Funny money
Posted on 10/22/2005 7:08:01 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A smuggler arriving from Sydney has been caught at a New Zealand airport with almost $US1.3 million in counterfeit notes.
Mustafa Yousif Ibrahim was arrested at Auckland International Airport as he came off a flight from Sydney last night.
Ibrahim was born in Sudan but is believed to have been made a New Zealand resident in the early 1990s after arriving as a refugee.
A police summary of facts, presented in the Manukau District Court today, said the counterfeit money was found by customs officers as they searched Ibrahim's bags before he came through the entry gate at the airport.
"On searching the ... bags a large amount of counterfeit American currency was discovered.
"The currency was in 158 separate bundles."
Each of the bundles comprised 80 $US100 notes, with the total amount found coming to $US1.26 million, police said.
Police said Ibrahim could not give "any logical explanation" for having the money. He appeared on one charge of being in possession of forged currency.
Ibrahim, who said he was unemployed, was remanded on bail for two weeks and has had to hand over his passport to the police.
I wonder if he sold someone bombs or drugs and was double crossed...
We are in global war against Islamic terrorists, and they let this guy out on bail? Gee - I wonder what risk he is to jump - or be killed to eliminate the trail of evidence?
Time to wake up and smell the beheadings in NZ.
Funny money
Same money he paid bail with?
I think that may have been the main reason we changed them.
Terrorist countrys print American Money. Iran is the worst of the lot as they are printing money on presses we gave them to print their money.
If you were wondering why things cost so much now...
Basically they were so perfect that the only way to tell was by serial numbers.
These fake US $100 bills are coming from North Korea.
Wonder if they can establish a direct link between al-qaeda and NK from this.
Now that I think about it, they could even attack us if they made some good excuse and it was somewhat limited, and we would do nothing.
Seems like this should have garnered more discussion than it did.
yeah, what disturbs me is the thought that this is only the tip of the iceberg, and that many times more money will be dumped on the market at once by muslim terrorists to destabilize our economy and currency
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