crop
By Peter Foster in Tikrit

June 21 2003

On his current pay grade, Captain Brad Boyd would need to work for 209 years and seven months to earn the stack of $US100 bills piled on the table in front of him.

"It sure is a big stash of money," Captain Boyd said as he told how $US12.5 million ($18.6 million) came to be sitting on a sideboard in the presidential palace in Saddam Hussein's home town, Tikrit.

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/20/1055828496564.html?oneclick=true


Saddam's gold discovered in truck
By Pamela Hess
Published 8/4/2003 2:56 PM


HILLAH, Iraq, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A routine Iraqi traffic stop has turned up what may be $90 million in gold bars in this town just over 50 miles south of Baghdad.

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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030804-022903-7609r

[Chi]

16. Refresher.....

"BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 5 — In the hours before American bombs began falling on the Iraqi capital, one of President Saddam Hussein's sons and a close adviser carried off nearly $1 billion in cash from the country's Central Bank, according to American and Iraqi officials here."

http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/husseins.htm

[ET Awful]

2. Now if only they could find that $8 billion stuffed in duffle bags

that disappeared after being flown there from the US.

[Imagevision]

18. Too bad they can't find the 9 BILLION misplaced by Iraqi officials!

[booksenkatz]

3. Hell, Cheney grabs that much every morning before breakfast. NT

[Newsjock]

4. Well, gosh, how could I have ever been so wrong

This surely is sufficient evidence of why we needed to sacrifice more than 1,800 U.S. lives. After all, stealing a billion dollars is a heinous act that should not go unpunished.

Why, if that ever happened in the United Sta--

Oh, wait, never mind.

[htuttle]

5. It would be great if Bush tried to make hay about this

Because it would be a perfect opportunity to bring up the $8 billion in cash WE seem to have lost...(btw, who signed for THAT?)

[Career Prole]

6. Next will come the hand-written top secret note

allegedly from Saddam ordering the "WMD stockpiles" to be sent to Iran and Syria.

[sabra]

8. written in crayon :-)

[Career Prole]

12. It had to be Saddam!

Poppy only gave me the 8-color basic box and that note's written in vermilion!

[cyberpj]

23. Or some sort of confession note - so they won't have to give him a trial.

I'd believe anything of this admin now.

[Nye Bevan]

7. It's true. And I have proof.

I have received several emails from Saddam's relatives seeking my assistance in moving this money abroad. Apparently the money has been deposited in trunk boxes with a security company. Once all of the modalities are concluded I will be receiving 20% of the proceeds. Pretty cool or what?

[sabra]

10. LOL

I know some one who fell for that scam. Ironically he was the treasurer of gov't agency...

[Nye Bevan]

13. Amazing

Talk about greed overshadowing common sense!

[barb162]

11. I'd like to see all of his palaces turned into schools , hospitals and

museums. I wonder what is happening with them now

[Nye Bevan]

14. Isn't one being used by US officials?

For some reason this reminds me of the final scene in Animal Farm...

[barb162]

26. I don't know what's being done with his palaces; maybe they're

locked up. I bet they have all been looted, which is just as well.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. Homes/HQs for all of the high-ranking U. S. military and civilian staff...

...Schools, hospitals, and museums?? We are talking about the same NeoCons, aren't we?

[VegasWolf]

17. The palaces will be turned into Bush/Haliburton summer vacation homes.

[Career Prole]

19. They'll time-share 'em out...

...and bill it as the Adrenaline Tour Super Vacation.

Who needs a view of the surf or the mountains when you can look out any window of your plush accommodations and see actual peasants being actually blown up by actual guerrillas?

Should be quite popular among the Upper One PerCenters.

[VegasWolf]

21. LOL. Watch actual peasants in their dangerous natural habitat! nt

[underpants]

20. That story broke MArch 2003 - 3 truckloads tracked down huh?

but we are supposed to believe that perhaps, not that there is any proof of this, but it could have been that Saddam SNUCK 300,000 tons of WMD around and out of the country without anyone NO ONE catching it.

Uh okay

[geek tragedy]

22. We should invade Enron and Worldcom next. I hear Ken Lay

has WMD's.

At least we know how he's affording all those lawyers.

[daleo]

24. If he really had access to $1 billion

Would he be in prison? I think the Bush's would marry him off to one of their daughters.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

25. LOL!! Dead on the money! :-) Herr Busch may even be willing to...

..."rent out" his daughters for the right amount of money.