Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
Just one(!) highlight from the interview linked below: the PRTs were throwing around so much cash that Iraqis coined a term which is glossed herein as ‘a large pile of Benjamins.’
One of my students who deployed to Iraq related how some of those piles of cash from PRTs or CERPs would fuel the insurgency. It became quite embarrassing after raids, apparently, to trace back the serial numbers of US currency in insurgent hands, only to discover it had originated with the US government....

The explanation was easy to find: in order to placate militants who might be angry if one took cash from the US military, enterprising local Iraqis would automatically donate a share to the insurgency.