The Oil Spoils

May 29, 2003 | This article appeared in the June 16, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Under cover of darkness in the early morning hours of March 18, Qusay
Saddam Hussein carted off nearly $1 billion in hard currency from Iraq's
central bank.

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David Cortright

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