Odd timing to find out that about 40% of the oil money the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority was suppose to handle is unaccounted for. Much may have been just that - unaccounted:

An earlier auditors' report from last year revealed evidence of wholesale carelessness with large amounts of cash. On one occasion, $1.4bn had to be transported to a bank in three helicopters, as it weighed 14 tons, but no deposit slip was obtained when it was paid in.

Happy is the clerk who was not asked for the receipt. The former head of the coalition, Ambassador Paul Bremer, said that western accounting standards could not be applied in the midst of a war...like deposit receipts. So was there a moment when someone asked one of the three helicopter pilots who had the receipt? I thought Gerry got it, sir.