Shortage of Gold?

dlshaw

These pictures were sent to me from a friend.
WHat can I say?


Gold

coinlieutenant

That is awesome. That is literally BILLIONS of dollars right there.

nwcs

Wow, that is really cool! I wonder if it's now in Ft. Knox?

elwood

When did this happen?

Placid

Is that the stuff that turned out to be fake that was found in the early part of the war?

chiefbob

I had a series of the same pics sent to me from someone in Army channels. He got it from one of the troops involved in the seizure. I don't think it's the fake stuff, as it allegedly was Saddam's loot the was trying to move out of Iraq.

What I don't understand is how the bottom of the tanker could support the sheer weight of all those gold bars. Maybe Saddam's henchmen reinforced the understructure.

Bob

1jester

Man, that's INSANE!!!!! And they say it's a useless relic... The $750K in cash was merely pocket change.

ohbaby

I wonder if it's now in Ft. Knox?

It's now in Don Rumsfeld's White House safe.

dlshaw

<< <i>What I don't understand is how the bottom of the tanker could support the sheer weight of all those gold bars. >>



Chie, that was one of my thoughts

baccaruda

That is awesome. That is literally BILLIONS of dollars right there.

87 more of these tankers and we'll be out of the red! That's naively assuming the American taxpayers will be credited with this wealth.

MPeter

In one discovery, they found the "gold" bars to be made up of copper and zinc and said it was probably melted down shell casings.

roadrunner

OK...if real...that might be 1/10 of 1% of the world's gold supply.....so??

roadrunner

PutTogether

I liked when they found that 100 million or so in cash too

Conder101

The one pallet load pictured would be roughly 36 million dollars.