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JanDutchy Donating Member (593 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 03:51 PM
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Gaddafi sitting on 143 tonnes of gold in Libya: report
Source: SMH

Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi is reportedly sitting on a 143.8-tonne $6.4-billion pot of gold - enough to pay mercenaries to fight for him for years.

The gold bullion - held by the Libyan central bank and controlled by Colonel Gaddafi - is among the 25 largest reserves in the world, the Financial Times reported, citing the International Monetary Fund.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/gaddafi-sitting-on-143-tonnes-of-gold-in-libya-report-20110322-1c4cj.html
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 03:52 PM
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1. recommend
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 03:57 PM
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2. So he's kind of like a leprecaun? nt
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:44 PM
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11. !
:spray: sorry; couldn't help myself on that one. We need the DUzy's.
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:48 PM
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13. Note the striking similarity

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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:40 PM
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18. That's pretty funny! n/t
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:56 PM
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26. It's in the mouth, let's see if Gaddafi still has his lucky charms
if you know what I mean..
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:41 PM
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25. LOL!!
Good one -- very funny!!
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 03:58 PM
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3. I thought you meant he was actually sitting on a giant pile of gold. n/t
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:01 PM
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4. That's a lot of jobs and infrastructure in such a poor country.
The people will be very happy.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:02 PM
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5. Bomb the bank.
Destroy the records. Poof!
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:06 PM
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6. Hey. THAT'S where my Goddam gold went.
I was looking all over the house for it just the other day.

Send it back, ya coprophage.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:53 PM
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20. Extra points for using "coprophage" in a sentence.
That's one you don't hear too often.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:20 PM
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21. It's easy to use that word when
you're writing about Republicans or tinhorn dictators--but I repeat myself.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:09 PM
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7. At $394 that's $2 x 10 ^ 9
2 gigabucks. Nice.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:09 PM
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8. So we are sitting on over $14 trillion in debt and we still
are too f---g stupid to stay out of another war.
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:42 PM
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19. If they didn't hoard our money we could get out of debt. Actually, if
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 05:43 PM by glinda
he got it from us and we invaded and took it back, that would be about par wouldn't it?
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BobbyBoring Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:00 PM
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27. HEY!
We can take his gold just like we took all that oil from Saddam to pay for that war. These wars are specially designed to pay for themselves don't you know!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 09:02 AM
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:14 PM
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9. Gold melts.
And molten gold doesn't feel very good on one's ass.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:20 PM
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10. No wonder he isn't leaving! That is too much gold to smuggle out of
the country so he has to stay with it.
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Old Troop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:46 PM
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12. We could become BBF if he's willing to share.
:evilgrin:
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Nossida Donating Member (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 04:52 PM
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14. I see
The Globalist keep pushing the anti Qaddafi rhetoric to
justify the 'humanitarian' bombing of a nation that has
done nothing to threaten them. Just like Iraq all over again.
Your Blessed Wall Street Bankers would consider Qaddafi's
personal wealth to be pocket change. On the Taxpayers Backs.

For Christ sake Globalist Western Press, get some new material.
you only convince the Brain Dead will your worn out drivel.
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AllTooEasy Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:41 PM
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24. So you're pro Qaddafi? Or you think he's just okay???
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4saken Donating Member (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:48 PM
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29. Do you really think personal threat is the only relevant factor?
Why is it that your comment seems to disregard the threat and damage caused by Gaddafi to the Libyan people?
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:09 PM
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15. Not for long. nt
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:09 PM
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16. And that's why Obama declared war-like actions
makes sense now.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 05:10 PM
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17. Cue the scam emails... /nt
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Alamuti Lotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:29 PM
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22. I've already started to receive those!
Started getting those last month when regime officials first started defecting. It was basically like the "Nigerian bank President" emails, but there was white-out on the email with "Libyan" pencilled in. It was great!
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:37 PM
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23. Those mercenaries
Why not airdrop leaflets with that gold news tidbit for the mercenaries to read along with graphic novel versions of Xenophon's "Anabasis"? They are mercenaries and we waste billions on cruise missiles?
I am sure even Gaddafi's loving loyalists might show a spark of interest.

(Xenophon was one of the earliest historians who wrote memoirs on Greek mercenaries bugging out of Persia on an epic trek through hostile territory after their employer was killed early on in a massive civil war.)
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:37 PM
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28. Gaddafi should give Glenn Beck a call
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 11:08 PM
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30. It seems like a lot
But it wouldn't pay for a day's worth of Wall Street bailouts or a week's worth of the costs of wars in three countries. He's a piker next to that.
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 09:04 AM
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32. So announce the location and quantity
in a dozen local languages and promise a pardon to any mercenary who leaves the country within X amount of time, they can take whatever gold they can carry.

But if they are there past X amount of time we start bombing for real.

There, I just wiped out 90% of Gaddafis army and it only cost us a run to kinkos.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 02:13 PM
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33. I could have sworn he was sitting on a veritable powder keg of refried beans.
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