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ShadesOfMe
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17 Feb 2009, 3:52 pm

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Missing_I ... _0216.html

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The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), the Army's criminal Investigation Command and the Justice Department are investigating US soldiers and officials in the alleged misuse of a portion of the $125 billion initially sent to Iraq for reconstruction shortly after the fall of Saddam.



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17 Feb 2009, 3:59 pm

It still needs to have more than 20 billion in squandered funds to beat Madoff, 8 billion to beat Stanford or 7 billion to beat Lillon.


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17 Feb 2009, 6:15 pm

Ummm... I can think of several bigger frauds.
Mind-boggling in scale and implications.
Nothing they do surprises me any more.


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