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American soldier standing in a truck loaded with gold recovered from Saddam Hussein – Iraq, 2003.
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Wonder how much it’s all worth ? (Dollars equivalent) Cool picture
Recovered?
I recognize him, he’s the guy with mansion in Malibu.
We gave it all back to its rightful owners, right guys? … Guys? …
Bullion? Like the thing you make soup with?
Anyone know who the guy is? Is it Maj. Casado from this article?
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/08/04/Saddams-gold-discovered-in-truck/76091060023330/
Three Kings
“Recovered” lmao good one
His pocket seems blocky lol
It was half full when we found it. I swear !
I thought George Clooney stole this not the Iraqis
…And not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.
We three kings be stealin’ the gold.
Pvt to corporal- all 893 bars loaded up and good to go corporal
Corporal to sargent – all 885 bars good to go sargent
Sargent to staff sargent – all 875 bars good to go staff sargent
SSG to lieutenant – all 850 bars good to go lieutenant
Lieutenant to captain – all 815 bars good to go cap’n
Captain to major – all 750 bars good to go major
So on and so forth until highest ranking officer is reporting in
All 25 bars loaded and good to go sir
My brother was in the Army and told me about “money runs” where pallets of cash were delivered to tribal leaders in Afghanistan. The troop couriers would sleep on them to guard them. I always thought it would make a good movie.
Man I’d have taken a knife to every bar and shaved off an oz or 2
I think George Clooney did a movie on this very subject, titled Three Kings. Good movie, too, if I recall.
“We three Kings be stealing the gold!”
He was led there by an Iraqi Ass-Map.
These pictures AGAIN, the money was taken from Saddam and given to the Kuwaiti government/people. I was in the military, we did NOT take their gold. There is a paywall, just use 12ft ladder to get by it:
[https://nptelegraph.com/news/he-guarded-treasure-in-iraq/article_4c67a334-1989-58ff-9b37-b4bc487fcdbd.html](https://nptelegraph.com/news/he-guarded-treasure-in-iraq/article_4c67a334-1989-58ff-9b37-b4bc487fcdbd.html)
These were gold reserves stolen from Kuwait by the Iraqi army in 1991. Yes, the US actually did return all of it to the Kuwaiti government. People keep posting this dishonestly every few months.
Ahh yes, this is where they got the plot for *Three Kings* (1999)*.*
Banger of a movie. Check it out.
“HQ….we’ve completed the count. 25 bars were located. I repeat 2-5 bars”.
Ugh this shit again.
The gold was stolen by Saddam officials who were smuggling it to Syria. They got caught at the border.
The gold was returned to the Iraqi treasury and Iraq’s total gold reserves have actually grown since the invasion.
If you think $300m in gold bars would cover even a week of deploying 200k soldiers to Iraq you have no idea how expensive war is.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2003/5/27/iraq-money-and-gold-retrieved
There’s so many fucking anti-American, shit-hole-residing idiots in this thread! The US recovered the gold on behalf of the Kuwaitis! The gold was returned to its rightful owners after the Iraqis stole it from Kuwait!
this picture gets posted every three months or so by a russia bot to farm karma and stir shit up
There are 1000 gold bars in total.
What do you mean 1000? We only recovered 500
My sister was in Iraq little days after, we took over Bagdad. She worked for the Army Corp of Engineers. They stayed in Saddams palace. One of her jobs was to bring the US Currency from the vaults under Saddams palace upstairs to be counted. Each backpack she brought up had $67,000 to $70,000 in it, and it took them days to empty the vault. The money was counted and removed, and used to pay US Contractors doing work over there. She came back with rugs,glassware from his palace. Why in the hell she didn’t roll any cash up in those rugs before she brought them home I’ll never know.
Recovered is one or the possible words to describe what mr. Soldier is doing
“Recovered” lol