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2003-12-21 Syria-Lebanon

Syria seizes 6 moneymen bearing $23 million in al-Qaeda cash from Sammy

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Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-21 12:24:29 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...it is a positive sign that Syria made the arrests."

Maybe. Or maybe just a smoke screen.

Posted by PBMcL 2003-12-21 12:39:00 AM|| 2003-12-21 12:39:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this not hardly the first time Syria plays 'Finders-Keepers' with money that clearly belongs to the Iraqis?

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-21 12:48:37 AM|| 2003-12-21 12:48:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 As I recall, there is around 1 bil. USD missing. So far, we have accounted for a little over a million or two....those semi-trucks full of cash from the Central Bank that were reported headed West probably made it into Syria, so their "discovery" of a little over 23 million amounts to chump change only.

Posted by Rivrdog 2003-12-21 1:31:15 AM|| 2003-12-21 1:31:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 After we played "close the valve" on the Iraq-Syria oil pipeline, Baby Assad is going to need the semi loads of cash in the amount of 1 bill that arrived earlier to keep afloat for a while, unless Saudi and Iran keep him afloat. Syria is trying to buy goodwill with the little Al Q offering.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-21 1:45:24 AM|| 2003-12-21 1:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Officials in the Syrian Embassy in Washington said Friday that they were unable to locate the ambassador or his deputy to respond to requests for comment.

Hmm. I wonder why.

Forget Syrian cooperation: Any other doubts that AlQ and Sammy were working together?

Posted by Ptah 2003-12-21 6:05:53 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-12-21 6:05:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Rivrdog #3: Supposedly Sammie withdrew that $1G in Franklins just before the bombs started falling (paranoid I guess.) Somewhere thought I'd read about all but about $132M has been accounted for. So $23M might be significant.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-21 8:01:00 AM|| 2003-12-21 8:01:00 AM|| Front Page Top

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