[Big_Monkey]

"Actually, I’d kind of like to hear about Jessica Simpson’s nose hairs!!!

That'll have to wait.

Nothing on CNBC's website except poorly disguised Obama cheerleading.

Digging deeper, I think we may have been scammed. The story is credited to Kyodo News, which is a legitimate and old news group. But, there's nothing on Kyodo's site, just on this Japann Today site. Could be bogus.

[April Lexington]

I'm thinking so. Way too much money. I need sleep. Especially if the global financial system is going to crash tomorrow! Let's see what happens!

[SpaceBar]

Nothing on AP breaking either. I would ask all freepers to keep a keen eye on the various newswires and see where this goes.

[Ken H]

You're probably right. $134B is a s___load of loot!

[April Lexington]

I would think Italy, Switzerland and the USA would want to spike this story fast. Too many armchair gumshoes (like us) out there who would freak if the story got out. Its either true or false. And, it could be $134 million which is mob sized money. But... the mob usually doesn’t like bonds with serial numbers on them (or so I assume).

[piasa]

Japan Today is the same website the flaming left Truthout.org used to inject a bogus Capitol Hill Blue story into the international press some years ago that led to the whole "Niger yellowcake" and "Valerie Plame CIA leak" media orgies; in the process it gave the article more credibility once it came back home to roost and was picked up in the US media, by that time the source "T J Wilkinson" was missing from the articles.

This is interesting in many ways, one in that we just had the wacko supremacist guy cook off in the Holocaust museum...

By the way, one of the top al Qaeda terrorist financiers is a very old neonazi convert based in the Milan-Lugano area, IIRC.

If it's bogus I wonder if Japan Today is getting it from the same sources again?

This was then [note this was just after Joe Wilson's Niger uranium op ed, and around the time the FBI was tipped off about Ashar Karni's S African proliferation ring] :

JULY 9, 2003 : (CAPITOL HILL BLUE ARTICLE IS POSTED ON FR-- see T J WILKINSON )

JULY 9, 2003 3:08 : (TROLL POSTS CHB ARTICLE FROM JAPAN TODAY, INCLUDED LINK TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SITE STORMFRONT-- see T J WILKINSON ) Can I add something to the mix? At 3:08 today one of our returning trolls posted the article as it appeared on Japan Today. The user also was kind enough to include a link to Stormfront. The user has had many names here, and gets banned immediately because his ilk are not welcome here. For what it is worth. AM - 59 posted on 07/09/2003 8:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator

Recall this thread on FR?
BREAKING: Conned big time "CIA Witness" to White House Lying about Intel story found to be FRAUD

and this one:

"Games People Play," 7/10/03 , William McKinley, Posted on 07/10/2003 3:39 PM PDT by William McKinley, Edited on 07/10/2003 5:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Truthout's "executive director" was a guy by the name of Marc Ash. TruthOut.org, which is run by managing editor William (Red) Rivers Pitt, co-author of an anti-American screed along with Scott "Have It Your Way" Ritter [the UNSCOM weapons inspector with the taste for for Burger King.

John Kerry buddy Peter Daou is also associated with Truthout. So is the Jow Wilson support group of ex-CIA employees called VIPS.

Truthout is funded by (or affiliated with) a group called SEE (Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs)

Truthout was registered the day before the 9/11 attacks.