$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida records every expense

Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 2:10 pm, Monday, December 30, 2013 | By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press

[thecodont]

[...] This transaction in northern Mali shows what might seem an unusual preoccupation for a terror group: Al-Qaida is obsessed with documenting the most minute expenses. [...]

[thecodont]

Look at the source documents at the link. Fascinating.

[JoeProBono]

$14 for a tube of super glue

[Viennacon]

They’re actually better at managing their finances than we are.

[Steely Tom]

Hitler was obsessed with paperwork and tiny details.

So was Saddam Hussein. Every penny had to be accounted for in his government.

[cripplecreek]

Islam is a socialistic ideology.

[C210N]

$0.60 FOR CAKE: AL-QAIDA RECORDS EVERY EXPENSE - thread from earlier today

[thecodont]

Sorry, search was done before I posted and I didn’t see this.

[Army Air Corps]

Even Al-Qaeda doesn’t want to be audited!

[Afterguard]

It is fascinating. What’s with murderous antisocial cults anyway. The Nazis were fastidious record keepers too...

[Afterguard]

By the way, that sir or ma’am is the quote of the day. Funny but sadly true.

[Viennacon]

Literally, our government cannot account for at times, millions of dollars spent at agencies, yet Al Qaeda knows how many light bulbs their outpost in Wazistan required this year.

Just goes to show that for all the squawking about the grand organization of mega-bureaucracy from libs, there is no method in their madness.

[Cvengr]

They don’t necessarily manage, but they do know how to pick the money tree.

[Repeat Offender]

$330 they spent to buy 3,300 rounds of ammunition.

If only we could sic the Brady Campaign on them......then they could enjoy the same high prices we do.

[thecodont]

Maybe Al-Qaida publishes a glossy annual report to its benefactors, complete with pie charts and balance sheets.

[Gamecock]

Having spending several years of my youth, and 10 years of my adult life in Germany, I can assure you that this is a German trait.

[VerySadAmerican]

Obama wants every cent he gives them accounted for.

[DaveA37]

$0.60 for a cake? WOW! Maybe those queers that made such a big stink of forcing a Washington baker to make them a wedding cake need to notice the low price and push their deviant needs elsewhere. Save a lot of legal court time.