Hundreds of Millions Found in Iraq
Two Army sergeants searching for saws to clear away branches blocking their Humvee stumbled onto an amazing discovery—more than half a billion US dollars, hidden in sealed-up cottages in an upper class Baghdad neighborhood: Soldiers Stumble on Outrageous Fortune.
The sergeants tore down a cinder-block and concrete barricade at the cottage door and found 40 sealed galvanized aluminum boxes lined up neatly on the stone floor. Breaking open one box, they were stunned to discover 40 sealed stacks of uncirculated $100 bills — $100,000 per stack, or $4 million in the box. In all, the 40 boxes were assumed to contain $160 million.
But there was more.
In an adjacent cottage in an exclusive Tigris River neighborhood where senior Baath Party and Republican Guard officials had lived, the sergeants found another 40 aluminum boxes assumed to contain another $160 million in currency. In a matter of minutes, they had uncovered $320 million in cash.
“I need to call my wife and tell her we were multimillionaires for about three seconds,” Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff said as he stood next to a box stuffed with sealed bundles of currency.
Their discovery set off a nighttime search of abandoned estates tucked among parks and canals. By 11 p.m., soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division had found two more cottages containing at least 84 more boxes presumed to hold $336 million in cash, for a total of $656 million.
So, lefty loons. I know you’re reading. Tell me again how horrible the sanctions were, you hopeless deluded fools.
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times (source of the story above) is making their web site more and more unpleasant to visit; in addition to two pop-under advertisements, they now have an ad window that pops up when you close their site—a technique known as “respawning,” pioneered by the pr0n industry and now gleefully employed by “mainstream” media like the Los Angeles Times. Disgusting, annoying, and ultimately self-destructive.
Here’s a bookmarklet that disables “respawns.” To use it, click and drag the link to your browser’s toolbar, and when you visit the LA Times click the bookmarklet link before closing their window.