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Western style budgeting questioned in postwar Iraq cash payments
Former CPA official Frank Willis described chaotic cash handling in occupied Iraq with $2 million carried in a contractor’s gunny sack and payments issued from a Baghdad pickup. He warned lack of banking, weak controls, and fear of decisions created a Wild West funding environment.
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