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U.S. tries to retrieve Saddam's millions
Washington Times ^
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004
| By Dafna Linzer
Posted on 02/10/2004 1:05:41 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BERN, Switzerland -- The United States thinks it has found at least $300 million that Saddam Hussein hid in banks, yet it doesn't have enough evidence to get countries such as Syria and Switzerland to hand over the money, U.S. and European officials said.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqiassets; iraqwar; iraqwarchest; saddam; saddamhussein; saddaminc; syria; waroniraq
To: JohnHuang2
weak U.S. intelligence and the slow-moving investigation
countries that acted quickly on relatively weak evidence involving al Qaeda funds have been unwilling to do the same on Iraq, partly because of growing doubts about the quality of U.S. intelligence.
I am really going to hate having to read this sort of garbage everywhere we turn.
My bets are on David Kay being the one that was wrong.
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02/10/2004 1:41:45 AM PST
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texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: texasflower
My bets are on David Kay being the one that was wrong.Dittos. Plus, he's a quitter. If he wasn't willing to finish the work, he should never have accepted.
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