Nam Vet
MR. SENOR (Daniel Senor, Senior Advisor to CPA): And I will just add to that, what is definitely sophisticated is the success and implementation of the currency exchange. Twenty-seven 747 flights full of currency, 2,300 tons of currency, to 240 exchange points across the country; almost 1,000 Iraqi personnel trained for the mission, over 10,000 if you include banking personnel. Each of these exchange sites are being visited multiple times by convoys, of which there have been 600 convoys shooting across the country. This all in just a month and a half. This currency exchange was launched on October 15th. It's set for three months. And 75 percent of the currency is in circulation that we are exchanging.
Looks like January 15, 2004.
Good info in the briefing, this is the 5th or 6th such convoy of money into Samarrah, and they have taken fire every time. Only thing different about this one was the number of ambushers (nearly 100) and the fact that we reported the numbers of enemy dead. Briefing is linked here.