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Wife of Tunisian president fled riot-torn country with 1.5 TONNES of gold (HOLY****)
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| Comrade Stalin |
She looks like someone you don't with. No wonder the Tunisians are so pissed off.
The wife of Tunisia’s ousted president fled the chaos-stricken country with one-and-a-half tons of gold worth more than £35million, it emerged yesterday.
Dubbed ‘the Imelda Marcos of the Arab world’ because of her lavish lifestyle and love of designer clothes, Leila Trabelsi is said to have demanded the gold last week as President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali’s regime collapsed.
The chief of Tunisia’s central bank initially refused but Ben Ali, 74, personally intervened, and she flew out with the bullion as she joined him in exile in Saudi Arabia.
While many Tunisians faced unemployment, poor living conditions and oppression from Ben Ali’s brutal regime, his family – known as ‘The Mafia’ in the North African country’s capital Tunis – is said to have amassed a £3.5billion fortune. Much of it is kept in France, where some members of the family were still holed up last night.
The former president’s pregnant 24-year-old daughter Nesrine and her playboy husband Sakhr were taking cover in a series of suites in Disneyland Paris, together with a huge retinue of servants and bodyguards.
Gold haul: Leila Ben Ali's haul equates to roughly 2.6 cubic feet worth of gold bars
Dubbed the Tunisian Marie Antoinette, she used to fly luxury foods, including ice cream from St Tropez, to her beachside mansion by private jet while her husband kept a pet tiger, which he fed prime cuts of beef.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-gold-bars.html |
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| The17sss |
:stongue:
No wonder the people had enough. Fingers crossed North Korea's people oust Jong Il next! |
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| Ian |
Politician in corruption shocker!
I feel sorry for the people, this has caused all tourists to be evacuated and the normal hard working people who don't get much money rely on that industry. |
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| yukii |
| Lol, I don't think she'll be joining the peace corps any time soon. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Oh good, they escaped to Saudi Arabia. Now US tax dollars can help protect them from what they're due. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
Dubbed ‘the Imelda Marcos of the Arab world’
Dubbed the Tunisian Marie Antoinette |
Dubbed dub Dub Dub Dub dub |
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| Renzo |
| I fail to see what this has to do with James Earl Jones. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renzo
I fail to see what this has to do with James Earl Jones. |
This was his reaction when he heard the news:
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Comrade Stalin
She looks like someone you don't with. No wonder the Tunisians are so pissed off.
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I dunno man,
I think i would totally hit that |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
I dunno man,
I think i would totally hit that |
She'd look like a lumberjack without makeup. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
This was his reaction when he heard the news:
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:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Well you see, Renzo, Marie Antoinette had a long-standing historical infatuation with Hypatia, Queen of the Vandals. Before her eventual evisceration by conch-shell and boiling oil, Hypatia rode with the Vandal clan of Arabic horsemen who staged sacks across much of southern Europe and of course North Africa, including provinces that were to become modern Tunisia. Amongst their exploits, the vandals came across a cache of gold hidden by Latvian ascetics in previous decades that would fund their campaign for decades to come were it not for plundering Franks and Visigoths intent on pilfering the vast fortune. When Hypatia was captured in her family's Moroccan estate, Frankish wayfarers made off with the gold-casted armanents that had been the trademark of the wealthy bandits, and hastily expedited them to Gaul... or so they thought. The gold was intercepted by Spanish missionaries in central Romania after a freak wagon accident dispatched its greedy drivers. The monks, hungered, and rich only with a King's ransom of gold in a particularly impoverished part of Europe as well as several sacks of cocoa beans from the Phillipines, conceived of the notion that they could easily double their coffers by making foil of the gold and wrapping it around a chocolate center. The novelty was a hit amongst the European aristocracy, and actually funded the Benedictine monastery in which Umberto Eco's famous novel The Name of the Rose is based. I need not remind you of the real-life exploits held there.
These foils obviously became an immensely popular collector's item amongst the royalty of Europe for the next century, leading to our modern notion of 'chocolate coins', and of course valuable due to their rarified occurrence and actual gold-value. By the early 1800s, popularity had waned - as popularity does - and vast collections of these foil wrappers were stowed away by only the few, avid collectors left, and passed down throughout their families as heirlooms. In the tumult of the first world war, great estates were disrupted and pillaged, and the great chocolate foil collections were shipped east to more exotic markets for their re-sale. Imelda Marcos, ever the collector of now-defunct European fashion, purchased many of these collections on the black market, for display in her grandiose mansion. In the subsequent uprising, these foils were looted as the Marcos' were in exile, and eventually slagged down into buillion by the starving Phillipino populace, then re-sold to Arabic expatriates whereby they made their way to tunisia, and currently, Saudi Arabia.
And where does James Earl Jones fit into all of this? The man just loves his chocolate coins. No, really - his pockets are constantly full of them. Go ahead. Have a reach, will you? |
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