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View Article  How much does a loaf of bread cost in Zimbabwe compared to here?

This is a tougher question to answer than it seems.

A BBC story put a loaf's price at 65 million Zimbabwean dollars.

The official exchange rate is about 29,774 Zimbabwean dollars to the Loonie, according to Yahoo! Finance's currency calculator.

That would make a loaf of bread worth ... $2,183.

A decent loaf of multigrain at the Kensington Market bakery here is $2.89.

The National Post wrote this on April 16 in an article entitled It's not just inflation, it's hyperinflation!

As if the appearance of newly-minted $50,000,000 bank notes worth all of about US$1.20, or the equivalent of three loaves of bread ...

That would make the price of a loaf of bread to be about 40 cents (the loonie was pretty close to par today), and would mean a real exchange rate of 41,666,666.67 Zimbabwean dollars to the Loonie.

View Article  Hey: We attacked the WTC, not the Israelis, you lying Iranian bastards

From the BBC:

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has blamed Iran for spreading the theory that Israel was behind the 11 September 2001 attacks.

In an audio tape posted on the internet, Zawahiri insisted al-Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the US.

He accused Iran, and its Hezbollah allies, of trying to discredit Osama Bin Laden's network.

Correspondents say the comments underline al-Qaeda's increasing public hostility towards Iran. ...

The purpose of this lie is clear - [to suggest] that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no-one else did in history," he said.

"Iranian media snapped up this lie and repeated it."

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