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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by anm89 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:43PM (#28952902)
I remember reading a while back that at some point at the beginning of our time in Afghanistan, at some point we shipped multiple pallets of bundled $100 dollar bills and we had no idea where any of it went

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by yholio on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:56AM (#28954092)
Why, as kickbacks to the future taliban government, a.k.a the former democratic leadership of Afghanistan, of course.
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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by hunterb123 on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:33AM (#28954005)
We have a habit of doing that:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...

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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by knownjorbist on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:20AM (#28955175)
This isn't the same at all, other than it's a lot of money going somewhere in the middle east.

It was their own money being returned to them and not pallets earmarked for development disappearing into the night.

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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by hunterb123 on Friday October 22, 2021 @11:13AM (#28958259)
Well that's the official story. The ulterior is it was basically a ransom payment for hostages released at the same time.

But really I was just noting how we love sending pallets of cash to our adversaries.

We have no way of knowing how they spent those pallets of bank notes in either exchange.

The whole point was our government loves to use cash in deals yet label civilians with too much cash as criminals!

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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by knownjorbist on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:03PM (#28963824)
The former was not sending pallets of cash to our adversaries.

Agreed that asset forfeiture should be illegal.

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Re:Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash by hunterb123 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:16PM (#29003149)
> then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

> Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents fighting the United States.

Literally in the article GP linked. You could argue that we don't know for sure, but the point is the US sends cash around willy nilly that can easily fall in the hands of terrorists while treating Americans like criminals if they have anything above pocket change.

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