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To: americanophile
French military sources say there was between 200 and 250 vehicles, escorted by Niger army vehicles. Certainly they would have been carrying the mercenaries from Niger and Chad and Burkina, etc.

Unlikely Gaddafi moves the gold in such an obvious way.

He would use this as a ruse to distract NATO.

The Touregs are a wild bunch and know no borders, they would extract a heavy price from Qaddafi. Burkina Faso would hardly be a safe place for that gold.

Qaddafi has 5 billion, that's 160,000 pounds of gold. He could be quite safe right now in Sirte, a busy port city on the Med. He could easily have that gold in any number of ordinary freighters that could go anywhere in the world, undetected.

The world is far too busy thinking he's a nut case.

23 posted on 09/06/2011 9:03:07 AM PDT by gandalftb (11th MEU TRAP force)
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This operations shall henceforth be known as Obama's Africa Gold Robbery
24 posted on 09/06/2011 9:24:47 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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