US issues threat to Iraq's $50bn foreign reserves in military deal

[The Amazing Messenger]

Economic blackmail.

The US is holding hostage some $50bn (£25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to information leaked to The Independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...foreign-reserves-in-military-deal-841407.html

"If they want us to leave, all they have to do is say so."