Cash-bollah
posted at 10:11 am on August 22, 2006 by Bryan
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Part of the cash-bollah story isn’t all that hard to figure out: Hezbollah said it was getting money from Iran; Iran can turn on the petrodollar spigot any time it wants just by mouthing off; so Iran should have no trouble sending legit money to Hezbollah that it has generated from black gold.
But there’s the matter of the crisp, newness of Hezbollah’s cash. And the possible connection to North Korea’s master counterfeiters. And a few other things, besides.
Update: Aug 22? How’s this for an answer?
A Romanian oil company says Iranian forces have fired on and later boarded a Romanian oil rig moored in the Persian Gulf.
In Bucharest, a spokesman for the oil firm Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) said a worker telephoned from the Gulf this Tuesday morning and said an Iranian military helicopter had opened fire on the rig. The worker said Iranian troops boarded the platform a short while later.
The GSP spokesman said he had no information about injuries or deaths, and said there has been no further contact with the rig.
All your oil rigs are belong to us?
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During WWII, the Germans had a big operation counterfeiting British currency. They used that fake currency to pay for many espionage operations. There was a movie about a spy for the Germans, played by James Mason, who was shown at the end of the film laughing over the fact that he got paid off in counterfeit money. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if a lot of terrorist activity is paid with counterfeit U.S. currency printed in North Korea.
pjcomix on August 22, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Shades of Saddam. Is Iran going to claim the oil in the Persian Gulf?
Questian: are the Romanians drilling for themselves, or do they have a deal with another Persian Gulf country? They don’t border the Gulf so here is a mystery. Probably not a mystery to the oil cartels but to the MSM spending it’s time chasing Hez ambulances.
There is so much oil over there, I had not thought about drilling the Gulf.
I guess a girl can never have too much oil.
entagor on August 22, 2006 at 10:55 AM
The rig company GSP is drilling under a contract with a Dubai company Oriental Oil Co. and Petrom
entagor on August 22, 2006 at 11:01 AM
Iran and U.N. has set up us the bomb. We must make time.
Kid from Brooklyn on August 22, 2006 at 11:05 AM
Thanks for the All Your Base link. Now I get it.
In 1989, I saw a video game in Des Moines called “Violence Fight”. The phrase “bonus score” was replaced by “number much”.
Then there are the t-shirts …
mikeyboss on August 22, 2006 at 11:21 AM
Actually, Iran doesn’t have money to spare. They import gasoline (they don’t have their own refinaries) and they’re cash reserves are about to dry up (mid-september). They also subsidise most of the populations fuel costs (Iranians pay $0.40 a gallon, I think).
All lot of this military grandstanding is probably an excuse to deploy the revolutionary guard so they can declare martial law at a moments notice. A lot of people aren’t going to be very happy when the economy collapses.
Nurgle on August 22, 2006 at 5:19 PM
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