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What kind of money? Gold? Cash? Travellers' cheques? A bank transfer? Drugs? Weapons?
Presumably it wasn't one of those shiny suitcases full of notes you see in movies.
And even if it was - what was he going to spend it on, in Afghanistan? And how was he going to get it out of the country with being mugged?
It all seems rather implausible.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
It probably went next to the drugs on the next military flight home.
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish | World news | The Guardian
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
If it is not recycled within the CIA, it could be used to finance war in Afghanistan or a life of luxury in any country with low costs and corruptible customs officers. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
Appearances notwithstanding, not all European spies are total idiots. Some of them would notice if you started taking that sort of -denominated paper money out of the -zone banking system. Plus, the American empire is based on dollar hegemony. Wouldn't want to teach the locals to expect their bribes in . That might do Bad Things to The American WayTM.
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