# Iraqi "Most Wanted" Cards

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391 "2003-05-06T14:17:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391/1 "2003-05-06T14:17:39Z")

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Has anyone purchased a set of Iraqi Most Wanted Cards?

I’ve recently noticed a lot of sites offering them, but they all seem sketchy.

More importantly has anyone ordered them in Canada?

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**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391/2 "2003-05-23T18:08:09Z")

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YAAAAAAAY

I ordered from [Great USA Flags](http://www.greatusaflags.com/) and they claim to be the only ones autorized to sell the real thing.

It took about three weeks to get them up to Canada.

I ordered the two decks and a poster deal, thoroughly impressed.

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**Author:** ![herwono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9f8e36/32.png) [@herwono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herwono)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391/3 "2003-05-24T15:18:35Z")

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I bought a pack last week at the book store. 10RMB. So that’s roughly US$1.20

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391/4 "2003-05-24T15:19:41Z")

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I might buy them if they’d stop spamming me…

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraqi-most-wanted-cards/173391/5 "2003-05-24T15:28:24Z")

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That depends on what you call the “real thing”. The US Defense Intelligence Agency originally made only 200 decks of the “real thing”, then 1700 decks on a different paper. Hundreds of thousands of knockoff decks have been sold by marketers who downloaded the PDF files from the DIA website and printed copies themselves.

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