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2003-04-16 Iraq

Baghdad quiet, dollar to drive new money system

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-16 01:06 pm|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They should cash in the old dinars for new ones, hold for 21 days, then resell as toilet paper.

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-16 14:04:06|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-16 14:04:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Hell, half the country's running around with US greenbacks rather than photo-copied dinars. They even paid the jihadis in C-notes, I hear.

Posted by mojo 2003-04-16 14:48:15|| 2003-04-16 14:48:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Kind of sums up the whole thing in the middle east: paying crazies to blow themselves up along with a few Americans, and paying them in American dollars. I notice also that people world wide would rather have dollars tucked away for an emergency than francs or even deutch marks.

Posted by trapper 2003-04-17 00:30:51|| 2003-04-17 00:30:51|| Front Page Top

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