Missing Iraq money may be as much as $18 billion

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In 2004, the Bush administration flew twenty billion dollars of shrink-wrapped cash into Iraq on pallets.

Now the bulk of that money has disappeared.

The funds flown into the war zone were made up of surplus from the UN's oil-for-food program, as well as money from sales of Iraqi oil and seized Iraqi assets.

Recent estimates had the amount of missing money at about $6.6 billion, but according to Al Jazeera, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi says the figure is closer to three times that amount.

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