From: Adam Flinton 

jeff wrote:
> Yep - it was their money to begin with. It just took an unauthorized
> pause in Saddam's palaces.

Unauthorized by who?

Saddam was the acknowledged President of Iraq.

Alawi is if anything less legitimate.

& it took an unauthorized move into US military hands.


>
> Now it's being used for it's proper purposes.
>

Really.



Adam


> Adam Flinton wrote:
>
>> Where the other guy is the Iraqi people.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> jeff wrote:
>>
>>> .... with the other guys cash (Go read it all):
>>>
>>> http://2slick.blogspot.com/2004/11/whats-next-for-fallujah.html
>>>
>>>
>>> "Here's how it worked. About one week after we (the
101st) arrived in
>>> Mosul (approx. May 8th), every major subordinate command in the 101st
>>> (including mine, of course) received an order to report to Finance
>>> Headquarters, draw $10,000 US cash (seized assets recovered from the
>>> old regime) and go out and spend it. There were rules and guidelines-
>>> no single purchase over the amount of $2,000. Any expenditure must
>>> benefit the Iraqi people only, and may not result in any kind benefit
>>> to Coalition Forces whatsoever. No spending on entertainment for the
>>> Iraqis. Other than that, it was pretty much go out there and spend. I
>>> was selected to be my brigade's project manager because of my
>>> experience handling budgets and my history of successfuly dealing
>>> with Iraqis.
>>>
>>> I first went to a Civil Affairs guy who lived in the tent next to
>>> mine, and asked him if he had any good tips. He told me that the
>>> University had been severely looted, and that they could use some
>>> help with ADP products (monitors, disk drives, etc.). We went to the
>>> University, worked out the arrangements, made some connections, and
>>> delivered the products the next day. The purchase was simple- we went
>>> to a computer store across the street from the university, worked out
>>> a deal, and had them deliver the goods at the agreed time and place,
>>> at which time we paid them. We repeated this often. After our first
>>> purchase for the university we still had $8,000, so we stopped at a
>>> primary school and asked them how we could be of assistance. They
>>> were very happy to see us, and we communicated through our
>>> interpreter. We worked out a deal to get them school supplies, new
>>> school desks, chalkboards, etc.
>>>
>>> When our $10,000 ran out, we drew more and repeated the process.
>>> Every other major subordinate command in the 101st did the same thing
>>> we did. This continued for about 3 weeks.
>>>
>>> Once it became obvious that this operation was working, Division
>>> Headquarters decided to step things up. We were soon authorized to
>>> draw $250,000 at a time (usually about one draw every two weeks- and
>>> the maximum withdrawal amount continued to grow), and spend up to
>>> $10,000 on a single purchase (more if we obtained the CG's approval).
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> When it was all over, I had spent over $2.7 million, mostly on the
>>> University. I'm told that other Division's throughout Iraq followed
>>> our model, since we had so much success with it. As far as I know,
>>> CERP is still ongoing."

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5