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2011-02-05 Africa North

A document reveals Mubarak's assets in Switzerland

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Mubarak had made a deposit transaction of 19,000 tons of Platinum

Black propaganda, but whose?

http://www.suite101.com/content/platinum-demand-likely-to-outpace-supply-a186871
1. Platinum is so rare that all of the metal ever mined would fill a room measuring less than 25 feet on each side.

2. One cubic foot weighs a little more than 1,330 pounds.

So all the platinum ever mined weighs less than 10,400 tons.

Posted by George Hupaviger4591 2011-02-05 03:51|| 2011-02-05 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks, George Hupaviger4591.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-02-05 05:25|| 2011-02-05 05:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, but try getting it out of an ATM...

Posted by tu3031 2011-02-05 11:24|| 2011-02-05 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 The Mubarak family is said to be worth about $40-70 billion. The Mubarak family owns properties in London, Paris, Madrid, Dubai, Washington, New York and Frankfurt. Not too bad for a public official.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-05 12:48|| 2011-02-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The Mubarak family is said to be worth about $40-70 billion

I've been puzzling over that since it was first mentioned here a few days ago. We've been paying Egypt one to two billion dollars a year since the Sadat signed the peace treaty, right? And it was not long after that Sadat was killed, giving Mubarak access to all that lovely money. In order to have that kind of a net worth, he would have had to skim off almost all the dollars coming in, right? Or at least half that much, given the growth of property values in the place JohnQC listed.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-05 13:51|| 2011-02-05 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 He got cattle futures tips from Hillary

Posted by Frank G 2011-02-05 14:27|| 2011-02-05 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I would suggest rhenium futures, for a small piece of the action.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-02-05 15:08|| 2011-02-05 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 AB gived me a gram of rhenium for my BD a few years back. I think a cat ate it.

Posted by Zombie Hillary Lover 2011-02-05 17:03|| 2011-02-05 17:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I think this is a falsehood being spread by the same guys who also say that 9/11 was an inside job. Citizens of a lot of Third World countries - including expatriates who have to the US - think that their home countries are poor because we are robbing them blind. If they can believe such crock I don't see why they wouldn't believe that Mubarak has $50B in the bank. At the peak of his wealth, Brunei's king - who has access to oil revenues of $8b a year - was only worth $40b.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-05 19:14|| 2011-02-05 19:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Bambi's ears started flapping when he heard Mubarak has $70 billion.
"Mubarak, Mubarak" "my second name is Barak, I wonder if we are related?"
"Why that's more than the Boss has"
Just then the phone rang and Bambi sprung to attention.
"Don't even think about it" the voice bellowed.
"When I buy you, you stay bought, you miserable twerp, do you understand?"
"Yes Mr Soros, yes Mr Soros" Bambi whined, but he could not get his mind off that $70 billion.

Posted by tipper 2011-02-05 19:50|| 2011-02-05 19:50|| Front Page Top

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