BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Old Guy
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 12:14 AM

That fake currency won't get past a bank. Maybe a few but when they are detected, banks are notified of what to look for.

The bank gets stuck with the fakes, not the gummint.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Ron Davies
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 11:35 PM

Why not use the "Great Satan's" money? Depends on who winds up holding the bag (of worthless currency).

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: GUEST,282RA
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 06:47 PM

Just disproves the old stereotype--

Jews obviously don't shit about how to make money.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 06:46 PM

If the US replaced the greenback with the blueback (for historical reasons the redback may not be so popular), then the exchange rate wouldplummet...

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Old Guy
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:07 PM

The US is almost as crafty as George Soros when it comes to manupulating currencies.

It is still Ironic that they would use money from the great Satan.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 11:33 AM

There, I thought that Hezbollocks were making a whole load of counterfeit generosity to flood the USA with. Then I realised that would be silly, there's no market for it there.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:46 AM

"I find it Ironic that they would use money from the great Satan."

Not at all - the USA went to great effort to destroy the international Gold Standard and replace it with the US dollar as the International Money standard... Even the arms dealers and drug dealers use US dollars... why not terrorists too?

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Old Guy
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:09 AM

What guy? What country?

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: dianavan
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:04 AM

I wonder what That Guy would do if his country were invaded?

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Old Guy
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:29 AM

I find it Ironic that they woulo use money from the great Satan.

Why don't they create their own currency with Mohammad on the front and an infidel getting decapitated on the back.

In Allah We Trust

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Ron Davies
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:35 PM

Why do I think you may just possibly not be serious?

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:32 PM

I hear they are being honoured in all the Hezbollah owned convenience stores in southern Lebanon.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Ron Davies
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:24 PM

Question: are they being honored despite being counterfeit?

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Peace
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 08:15 PM

Well, I AM surprised.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 08:13 PM

Anyone remember the reference in a previous thread here about full sheets of printed banknotes lying around in the street after an Israeli bomb strike?

There were claims then of fake notes.

I did notice immediately then that the notes shown being counted looked almost too new to be believable.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: Old Guy
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 07:29 PM

Excellebt DF.

I think the counterfeit bills are printed in Iran. What happens when they hit a bank? Doesen't the depositor find out he has been ripped off and start some sort of legal action?

Maybe the fake bills are just use to make proprganda photos and footage.   

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060826-101825-7229r.htm

• "Hezbollah gives immediate relief to help Lebanese rebuild." An accompanying photograph shows a "Hezbollah official" dispensing $12,000 in brand new U.S. $50 and $100 bills to "victims of Israeli destruction." Another article said Hezbollah was handing out "dollars for Lebanese reconstruction faster than the American government can help those made homeless by hurricanes." It's remarkably effective propaganda -- apparently unchallenged by any media outlet or U.S. official. "Doesn't anyone in Washington remember that the Iranians have printed millions in high-quality counterfeit U.S. currency -- and made duplicate plates and paper for their friends in Pyongyang?" asked my friend. An inquiry to the State and Treasury Departments whether anyone knew if the "Hezbollah reconstruction aid dollars" were counterfeit essentially produced a shrug.

Subject: RE: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 11:04 AM

I hope the anti-Israeli idealogues whose opinions have been informed, in part, by the aforementioned reporting will not be too disheartened by these revelations.

Subject: BS: Hezbollah's counterfeit generosity
From: GUEST,DF
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 09:54 AM

You probably saw the picture with this caption in your local newspaper:

"A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hezbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hezbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shiites and embarrassing the Beirut government. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (LEBANON)"

This scene and dozens more like it flashed around the planet. Only one thing was missing -- the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US$100 bill. The money Hezbollah was passing was counterfeit, as should have been evident to anybody who studied the photographs with due care.

Care was due because of Hezbollah's history of counterfeiting: In June, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury publicly cited Hezbollah as one of the planet's leading forgers of U.S. currency.

But this knowledge was disregarded by the news organizations who queued up to publicize Hezbollah's pseudo-philanthropy. The passing of counterfeit bills was detected not by the reporters and photographers on the spot, but by bloggers thousands of miles away: nappedShots.com, MyPetJawa and Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs. These sites
magnified photographs and showed them to currency experts and detected irregularity after irregularity in the bills.

Maybe it's too much to expect journalists to be currency experts. But one does expect them to be able to detect a manipulated photograph, especially a crudely manipulated one. Yet it was again Charles Johnson -- who is a professional musician by the way -- and not a news editor,
who caught Reuters distributing faked photographs by its now infamous Lebanese staff photographer, Adnan Hajj.

Hajj used Photoshop software to make fires in Lebanese cities look larger than they were and to transform photos of Israeli signal flares into apparent images of missiles in full flight. For this and other faked pictures, Hajj was fired and Reuters removed almost a thousand of his photographs from its archive.

But the scandal of Lebanese war coverage only begins with Hajj; it does not end there -- nowhere close.

In July, respected news organizations like AP, the BBC, Time Magazine, ITN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and thousands of others broadcast the shocking news that Israeli forces had fired missiles at two clearly marked Red Cross ambulances, igniting intense fires that injured their passengers. Accompanying photographs and then later footage taken by somebody described as a "local cameraman" showed a
badly damaged ambulance with a hole in the dead centre of the roof.

Yet as the blogger Zombietime.com has demonstrated, the whole story is a crude hoax. Photographs of the ambulances in question show no signs of blast or burn. Nor was there any damage to the floor of the ambulance -- as one would expect if a missile had smashed through the roof. The badly "wounded" and heavily bandaged ambulance driver who appeared in the stories resurfaced in other news footage six days
later without so much as a scratch upon him. The hole in the roof was not only perfectly round, but it matched exactly the size and placement of the ambulance's missing siren. The siren must have been removed some time before, because the edge of the hole was corroded by rust.

Although journalists were not allowed to inspect the ambulances themselves -- and had to rely on images supplied by Hezbollah -- and although the ambulance drivers' stories changed and changed again, becoming more dramatic with each retelling, every single Western reporter who covered the story accepted it as unquestioned fact.

So are reporters just gullible? The most troubling of all the blog reports, this posted at EUReferendum.com, strongly suggests a more disturbing explanation.

The authors of the EUReferendum blog painstakingly studied all the available photographic evidence of the damage done by the Israeli bombing of a Hezbollah compound near the village of Qana on July 30. According to many press reports, the Israeli bombs struck a three-storey building, trapping civilians and childrens in the rubble. The toll was estimated at some 60 people, later reduced to 28. The
photographs and television footage from this sad scene became some of the most famous footage of the whole Lebanon war.

At the EUReferendum site, you can see over many Web pages a compilation of evidence that proves beyond all reasonable doubt that the images from Qana were not merely staged -- but staged with the active knowledge and complicity of the Western journalists on the scene.

Scenes were enacted and re-enacted; dead bodies were carried from point to point and then back again; Hezbollah spokesmen chatted on cellphones when they believed the cameras were turned away from them -- and then erupted in tears and anguish when they believed the cameras had turned on again.

How to account for this massive distortion? Yesterday, Annia Ciezadlo detailed in these pages Hezbollah's attempts to deceive the press. But why is the press so horribly susceptible to manipulation? Anti-Israel ideology plays its part. So too must competitive zeal. Photo-journalists want to win prizes -- and news organizations want scoops: If that means hiring local Hezbollah sympathizers to carry cameras where more objective journalists are forbidden to go, that
is a price that news organizations will too often pay.

Finally, let's not underestimate the power of fear: Hezbollah is the terrorist organization that held the AP reporter Terry Anderson hostage in Lebanon for six years. As the stories of Jill Caroll of the Christian Science Monitor, Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig of Fox News, and of course Daniel Pearl remind us, Middle Eastern terrorist groups do not scruple to seize and murder journalists.