This makes so much sense, especially when you consider the previous history of hostility the US government has towards the efforts of other that have grown out of Gaddafi's proposed gold-based currency plan. Read up on "e-gold" and what became of the Libertarian entreprenuer in Florida and his muslim partners in Spain that tried to make that work. See the link here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/egold_pr.html

Indonesia's leader, Suharto, who had been our great ally in the region during the Cold War, suddenly got ousted in a coup engineered by the US after he too proposed that the only sound currency (and allowed by islamic law) was gold.