[National Post-Canada/American Enterprise Institute] David Frum - The Reuters photo showed Hizballah members handing out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing. Only one thing was missing - the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine U.S. $100 bill. Was the money Hizballah was passing counterfeit? Hizballah has a history of counterfeiting: In June, 2004, the U.S. Treasury Department cited Hizballah as one of the planet's leading forgers of U.S. currency.
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