Iraq hunting $17 billion missing after US invasion

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraq’s parliament is chasing  about $17 billion of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after  the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and has asked the United Nations for  help to track it down.

The missing money was shipped to Iraq from the United States  to help with reconstruction after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

In a letter to the U.N. office in Baghdad last month,  parliament’s Integrity Committee asked for help to find and  recover the oil money taken from the