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To: Mark17
I would suspect all of it is stolen foreign aid money.

Not really.

EG has a tiny (650,000) population living in an area the size of Vermont, and does not receive much in foreign aid.

The country has massive offshore oil resources, which the ruling family and their cronies use as a personal slush fund.

I would guess that the vast bulk of that money comes from concession payments from foreign oil companies.

13 posted on 02/28/2011 11:05:08 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

He could call himself an emir, and no one would question it.


21 posted on 02/28/2011 11:16:05 AM PST by marron
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