Posted on 12/05/2003 1:23:31 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
December 5, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein has tens of billions of dollars stashed in foreign bank accounts and is likely using the war chest to fund attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, a former aide said yesterday. Jewad Hashem, who was Iraq's planning minister in the 1960s and '70s, said in a new book being excerpted in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the ousted Iraqi dictator skimmed 5 percent of Iraq's oil revenues for two decades and deposited the money abroad.
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