Ghost of Ahmad Chalabi Roils Iraqi Politics
He set up the dollar auctions that allow Iraq to purchase foreign imports, but today the program is mired in corruption.
As the 20-year anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein approaches, Iraq’s politics are being roiled by the dollar — billions of them, sent in large pallets every month to Baghdad from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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