That USAID article was written in Nov of 2005. The Iraqi dinar was introduced in Oct of 2003… in the 3 month exchange period they exchanged about 4.5 trillion… if my memory serves… sure I could find a link. I find it pretty hard to believe that in two years the number didn’t increase at all. Their was also the report that Iraq deposited 5 billion dollars into a federal reserve bank in New York, the report also claimed that most of that money resulted from selling dinars. That would be about 5 trillion, added to the original handout of 4.5 trillion. That kinda dispels the USAID claim.