SkyBum
08-05-2003, 08:05 AM
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030804-022903-7609r
HILLAH, Iraq, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A routine Iraqi traffic stop has turned up what may be $90 million in gold bars in this town just over 50 miles south of Baghdad.
While the financial haul is major, U.S. Marines helping to get this town back on its feet say something more valuable has come out of the episode: the notion that Iraqis can begin to trust their government.
I love how by the end of the story we are not even sure if it is indeed gold.
The Marines are still not sure what the metal is -- other bars thought to be gold have turned out to be brass or other metals. But pictures of the bars show gleaming yellow bricks
The gold will be tested by metallurgists sometime soon and somehow returned to the Iraqi treasury.
No matter what the tests reveal, Holahan wants to tell the Iraqis it is gold anyway.
Notice how much this last quote stands in contrast to the last line of the first quote.
Fucking sensationalistic reporters.
HILLAH, Iraq, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A routine Iraqi traffic stop has turned up what may be $90 million in gold bars in this town just over 50 miles south of Baghdad.
While the financial haul is major, U.S. Marines helping to get this town back on its feet say something more valuable has come out of the episode: the notion that Iraqis can begin to trust their government.
I love how by the end of the story we are not even sure if it is indeed gold.
The Marines are still not sure what the metal is -- other bars thought to be gold have turned out to be brass or other metals. But pictures of the bars show gleaming yellow bricks
The gold will be tested by metallurgists sometime soon and somehow returned to the Iraqi treasury.
No matter what the tests reveal, Holahan wants to tell the Iraqis it is gold anyway.
Notice how much this last quote stands in contrast to the last line of the first quote.
Fucking sensationalistic reporters.