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Iraq dumps 'Saddam dinars' for new cash
S.F. Chronicle ^ | January 16, 2004 | Matthew B. Stannard

Posted on 01/16/2004 6:27:58 PM PST by Cultural Jihad

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Central bank employees in Baghdad process the now-defunct currency. Saddam Hussein first appeared on it in the 1980s.

Baghdad -- One of the last visible vestiges of Saddam Hussein vanished from the streets of Iraq on Thursday, as the money that bore his image became officially obsolete.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: currency; iraq; iraqidinar; iraqidinars; iraqieconomy; rebuildingiraq

1 posted on 01/16/2004 6:27:59 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Why burn them? Why not get them all together and drop them over Barbara Streissand's house?
2 posted on 01/16/2004 7:22:05 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Democratshavenobrains
Why ruin a perfectly good house? Just drop them on Barbara.
3 posted on 01/16/2004 7:43:32 PM PST by adam_az (Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
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To: Registered
Registered? Paging a Mr. Registered? Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
4 posted on 01/17/2004 4:00:39 PM PST by King Prout ("Islam" is to "Peace" as a Zen Koan is to a binary logical "if-then" statement)
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