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Al-Qaeda Jihadis Loot Over $400 Million From Mosul Central Bank, Seize Saddam's Hometown
As reported yesterday, in yet another humiliating blow to US foreign policy and the State Department, Al Qaeda-linked ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) militants took over the key northern town of Mosul, where an unknown number of US-made Black Hawk helicopters were parked and have been captured by Al Qaeda (potentially the same forces that have been trained by the US across the border in Syria).
Adding insult to injury the Al Qaeda militants also appear to have looted some $429 million from local banks. From IBtimes:
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) has become the richest terror group ever after looting 500 billion Iraqi dinars - the equivalent of $429m (£256m) - from Mosul's central bank, according to the regional governor.
Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi confirmed Kurdish televison reports that Isis militants had stolen millions from numerous banks across Mosul. A large quantity of gold bullion is also believed to have been stolen.
Following the siege of the country's second city, the bounty collected by the group has left it richer than al-Qaeda itself and as wealthy as small nations such as Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Falkland Islands.
The financial assets that Isis now possess are likely to worsen the Iraqi governement's struggle to defeat the insurgency, which is aimed at creating an Islamic state across the Syrian-Iraqi border.
In other words, now that it is armed with US-made weapons, this particular al-Qaeda group also happens to be the world's richest terror force!
And so with all disposable cash it needs for a long time and armed to the teeth, what is Al Qaeda to do? Why continue expanding of course. Moments ago, via Reuters, we got confirmation that the "insurgents" have just captured yet another symbolic Iraqi town, Tikrit: the birthplace of none other than Saddam.
Sunni insurgents overran parts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, security sources said.
Tikrit, which is located 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, is the hometown of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
And on the map:
Will they stop here? Of course not. Expect the ISIS force to continue south until finally it overruns Baghdad itself and until all of Iraq, courtesy of a crippled army, officially belongs to Al Qaeda. America's job is done here.
One can't wait until Al Qaeda is also in charge of all the other countries recently liberated by the US and/or CIA.
USAID in action, supporting ISIS
US-supplied humvees captured by Islamic insurgents in the battle for Mosul
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"Why does the camel smile? Because he knows the hundredth name of God." ... and now you do too. Paradise awaits.
What a fucking waste. Thousands of people slaughtered, trillions of dollars wasted, our standing in the world diminished, all to preserve the petro-dollar which is going to vaporize regardless of what we do. Fucking pathetic. Hopefully the assholes in power are held accountable in this lifetime..
Unfortunately the will be enjoying their nice ocean or sea front villas in Pacific or Mediterranean Islands that are sparsely populated and safe from the rampaging mobs.
Thousands only if you count the US soldiers. Truly horrific. I'm proud yet saddened to say I was one of the few that was opposed to this misadventure from the beginning.
>> I was one of the few that was opposed to this misadventure from the beginning.
I hear ya' brother. It was a lonely battle at the time. It would be interesting to see all the yahoo's here who were cheering this misadventure on back then. I'd bet 95% of the posters here supported going into Iraq, kicking ass and picking up flowers and candy on the way out, after two weeks.
one of closest beer drinking buds was nuts to the wall gung ho from day 1 about doin the 'Raq. He was relentless in his heckiing because I stood up to him and said this was a farce from Day 1, all you had to do was look at Bush on TV trying to sell the WOAR to know it was all bullshit. He hasn't spoken to me since......out of embarrassment !! Fucking tool bag.
We should have stayed out of Kuwait.
There is that.
Painful as it was, I upticked you for that one.
We were in it from the Iran-Iraq War when we reflagged Kuwaiti Tankers with our Ensigns to defend their and others' Shipping Routes. (Operation Earnest Will)
Kinda hard to look the other way when we defended them recently - even more so when the Iraqis mowed them down w/o much armed provocations.
It would be funny to see what would have happened if Saddam actually rushed Saudi Arabia after overrunning Kuwait. Talk about the diffuculty of doing a 6 Month Build-up elsewhere (don't think UAE or Yemen would oblige) while Oil Fields and Rigs were taken over, pumping up the Px. We didn't have Carriers in the Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. We probably would have had to fight from the Sea and from Qatar, Oman, and/or Egypt.
I'm sorry, what side was Al Quaeda on? Do they still have problems with the Royal House of Saud? Can they buy enough Tanks, Missiles, and Planes w/Cheap Iraqi Oil traded in non-USD to do pull this off?
"Hopefully the assholes in power are held accountable in this lifetime".
Imprisoned for the remainder of their lives as war criminals is the way to begin a new society. They can not become martyr's
"Thousands of people slaughtered, trillions of dollars wasted, our standing in the world diminished"
What difference does it make </hillary2016>
Shows you how tough the Iraqi army is....they desert if attacked...pretty weak if I say so myself..and their intel is just as bad....no one seems to have known this was going on??????
......French trained
@prains
Stupid. One more remaining example (even in ZH) of the avalanche of neo-cons propaganda and silly jokes after the firm and sensible refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003 ...
A lot of terrorists have central banks. Can theirs print?
One terrorist can always help out another, I am sure we can lend them some printing time on our machines.
Cost of Manpads on the open market going to skyrocket - Win / Win.
/s
Maybe ISIS are Keynesians, and they are going to use the Blackhawk to helicopter drop newly printed Iraqi Dinars from the sky?
I can't help but remember the classic "Mission Accomplished" banner.
The only mission is of course to give meaning to the MIC, and for thirteen years, they have managed, in a list of countries now so long that I can't even remember them all, to provide enough war to keep the machine chugging along, providing loot for the owners and jobs for the minions of the companies that benefit. The only thing that truly shocks me at this point is that there remain ANY people who believe that there is any purpose to these wars other than to feed the war machine. The terrorism excuse is an absurdity, and yet I guess it goes to show that there are some truly thick people born into the world. I'm no longer angry at this point, but every day I grow sadder that our species continues in this pattern of self-destruction. We are indeed limited by our biology, I guess. :(
Well when your last manufacturing base is weapons then this is the only way to create market demand. I mean all the infrastructure machinery to build a country and consumer goods went to China
War profiteers win again.
Prescott Bush.
over $400 million eh? Well someone forgot to tell these idiots that the Iraqi dinar is one of the most worthless currencies on the planet. If in fact they did steal that much, at best it will get them a few bags of popcorn and a few bullets and not much more. Are those drones I see on the horizon?
400 BILLION Iraqi Dinar, worth $400 Million USD.
This is Barack Hussein Obama's foreign policy on full display. There can be no glossing over it. Just how long will it be to put the most extreme Islamists back in control of Iraq? Why was there no US forces left behind to keep this from happening? A little over a year maybe before Al Qaeda overran the third largest city which just so happens to control the largest oil region in Iraq.
In Egypt BHO supported the Muslim Brotherhood. In Syria BHO supports the most extreme Islamists which most believe are Al Qaeda.
This is truly insane that the American people put up with this president's policy.
What the fuck, son . Your daddy made the same mistake with your mommy, he didn't pull out in time.
Well lookie here we got ourselves a real live Obama sychophant.
Who, chief? He's a left wing queer who does so much cock smoking for obama that he cant speak straight. He is one LOST motherfucker around here.
Look at that map. Looks like ISIS has opened up a nice corridor from SA in the South to Turkey in the north. Qatar/Saudi Arabia have a route for the European natural gas pipeline via their merry band of dancing Sunnis.
Yes, and Putin is just going to sit there and watch this happen!
The causality is clear. Cheney created a big mess indeed.
TIME FOR A JOKE:
Robber walks into a bank and robs it. He then shoots the teller.
He then turns to a customer on his right and asks if he saw what happened.
"Yes" replies the man, "you robbed the bank and shot the teller."
The bank robber then shoots the customer dead.
He then turns to the other side where an old pensioner couple are standing.
He asks the husband, "did you see what I did?"
The old man replies nervously, "I saw nothing, but my wife saw everything."
Struth, just opened a deposit A/C in Mosul last month. Am I covered via the insurance? What ya'll mean the bank manager skipped town?
Raiding bank deposits was the wrong move. IMF and NWO hate competition
One man's "looting" is another man's "transfer of custodial arrangements".
TIME FOR ANOTHER JOKE:
Young bank robbers rob a London bank and escape with a big plastic garbage bag full of money.
They get back to their hideout and the younger one proceeds to empty the contents out onto the floor. As he stares at it, he asks his older accomplice whether they should count it.
The accomplice replies, "no"'.
The younger accomplice asks "why".
The older accomplice replies, "don't bother, they will tell us on the news how much it is."
Funny, but untrue. I have yet to see a news report detailing how much money any bank robber scored. It's always, "...got away with an undisclosed amount of cash..." You know, to keep from encouraging others.
Good way to hide a bankruptsy....the terrorists stole it !
So basically they robbed a bank with 400 million dinar not dollars. The exchange rate on that is about 338 thousand dollars. So what John Corzine stole 1.6 billion and owns most New Jersey. Who cares.
No, 500 BILLION dinars worth 400 million dollars.
All of you stupid fuckers who voted for the Chimp from Texico , raise your right hand and say "not me boss"
>> All of you stupid fuckers who voted for the Chimp
Don't be picking on 90% of the folks on here.
This commentary coming from two Obamabots who are too stupid to realize that the chimp and zero are the same horse of a different color.
>> Obamabots.
True to form, attack anyone not supporting the red team. Cheer up pal, your team had a huge, a huge, win in a primary. America is saved by the boys in red.
I know it's difficult for you to understand so I will explain it slowly. Red team, blue team, they are both on the same team. They only offer the illusion of choice. Keep playing their game though. Maybe someday you'll catch on. For some reason I am skeptical that you will.
I bet ths ass-wipe thinks the WWE is real wrestling too...
>> Red team, blue team, they are both on the same team. They only offer the illusion of choice.
Last I checked, Dr, you've been celebrating this "red team" victory with all the rest. Maybe you should speak even slower so that even you will understand. I'll keep it real simple, you stupid mother fucker, I don't support either team. But I know, for closet red dick sucking jack asses such as yourself, that makes me an enemy.
Ahh did I get under your skin with the truth? I know you must be butt hurt because your blue team savior just expanded on the Bush red team policies. I'm sorry that you're so disillusioned and bitter, hopefully you will take away a lesson from this learning experience.
Edit. If you read my posts the you would know that my only excitement was the fact that the establishment got a sharp stick in the eye. However after reading the bulk of your posts I know that intellectual honesty is a bit difficult for you.
Chimp from Texaco.
Chimp from British Petroleum (for the uninformed, Google BP's political contributions ... oh! They gave more money to Obama than anyone else in the history of the world?!? WTF?!? I mean, like, Republicans are the tools of Big Oil and Big Business. Everyone knows that.)
However, having said that, the difference between the parties is not to be measured by the difference between Bush and Obama, but by the difference between their respective rank and file.
Seriously ... can anyone even imagine the Democrats doing to Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or any of those other odious heaps of offal what the Republicans did to Eric Cantor? Mike Castle? Charlie Crist? Lisa Mukowski?
Etc. The only genuine change taking place in this country is comiing from the Republican rank and file.
Good point, but history also teaches us that Ideology==Bad.
Well if that's so easy to do. We should a get a group together and get over there and do the same thing. No raping or killing please.
Al Obama should be smiling big this morning, his pals are #WINNING! Well I hope they got their 'loot' in gold and not worthless bundles of paper promises. Anyway, wow that War on Al CIAda sure is workin good huh?
have they put up a large "mission Accomplished" sign yet?
Mission O-ccomplished. FIFY
Taking after the petty bandit "profit" from the 600s, aren't they?
Hardly worthy of news, given the billions stolen by Wall Street and the trillions wasted by Congress.
Wall St and Clowngress, the REAL terrorists of the world!
"Stand down" still works. Vehicles, aircraft, USD to buy what they didn't windfall.
A question though, is "Stand down" a subset of "Selective enforcement", vice versa or it's own class?
Enquiring minds, et al.
Obama's domestic and foreign policy are in crisis. That said, President Obama golf game continues to improve.
Got any evidence Ogolfer is any less of a worm burning 3 putting hack than before?
You know ... when Obama looks over the pink sheets at his morning briefing, you think he gives a shit about anyone saying anything bad about his foriegn policy? Or domestic policy? Action or inaction on immigration? Soaring food or energy prices? His sexual proclivities or antecedents?
No.
But, Man ... I'd hesitate to draw attention to myself by saying something about untoward about his golfing prowess. There's probably some offices being painted right now at Foggy Bottom, Langley, etc., for the new Golfing Desk.
I wouldn't say that, his golf game hasn't improved that much if at all.
you think the stupid cunts would have moved it???
Could someone please point out which clown shoes was in charge of securing american interests in mosul? This is an outrage. What an obvious set-up to re-deploy in iraq using taxpayer money we simply dont have. I smell nudelmans private parts in the midst of this stink.
You missed the point; "All Sham, All the time" is heading for Syria. It's all a part of the war on poor Assad; and his proxy, Putin.
Anyone else smell a rat?
I'm guessing they will have very little trouble finding a seller of a legit nuke with that kind of money.
The real irony would come in when Al-Queda manages to appropriate functioning radar and anti-aircraft adapted to new stealth technology, but I don't know if they're that ambitious. They get their RPGs from where, again?
5 Known High Level players released, and a few days later they lost all the "progress" they made over the past 5 years.
. . . haha what a mess, Obama has to be the biggest failure of a leader ever.
You don't understand whose leader he is. he's doing fine according to his real home boys; All Sham and the Muslim Country Wreckers"---soon to be making loud sounds where you can hear 'em real good.
4 more years bitchez
Damn! Al Qaeda's central bank now has better Equity/Assets ratio than the Federal Reserve!
Well, that's not that hard to do; I mean, so does my little sister.
The Obama regime is the biggest clusterfuck in history. The ramifications are now beginnig to unfold. Wait until these guys take Bagdad. Bush's damage was contained somewhat to Iraq. By opening up chaos in Libya and Syria, Obama has really let the cat out of the bag. We'd be watching Egypt slipping into chaos were in not for the resilience of the Egyptian people, their traditions and their military.
The Taliban will be in charge of Afghanistan within hours of our depature -- then Taliban and ISIS hook up. The game room at the Pentagon must be buzzing with potential outcomes.
not bad for a band of fanatics! right!?
If you mean the CIA fanatics and the "World War at any Cost" fanatics behind the Dumbo; yeah, not bad.
Bush killed Al Qaida terrorists by the thousands, while Obama arms them with Stinger Missiles.....
Yep LiberTARDian voters here are correct..."both parties are the same"....
What kind of moron repeats this tidbit of Socialist Semite Democrat Media Propaganda?
I'm sure a lot of you cowards will down arrow my post, but you certainly wont refute it!
Gullible cowards are like that.....
the Zero Hedge kind of moron; as you know. if there are any future political historians the official Zero Hedge consensus meme; "don't vote, they're all the same"; will go down as a.) a significant contribution to the destruction of the USA, and b.) beyond retarded. Have a Nice Day.
Vote, but for someone not of the established parties wherever the choice is available.
There is no such thing as throwing away your vote.
There is such a thing as using it to send a message, both to the candidates and the electorate.
Maybe next time your guy wins. Maybe next time they run a candidate closer to what you want to see.
Maybe the two party system goes away.
It's all up to the voters.
It's that time of year again: time for another Iraq war.
So bombing Iraq for the last few decades didn't liberate them.
Sarc ON/ Time to bomb them again? Sarc/OFF
You don't need the Sarc ON/ and Sarc/OFF! http://deadlinelive.info/2014/06/04/secret-service-requests-software-to-...
"deadlinelive"---is that a dead live-line? or a live dead-line? Or just more bullshit?
Your job is to continue the Policy we have had in place since the Damascus conference in 1918:
Eliminate Arab Nationalism.
Assad is an Arab Nationalist.
AQ in Iraq can now supply AQ in Syria and our hands are clean.
DO you understand, Mr President?
Uh, err, yeah.
In return, we care not what kind of domestic policy you pursue in your own country. Marxism? Fascism? So be it. As long as it does not affect the Financial power. As long as it does not affect Control. Are we clear?
Err, uhhh, yessir.
We have plans within plans. You and I will never meet again. Can I count on you?
Err, Uhh, Yessir.
Good boy.
I'd give you another plus 50; if I could; 49 just for the screen name. Many happy memories of my LC '55 ammo arcing gracefully through the air down to the 1000yd. butts.
For some reason I had a hard time countering the arc of the 55gr and 62gr balls until I fired a tracer a few times. The visualization immediately helped me counter for the arc and hit dead center along a range to 300 yds. When I was younger I could pop them about 500 yds. For some reason that particular cartridge bedeviled me!
I love me some M4/M16. But, for a worst-case scenario, I am going with 7.62X39. I have a Russian rifle in that caliber that you can throw in a mud pile and still shoot.
Looks like they also stole the barbaric relic from the central bank!
Nobody gets 400m in fiat without the express approval of the Great Eye.
So, this is all right on script.
Syria fizzled, Ukraine is slipping out of their grasp, so now this.
Just seems kinda like something fishy is being lined up...
Ted Cruz (goldman sachs ties) saying Israel could attack in the coming months.
Sounds like the banksters are looking to attempt another clusterfuck to escalate so they can blame/distract on the collapse.
Maybe this'll be an excuse for them. They'll say that they have to go after these highly funded terrorists. So the'll have to attack Iran and start up again in Iraq to protect Israel.
The answers to almost all of the questions posted here were answered in a book long ago.
It is called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
I suggest it as a great read. The man who wrote it was probably killed for it.
Whatever; nobody lives forever.
"The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
A good start
From The Guardian “Our shipments have included delivery of 300 Hellfire missiles, millions of rounds of small arms fire, thousands of rounds of tank ammunition, helicopter-fired rockets, machine guns, grenades, sniper rifles, M16 and M4 rifles to the Iraqi security agencies,” said Earnest.
I wonder who has all these now?
It is reported that these guys are communicating with cell phones. Don't we have some kind of agency that's supposed to be on top of that?
They talk jibberish.
I'm sure they'll pull up the calls in 10 years. The problem with recording everything, is that you have to store and classify and search through EVERYTHING.
oh, sorry, we were possed to being recording that but the porn was extra good this week.
Obama's policy of arming Muslim radicals and assisting them in over throwing secular governmnet's in the ME makes perfect sense if he is a Muslim.
Ahmed: "Make it rain Ali"
Ali: "What is rain?"
Yeah but they have gold bullion now scouts. Now they have a central bank . This is big news.
Those "unknown unknowns" certainly can slap you in the ass when you're not looking....We certainly didn't train the Iraqi army well enough, they DIDN"T even fold their uniforms neatly when they ditched them - what slobs!....
It looks like the French trained them
Stupid. One more remaining example (even in ZH) of the avalanche of neo-cons propaganda and silly jokes after the firm and sensible refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003 ...
Now they can hire some pilots for those helicopters and soon to have F16's.
That is if America is stiil going to deliver them to Iraq.
Stupid Americans.
look how the mossad play
see the funtimes had by mi6
be amazed in awe at the cia destruction.
see the rothschild rapists flee syria after a hezbollah kickin.
for they now have free reign to play hear.
perfect weapon dump for a syrian resupply.
listen to brookings and chatham house say iraq has failed time for partition.
behold the kaos of the puppet apes the dregs of societies
financed by the jewish house of saud with logictics from langley,dimona and london.
this is not about a war won or lost just constant kaos
weakness forever also very handy for the organ and child harvesting industries.
i hear the pope is ill today clearly not had his morning child blood shake
400 million, about a days worth of qe from the fed.....
WHo actually believes a bank had that much cash on hand to steal anyways?
Sounds like the Iraqi bank needed a scapegoat for some missing capital...AQ did it!
Better to say they stole it than to say I cant find all that copper you gave me last year to store for you...
Hmmm, bet Beijing is seeing your post and is assembling a force now to hit the copper terminals on the coast...
it's a cover for the evaporated rehypothecated missing gold that belonged to the Germans.
400 mil is chump change.. won't even buy you an F-35... or lessons on how to land.
What did these guys grab at those military bases we are NOT being told about?
So with the fresh 400 million they got does that mean we we can stop sending them cash?
hell no, as their employers we are required to cough up matching funds for their 401.
Note the "we have no reason AT THIS POINT to worry" (my caps).
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-06-10/news/50478382_1_...
spare us lord
help the innocent bleeting sheeps.
and so it is daily mail written
that we must fear the new beards
today it is the spooky sas sorry isis of iraq
yesterday we trembled at al ciada of everywhere
sunday gone just past it was the paki taliban.
like virus in a langley petri dish new formations form.
multiply with kosher food
without they wither and die.
3 cheers for the neocon ziocons feeding israels rise
America no care - it's bouncy-ball season here in u-es-eh.
Sorry u die Seeria, Ukrane and Irack peeples.
Busy watch men bounce ball on floor and make score in basket!
Bouncy ball season for world in Brazil now! No one care, must watch footballers chase little ball around and maybe GOOOOAAAAL!
Grimey shit is allowed to go down when the circus is in town.
All I can say on this thread is what did you expect to happen, I'm surprised this wasn't Baghdad and soon enough it will be, and Kabul. I'm sorry to all Americans who served in either, your service wasn't entirely in vain, but certainly it didn't gain anything permanent when it could have and should have.
What part of "Barack Hussein Obama" don't you understand?
Just saw on my newscreen that the Northern city of Tikrit in Iraq has now fallen the militants.
As soon as the oilfields get captured, the U.S. will have no other alternative but to go back in to restore order.
I remember the Jordon ruler (can't remember his name now) in 2001 warming of the outbreak of civil wars in the Middle East if the U.S. invaded Iraq.
Right on, it just took a while.
Since we're supporting them in Syria, this is an awesome cash score for the See why A. The mother of all "bar tips".
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Certainly will be the shot in the arm the defense industry needs here; phew, was worried we actually were going to be fiscally responsible and would cut the budget, now bullish on GD, Raytheon, etc..
Ok, to be honest, I'm actually quite surprised...
I had no idea that Banks actually kept stacks of hundreds of millions of dinars/dollars/currency in CASH lying around anywhere in the world.
I could sort of get it if this was NYC or London and several million People were all banging the atms for $20s all weekend long; but,...
IF $400M was lying around in a third world regional 'Central Bank' then the amounts stacked in the major regional Banks serving NYC or London or... must be of orders of magnitude larger?
Don't you remember all the pallets full of dollars sent to Iraq? They likely don't have the infrastructure there to use digital money, so they have to rely on paper bills.
Wouldn't those bills be in, um, circulation and not heaped in one or two caches?
Why do I suddently think that the looting the Bank of Kabul by Karzai and his Brother and their Cronies is somehow related or signifies an ongoing modus operandi ?
Looking more and more like these Islamic State guys are actually Turkish military. It all makes sense now.
link?
With all that money,,,new berkas for all their babes.and the camels get new lipstick now....
Arming ISIS in Iraq as we are trying to leave is classic Judo.
I assume there was $429 million - and since it says dollars - hard paper currency FRNs in Mosul Banks. If that's the case...what morons would have that much hard currency in a bank? Oh, maybe the CIA.
But assuming that's not the case...then it was all bits and bytes...so how would they actually secure any e-funds?
Now if there was gold...
Gee. No-one could have ever seen that coming <sarc>
Like Iran is going to allow their puppets in Baghdad to be overthrown without a fight? This should get interesting.
Maybe they could hire Jon Corzine to be their investment manager.
#BuckFarack
mosul and tikrit, are both predominantly sunni. claiming they are being 'overrun' by sunni militants is a bit of a stretch, no? more like a revolt.
Those cities were Saddam strongholds, the cities military, police and and civilian populations were obliterated by the US military, we removed the legit Iraq govt, murdered their police and military and left them open to Al Qaida Muslim criminal mob rule.
Mission Accomplished?
The shuuda used BitCoin!
"500 billion Iraqi dinars - the equivalent of $429m"
The value of any fiat money is highly dependent on the credibility of the government that issued it. After such a humiliating defeat for the Baghdad government, the street value of 500 billion dinars just got a lot closer to zero.
Dinar=Dollar
Soon they will be at the gates of Vienna.
Queda joining the ranks of the top banksters with their central bank looting prowess. Sounds like Queda should get a a gold star on Wall Street, hollywierd style.
Won't be long for the swinging doors. obama, nuland, hillary, they'll all have corner offices in al qaeda when they exit government.
Didn't we just agree to sell them F-16s? While I assume they are all outfitted with self-destruct capability we can trigger, it is nonetheless another stunning success for this inept administration. Was happy Kerry left MA but knew this would be the result...first time he has had to try to work in years.
We're not that smart
BTW we had this same conversation about the Mujahudeen in the late 80s when we gave them stinger missiles, no self destruct then too.
.....less than flat learning curve.
He's the bomber in the grey sweat pants [Seinfeld reference].
My bank gives me grief if I try to cash a $4000 check and the banks over there have $400MM just sitting around?
Osama wins