Saddam’s Magical Mystery Vouchers
The ISG confirms that Saddam creamed off billions of dollars from the Oil for Food program. Interestingly, Megawati’s name has resurfaced in the controversy.
October 19, 2004
THE 1,000-page report reveals another side to the face of the last regime in Iraq. It turns out that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction—as slandered by the United States and its allies. However Saddam, who was at the top of the Iraqi power structure for 26 years, did manage to successfully collect up to US$11 billion (approximately Rp99 trillion).
In a report prepared by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), Saddam collected th
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