Saturday, August 19, 2006
Is Hezbollah circulating counterfeit American money?
Myrtus and her co-bloggers speculate on the basis of at least circumstantial evidence that Hezbollah may be spreading around counterfeit American money as part of its "reconstruction" project. I'm not convinced they're right, but does sound like something Hezbollah and Iran would do: subvert the American economy and get "credit" for rebuilding Lebanon, all in one simple transaction.
5 Comments:
By 
Mark Tempest, at
Sat Aug 19, 12:22:00 PM:
Just to add a little fuel to the "Axis of Evil" conspiracy fire, North Korea has been alleged to be in the business of counterfeiting US $100 bills... see here.
By 
, at
Sat Aug 19, 12:31:00 PM:
A good guess would be that if this was indeed "funny money" it came from North Korea packed in missle crates and transshipped to Damascus via Iran.
Hard to believe that the Hezzies would give their own people bogus bills, but if the cash is genuine we need a sharp Madison Avenue PR firm to explain to the locals that the money originated in America because if it came from "Mother" Iran it would be in Rials.
By , at
Sat Aug 19, 02:22:00 PM:
Why would a devout Muslim use currency from the great Satan?
By Dawnfire82, at
Sat Aug 19, 04:13:00 PM:
Why did barbarians use Roman currency?
Expediency. It's stable and almost universally accepted in the Third World.
By Purple Avenger, at
Sat Aug 19, 05:28:00 PM:
It had long been rumored that Syria was the source of the "super dollar" counterfeits that were virtually undetectable.
