From Gateway Pundit, news that should resound from FbL's excellent posts on the Iraqi economy needing an electronic means to transfer or dispense cash:
ATMs in Baghdad
ATMs in Baghdad
The installation and spreading of ATM machines in Baghdad is a testament to the security situation in the Capital. I find it hard to believe that any one would risk installing ATM machines let alone use them if security around them is suspect. Even on the streets of small town USA we are cautious about getting cash from an ATM machine. Iraqis in Baghdad are feeling secure enough to walk up to a machine and withdraw cash in a public place. This is just another piece of evidence that the surge (operation Rule of law to Iraqis) was and is successful beyond many expectations.
seriously.
small things that we take for granted, but over there this is an economic revolution
It is so ironic, isn't it, that the thing he tried to kill by flying planes into our financial buildings and killing 3,000 people, the thing he knew would be his down fall, thus, his pre-emptive strike against it, is the thing that will end him and his kind.
Right there in the heart of Arabia, on a Baghdad street in the heart of the old caliphate: yankee ingenuity and yankee finance.
Message to bin Laden: suck it, a$$hole.