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  • U.S. was big spender in days before Iraq handover (Nosethril Waxman Alert!!

    06/21/2005 6:29:40 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies · 530+ views
    Yahoo!News via Rooters ^ | June 21, 2005 | Sue Pleming
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States handed out nearly $20 billion of Iraq's funds, with a rush to spend billions in the final days before transferring power to the Iraqis nearly a year ago, a report said on Tuesday. A report by Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record) of California, said in the week before the hand-over on June 28, 2004, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority ordered the urgent delivery of more than $4 billion in Iraqi funds from the U.S. Federal Reserve in New York. One single shipment amounted to $2.4 billion -- the largest movement of...