money shots!

An update on the funny money.

Allahpundit questions the crisp new Satan money (U.S. currency) but I like Snappedshot's spread from all the usual suspects: Kevin Frayer, Hussein Malla and Kevork Djansezian plus a newbie to me, Eric Gaillard.

Update: my take based on one of Gaillard's photos third from the bottom at Snappedshot is that the money is fake as there is no red security thread. Probably why the woman seems to be suppressing a giggle in the photo fourth from the bottom. Go tell Snappedshot what you think.

Update 2: Others have concluded the photos aren't conclusive as not enough backlighting, but based on Hezbollah's history of counterfeiting US money, still very likely.

Update 3: Power and Control on Cash flow Jihad. Hezbollah plays Oprah.

I'm particularly taken by all the maps with splatters of red. Would anyone care to do a comparison? And really why bother when you have the internet?

Here are the target areas in Beirut which Michael Béhé noted a couple of weeks ago thanks to Google Earth:

This is what they look like now thanks to the New York Times which is happy to publish propagandallah (my favourite, dead man walking in Tyre. Where's Benny Hinn when he needs it?)  Or you can get maps from other local relief organisations.

But where's our Lefteris Patarakis you ask?

Chasing obligatory wailing women.  Oh and a divinely vicotorious man.

Lebanese friends and relatives gather around the graves of brothers Mohammed Kamal Idin, 21, and Fadi Kamal Idin, 30, foreground, and the one of Abbas Mahmoud Dakroub, background, all killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive, in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Lebanese Hussein Assan pauses next to next to the graves of his friends, brothers Mohammed Kamal Idin, 21, and Fadi Kamal Idin, 30, both killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Nope this ain't good enough, let's get man into the main game where the real wailing women are:

Relatives and friends of Lebanese Mariam Dakroub, bottom left, and her sister Loubna Dakroub, right, try to comfort them next to the grave of their brother Abbas Mahmoud Dakroub, killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Lebanese Mariam, left, and Loubna Dakroub, right, cry over the grave of their brother Abbas Mahmoud Dakroub, killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Lebanese Loubna Dakroub burst into tears next to the grave of her brother Abbas Amin Dakroub, 18, killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Lebanese Mariam Dakroub burst into tears next to the grave of her brother Abbas Amin Dakroub, 18, killed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

It really is A Wonderful Life.

Not a dry eye in the house.