Where are Libya's 144 tons of gold ?

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Oct 23, 2011 at 16:40

Leaving aside that comedy of exporting democracy to Libya on the bayonets of the anonymous "rebels" and in NATO bombs and rockets one would like to learn what has happened to such an "undemocratic" thing as Libya's gold reserve assessed at 144 tons , i. e. the 25th biggest gold reserve in the world ?! One of the main 'sins' of Qaddafi , beside inviting the Chinese oil companies to Libya and refusing to participate in the NATO Africa Command, was his idea to issue gold dinar as an international currency that would have defeated the US dollar by the simple fact that since 1971 no gold has supported the US currency while the Libyan dinar was to be in gold.

Now with Qaddafi's death and the rebels free to establish "democracy' ( no doubt the same sort of democracy we know from Gaza or Afghanistan) we shouldn't forget about the gold and the ancient curse of gold. Where is it? In Fort Knox already or in the pockets of the so called "rebels" and their sponsors from the Moslem Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and/or the CIA ?

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