Ali Allawi, Iraq's finance minister, estimated that insurgents reap 40 percent to 50 percent of all oil-smuggling profits in the country. There's a lot of money flowing through that country in all kinds of black markets and it's beginning to look like it was US money meant for Iraqi reconstruction. Don't give those SOBs one more penny until they can account for the monies already received. This is 2006...shit gets lost mostly on purpose. And remember, every policy blunder the US and the 'Coalition of the Willing' commit that drives up oil and gas prices in the US, is driving them up globally too. So why are these governments buying into it?? Coalition of the 'Shilling, Billing & Killing'?