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2008-05-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Pappy 2008-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 That'll buy a few nuke producing plants....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-30 00:09|| 2008-05-30 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 They will probably find it buried in the ground in Southern Lebanon.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-30 00:44|| 2008-05-30 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Or under the Iranian capitol.

Posted by gorb 2008-05-30 02:13|| 2008-05-30 02:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Uh, uh, okay, I'm guessing this means had NO SECRETARY to do the actual hands-on $$$ calculats vv today's DHAKA CITY article.

And now you know, Virgina, why America has TREAT YOUR SECRETARY TO LUNCH/ETC. Employer-Employee(s) Relations day.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-30 02:16|| 2008-05-30 02:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet I'm off 35 cents the bank tracks me down.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-30 03:23|| 2008-05-30 03:23|| Front Page Top

#6 So, that's how they perhaps bought off-the-shelf nukes from vlad or something???

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-30 07:56|| 2008-05-30 07:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought things like this only happened with the Illinois Toll-Way authority?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-30 08:10|| 2008-05-30 08:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Must use the same audit service as PEMEX.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-30 08:39|| 2008-05-30 08:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, that's one way to finance the Iraq War.

Guerilla accountancy. It could be a beautiful thing.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-05-30 08:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-30 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Check dinner jacket and the Mullahs' swiss accounts.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-30 08:49|| 2008-05-30 08:49|| Front Page Top

#11 The Manhattan Project cost us about $24B in 2008 dollars.

Sounds about right, especially if you factor in $$ sent to HZB & Syria.

Posted by Ike 2008-05-30 09:52|| 2008-05-30 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 funding terrorist groups by any chance nutjob?!!!!!

Posted by Paul 2008-05-30 12:44|| 2008-05-30 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Iran: $35 Billion in Oil Money Missing

Any chance the Iranian purps will get *stoned? [*with rocks?]

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-30 13:32|| 2008-05-30 13:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Funneling it into nuclear weapon's plant development or funding terrorist proxies?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-30 15:52|| 2008-05-30 15:52|| Front Page Top

#15 the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East

Credit where due, that's a tremendous achievement in the corruption league.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-30 18:31|| 2008-05-30 18:31|| Front Page Top

#16 You try supporting multiple wives on an ayatollah's salary.

Posted by ed 2008-05-30 19:19|| 2008-05-30 19:19|| Front Page Top

#17 The Ayatoilets promised $12000 to each family of the Lebanon city of Bint Jubeil, for restoration after the bombardment of same by Israel. Some money was handed out in cash but the transfers were halted when Iranians protested the giveaway, in context of general suffering in their own country. I suspect pure embezzlement by the Ayatollahs accurately explains the leaching.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-30 20:51|| 2008-05-30 20:51|| Front Page Top

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