Pentagon officials have determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. The Bush administration sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq between March 2003 and May 2004-- a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.
But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion of the money. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."
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