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Published 8/8/2008 at WSJ.com: Politics And Policy
The U.S. military is stuck paying Sunni members of Iraq's security forces after the Shiite-dominated government balked at the idea. The task of handing out salaries requires a solider, nicknamed the "moneyman," to carry a suitcase full of shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills.
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