August 26, 2006
MY CONCLUSION ON THE "HEZBOLLAH HUNDREDS"
I've been chatting with
Sticky Notes about whether Hezbollah is passing out fake $100's, and,
as I said earlier, I'm not inclined to believe they're fake.
But if that money IS genuine, that leads me to another thought:
That cash is a few years old, and it's still in like-new condition. Whoever is bankrolling this operation is well-funded enough to let large stacks of US currency sit around untouched for years.
This is no grass-roots relief effort. There's a major player involved. Who that might be, I don't have enough information to speculate on, but it narrows down to a question of "what source of Hezbollah funding could afford to sit on hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in cash without needing to spend it?"
Whoever it is needs to have their assets frozen until they decide that terrorism is not a good investment.
Interestingly enough, Sticky Notes speculates that if they ARE fake (which I admit they might be - I can't tell for sure without actually touching them), she might have a guess as to their source.
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Replace "freeze their assets" with "make them need that money to replace the infrastructure wiped out courtesy of the USAF" and I agree wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Graumagus at August 26, 2006 11:35 PM (C99u6)
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Oh... that's what I
meant... sorry about the typo :-)
Posted by: Harvey at August 27, 2006 09:30 AM (L7a63)
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Harvey,
I just noticed this article, so sorry for not responding sooner. I don't think it's fair to characterize the posts at Snapped Shot as being made "just for the sake of 15 minutes" of fame. I raised a question about this latest "charity" based on Hezbullah's potential criminal history, and followed up as more information came in.
As you'd see, if you looked over the website, I quickly retracted *every single one* of my allegations about the counterfeiting, as you and others who are more knowlegable about currency than I am commented and provided counter-examples. (I don't readily carry $100 bills, so I wasn't in a position to do any comparisons by myself.) The fact that Frum cited my website as definitive proof that the money was counterfeit had nothing to do with me—he did so for reasons which only he can explain. He certainly made no attempt to contact me before publishing his article!
Check out the latest article on Snapped Shot—a journalist *in Lebanon* has written with details about Hezbullah's financial operations which further invalidate my suppositions about counterfeiting—all of which has been posted as breaking news on Snapped Shot.
(your blog is mis-interpreting my URL and rejecting it as spam. Replace the "----" in the following hostname with "shot" to hit the link
http://www.snapped----.com/archives/115-Mike-Hornbrook-from-CBC-Hezbullah-Cash-is-REAL.html
15 minutes, indeed...
Regards,
Brian
Posted by: Brian C. Ledbetter at August 31, 2006 02:05 PM (Pkdud)
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Urgh. Good ol' browser address cache.
I meant to reply to your OTHER article, "IS THERE ANYTHING PEOPLE *WON'T* SAY TO GET THEIR 15 MINUTES?"
http://badexample.mu.nu/archives/194455.php
Sorry for the mixup!
Regards,
Brian
Posted by: Brian C. Ledbetter at August 31, 2006 02:08 PM (Pkdud)
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