U.S. Probes Fortune in Cash Found in Iraq

AP | 4/22/03 | JEANNINE AVERSA

[Billthedrill]

They can't find the owner, I'm calling "first dibs!"

[Shermy]

``When you discover such a huge amount of U.S. currency, you know you are not dealing with Boy Scouts,''

Yep. But you could be dealing with the Red Cross.

[george wythe]

Piles of U.S. currency, hundreds of millions of dollars so far, are being found in Iraq, even though the country has been under economic sanctions for nearly 13 years.

This can't be right.

The liberal media told me that the economic sanctions were responsible for so many Iraqi children dying each year.

This money was planted by the US military to make anti-war, pro-Saddam activists look bad.

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[Grampa Dave]

The red cross and other so called no profits.

This was interesting and hidden away in the middle of this story: Separately, roughly $1.2 billion in illicit Iraqi assets have been recently uncovered abroad, said Treasury Department officials, who wouldn't disclose details

[Free_at_last_-2001]

the clinton/blix/chiraq et al stash?

[5by5]

Has anyone confirmed that it's real and not counterfeit?

Also, what's the date on the bills?

[Tacis]

Hey, leave that money alone! It belongs to Chirac, members of the French government, members of the German and Russian governments, and to lots and lots of UN employees and diplomats!! That's how Scott Ritter, many journalists, and Dashole's wife have been paid. There should be a ledger over by the wall that lists the pay outs for the past two years.

Cash like this has been distributed via Syrian, Iraqi and Saudi diplomatic pouches for years. It has paid for terrorism, bribes, assasinations, and ANSWER-type domonstrations. Need cash to trash downtown Vancouver? Check with the Syrian consulate.

[Grampa Dave]

However, this find is chickenfeed compared to what Don Johnson was caught muling around in Europe last year.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/862880/posts

Actor Don Johnson is caught up in a money-laundering probe by German authorities, who say they found the "Miami Vice" star in a car with a suitcase stuffed with $8 billion worth of share certificates, bonds and credit notes when he crossed the Swiss border, it was revealed yesterday.


Johnson reportedly told customs officials, "I am going to buy a car," when quizzed about the abundance of loot in the black Mercedes-Benz he was driving from Zurich to Germany with three other men in November.


"With that kind of money, you could buy the factory," a customs man joked, according to a German TV news program broadcast yesterday.


Leonhard Bierl of the German Customs Criminal Investigation Department said "a decision on whether to launch a criminal probe against [Johnson] will come soon."

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So what was Johnson doing?

Was he hauling money from Soddomite to the Follywood Fairies to pay them for their upcoming protests of the war with Iraq?

Was he hauling money from Follywood to pay for the upcoming war?

Was this drug money or diverted Oil for Food money to terrorists?

Was Johnson a mule for al Qaeda?

How many of you take 8 billion to Europe with you?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/862880/posts

[MizSterious]

What do you think? More from the oil for food scandal?

[VadeRetro]

I confess. It "fell out of my wallet" the last time I was in Baghdad. Didn't want to make a stink at the time. They had compromising pictures of me.

[Grampa Dave]

Ramsey Clark and Answer could be in world of hurt now that their cash cow, Soddomite is no longer writing checks to them anymore or just sending bundles of cash.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

8 Billion?

He wanted to start his own Hollywierd!

WOW!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Grampa Dave]

It is an amazing story in how it has been kept off the front pages and not on ABCNNBCBS.

The fact that this story has been avoided like a plague bearer by the left wing mediots says that there is something significant here besides the incredible amount of 8 billion $'s being muled around Europe by Don Johnson.

[Billthedrill]

It "fell out of my wallet" the last time I was in Baghdad...

Bob? Bob, f'Petessake, don't surface now! They think you're dead. You'll ruin it for everyone...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I hsd not heard of it except here on FreeRepublic!

[Grampa Dave]

Yep, the 8 billion $ mystery only seen/covered in the US by Free Republic.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/862880/posts

[realpatriot71]

Any chance any or all of it is counterfeit?

[billhilly]

"How many of you take 8 billion to Europe with you? "

I do, of course.