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1 posted on 06/02/2003 2:03:46 PM PDT by knighthawk

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2 posted on 06/02/2003 2:04:27 PM PDT by knighthawk (Full of power I'm spreading my wings, facing the storm that is gathering near)

The gold had been bought in Dubai, melted down and impurities added to increase its weight, then re-sold in Germany.

They got away with this for two years?

6 posted on 06/02/2003 2:43:28 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)

Didn't Osama say in one of his speeches that he wanted to destroy the American economy? Do you think he's lame enough to believe we're still on the gold standard?

Sometimes there's method to his madness...

Tunisian man arrested in March on suspicion of plotting Islamic extremist attacks has been implicated in a gold smuggling scam aimed at financing al Qaeda.

Ihsan Garnaoui, 32, was involved for two years in gold smuggling that earned profits of 3.7 million euro ($7.5 million), says the German news magazine Focus.

The gold had been bought in Dubai, melted down and impurities added to increase its weight, then re-sold in Germany.

7 posted on 06/03/2003 7:55:16 AM PDT by GOPJ

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