>> stuart bowen was the only u.s. official who really tried to investigate what happened to all of the money the united states sent to iraq. there are different estimates. over $11 billion of the roughly $20 billion in iraq he money that in the united states sent to iraq was unaccounted for. what bowen's investigators found was nearly $2 billion in cash in $100 bills was stolen after it was flown from the air force base to baghdad apparently by powerful iraqis and was being hidden in a bunker in lebanon. where the people who had stolen it after it had been airlifted by the u.s. air force to baghdad. they were hiding give for safekeeping for future use. >> do we know who those people are? >> not sure but they were working with the powerful lebanese to be able to hold it in lebanon the way they were. >> how is it possible to move $2 billion and $100 bills from iraq to lebanon and not have someone not even an american official know about? >> that is the question -- did they know about it? it would take some infrastructur

bowen, no one in the u.s. government or iraq government seems to be interested in getting to the bottom of. stuart, i detailed how he went to the f ei and cia and other agencies and no one was interested in helping him find the money. >> do have any idea why? >> not really. part of the problem was it was iraqi government money. it was the development fund for iraq, which was created after the u.s. invasion to hold large revenuesf iraqi oil that they were given from oil sales after the invasion. it builds up very quickly. since is was not u.s. taxpayer's money, the cpa was able to have it airlifted over by the which administration with very few strings attached. bushich administration -- administration with very few strings attached. it is not u.s. taxpayer money so why should we care? i have a scene in the book where bowen means -- meets primus or malady he makes sure he knows about the -- prime minister mala di and he makes it known he knows about the money. --aki >> you talk about money being flown over there, was a $20 billion? how was it physically flown there and what time? theurrency taken o