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U.S. seizes gold bars in Iraq
Reuters
| 5/27/03
| Daren Butler
Posted on 05/26/2003 11:22:10 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:22:10 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
I wonder how many gold-hauling trucks (or donkeys) got through.
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:36:16 AM PDT
by
AngrySpud
To: kattracks
I'm wondering why they didn't let the truck & driver continue to it's destination ? with troops not far behind of course.
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2 wrongs don't make a right.....but 3 rights make a left)
To: AngrySpud
who is giving the orders to load and move all this gold? there has to be some kind of significant command and control left amongst the Ba'ath people or former Iraqi military to make this happen. How are they communicating to each other to make this happen? And where is this stuff being stored, it has to be in some out of the way places, you would think that US forces have search obvious places like banks and government buildings. These stories are not building my confidence that we have a firm grip on the country.
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:40:32 AM PDT
by
oceanview
To: kattracks
999 bars?
Was the thousandth bar taken as a commision?
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:46:00 AM PDT
by
Fractal Trader
(Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
To: kattracks
Good find!!
Too bad the U.N. isn't involved, we sure could use their help to expedite finding shipments like these.
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: EGPWS
Forgot the /sarcasm!:)
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:47:09 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: Fractal Trader
Maybe a GI wanted to send a nice souvenir back home ("My brother was in Iraq, and all I got was this s#i**y gold bar!") ;-)
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:49:06 AM PDT
by
Michael81Dus
("Wer will, was er muss, ist frei" (Schiller) ("Who wants, what he has to do, is free!"))
To: wardaddy; Travis McGee; harpseal
LMAO....999 bars times 20 pounds in an old mercedes........unimog vs gull wing I'll suppose ?:o)
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:51:05 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: kattracks
Fox News just announced that about $200 mullion in currency has been found in a flooded bank vault.
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posted on
05/26/2003 11:55:31 AM PDT
by
blam
To: kattracks
Now that wouldn't happen in America...where you gonna find a driver who'll settle for the 300.00 bucks as you deliver 500 million in gold.
To: kattracks
Man, the Three Kings must have gotten lost.
To: blam
Fox News just announced that about $200 mullion in currency has been found in a flooded bank vault.If this keeps up, we're going to bring this war in on a profit.
To: John Jorsett; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Shermy; BOBTHENAILER; Miss Marple; Dog; Dog Gone
France, Germany. and Russia must be really upset. If it hadn't been for our regime change, all of this gold money probably would have found its way to France, Germany and Russia.
Now it will stay in Iraq.
Notice how the left wing press has not said anything about the real looting of Iraq by the Regime they supported.
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posted on
05/26/2003 1:47:32 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Time to visit this website and join up: http://www.georgewbush.com/)
To: kattracks
These belong to Kuwait.......stolen in 1991.
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posted on
05/26/2003 1:49:43 PM PDT
by
bert
(Don't Panic !)
To: blam
Fox News just announced that about $200 mullion in currency has been found in a flooded bank vault.The new Iraqi US Admin, Paul Bremer, announced that at a presser in Baghdad this AM -- the conference was cut off midway by FNC by the way. It seems the Lacy Peterson case is more important than Iraq nowadays.
To: EGPWS
actually the un would probably find the money in no time flat. WMD'S owned by dicators no big hurry but Gold I bet they pull out all the stops.
To: Squantos
$300 dollars to smuggle 150 million in gold....kinda like being a plumbers helper.
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
actually the un would probably find the money in no time flat. Why would they waste their time going after the "chicken feed" when they already have "pheasant under glass" served up by the "Goldmine Diner and Supper club"...Owned and operated by the USofA?
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posted on
05/26/2003 2:07:09 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: browardchad
I would greatly appreciate it if Fox News would concentrate their Lacy Peterson coverage into two one-hour time blocks...say one in the afternoon and Greta's show in the evening.
Then I could safely switch to another channel or get housework done anad rest assured I am not missing anything.
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