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  • Saddam aides removed millions of dollars from central bank

    04/19/2003 3:35:57 PM PDT · by knak · 6 replies · 198+ views
    iraq press ^ | 4/19/03
    Baghdad, Iraq Press, April 19, 2003 – Shortly before the fall of Baghdad to U.S. marines on April 9, Saddam Hussein's younger brother, Qusay, looted millions of dollars from the Iraqi Central Bank, a bank employee told Iraq Press. The employee refused to give her name for fear of being implicated in the theft, but said she saw Qusay and a business partner of his, Hasan Habib al-Mawsawi, entering the bank on April 8, just one day before U.S. marines made their way into the heart of the Iraqi capital. "Qusay and Mawsawi were accompanied by a gang of some...