Via OpinionJournal:
Funny Money? [link must be opened in IE]
A reader noticed something curious in a video from last night’s “NBC Nightly News.” Richard Engel, the network’s Beirut bureau chief, is reporting from southern Lebanon, and at 1:07 in the video, as he’s saying, “In Sidon, we found part of the financial district flattened,” you briefly see an image of what look like uncut sheets of U.S. hundred-dollar bills.
News reports have indicated that North Korea is quite the little US money forging entity. I’ll speculate that the DPRK is spreading its money making technology to Hezbollah through Iran.
I’m interested in what the follow up on this will be. If any of you catch something about it, leave a comment.
Yep. Those were uncut sheets of U.S. 100 dollar bills. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the NBC reporter didn’t pick up on that either.
I think it’s Iran that’s also counterfieting. Back in the mid 1990’s New York Magazine did a story about the super $20. Forged U.S. currency that was appearing overseas in Europe. It had the “super” tag because as the article said it was “as good” as what the U.S. mint made.
The article essentially pointed the finger at Iran, because it was the only other country at the time that had the same type of printing equipment (or something along those lines). These “super bills” were the motivating factor behind the U.S’s decision to redesign our currency and inact tougher anti-counterfeiting measures.