Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. (before Jan.20,2007)

Is there anybody here that uses a McIntosh computer. I can no longer access Rolclub on my mac via firefox, safari or internet explorer. I now have to resort to my ancient pc which is about 8 years old. Would like to know if is just me or whether all our other mac uses are now unable to access as well.

Originally Posted by $onedaysoon$

The salary increases are calculated from this month
The dollar at 1260 dinars this year and drop to one thousand dinars soon

The Egyptian Minister of Finance that the 2007 budget had been lifted support for oil derivatives, and confirmed that his ministry had decided to work under a new salary from this month has allocated the funds required, but the House did not approve a plan of implementation so far, pointing out that the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar, will be at 1260 dinars for this year with a fiscal policy for the Iraqi dinar to normal.

He said Baqer Zubaidi, the Minister of Finance in a special Basubah yesterday : that the seven billion dollars is the value of crude oil, which is pumped from Iraqi oil fields to refineries Iraqi oil belongs to the Iraqi Oil Ministry said that this was in support of the Iraqi government for petroleum products also been allocated three billion dollars from the financial budget to cover the expenses of construction of new lines and maintenance of existing refineries, with a further $ 300-million dollars to buy kerosene.
He explained that Zubaidi Akiam amounts of the sale of petroleum products would remain with the Ministry of oil used to sustain and develop other oil projects, pointing out that the furor raised to support the lifting of oil derivatives has only included the lifting of subsidy on imported gasoline quality, which is used in modern cars.
And that the Ministry of Oil and the purchase of materials used in improving the derivatives of its own budget.
As for the salaries of the State Minister of Finance said : that his ministry had issued directives to the state regardless staff salaries according to a new salary but that the parliament has delayed the ratification of the implementation of the plan due to the lack of quorum as the delay in the preparation of the budget and its own budget approved by the Supreme Judiciary Council is the latest budget process by the government to the House of Representatives.
He pointed out that new applications for the government of Kurdistan, including deducting the value of its imports directly from the various added reason to delay submission of the budget.
He explained that the Ministry of Finance has figures for the budget of the Ministry of Defense and Ministry as decided by the sovereign to between the parties as called for by the Ministry of non-sovereign.
He emphasized - Zubaidi that the Ministry of Finance and in consultation with the Central Bank of seeks to identify the rate of exchange of the dollar the value of in 1260 dinars during the this year with laid down a plan to return the Iraqi dinar to its former era during the coming three years expressing his hope to stabilize the custody of during the coming three years expressing his hope to stabilize rate of exchange of 1000 dinars during the coming period the pointing out that the inflation not a situation fixed but is temporary and that one of the causes for crisis cruise goods and its access to the depths of the Iraqi ports because of the terrorist operations also that the rise of the prices of oil derivatives during crises another cause of inflation. Regarding the current year budget-Zubaidi described as ambitious for the first time achieved eight billion dollars for security, despite the allocation of large amounts of investment that will contribute to solve the crisis of unemployment and increase economic growth by 10-8%, so as to ensure the completion of service projects in all governorates.
He said the remaining funds from the account of the final years amounted to eight billion dollars that the government would provide final budget to the House of Representatives during the first quarter of this year.
He called Al-Zubaidi morning daily opening channels of communication with the Ministry of Finance for the purpose of participating in the transfer of the facts and push the other parties to determine the responsibility of financial policy and to support democracy by the government of national unity.
(Details of the meeting in a later issue)

Better yet let's shout it from the rooftops!!!

No friggin way they can wait that long unless they do an rv prior...way to much speculation...everyone and their mother would be rich then.

No Way

Originally Posted by janelle

Is there anybody here that uses a McIntosh computer. I can no longer access Rolclub on my mac via firefox, safari or internet explorer. I now have to resort to my ancient pc which is about 8 years old. Would like to know if is just me or whether all our other mac uses are now unable to access as well.

Nothing can be wrong with your Mac, haven't you seen the commercials??? Its only PC's that ever have problems....

Anyone else who can help her?? I can only afford PC's. Sorry.

Originally Posted by Cyberkhan

Better yet let's shout it from the rooftops!!!

No friggin way they can wait that long unless they do an rv prior...way to much speculation...everyone and their mother would be rich then.

No Way

This sounds like a shakeout article. Meant to create despair amongst those who are holding on to Dinar with the intent to get them to sell off, since things aren't going to apparently happen any time soon. Just my take, though.

Originally Posted by TerryTate

This sounds like a shakeout article. Meant to create despair amongst those who are holding on to Dinar with the intent to get them to sell off, since things aren't going to apparently happen any time soon. Just my take, though.

I don't believe it. All of a sudden we have some rate targets and a 3 year time frame. Do these people think we were born yesterday? Are they kidding? Something is up. Hang in there and hold on to your dinars!

FistFull of Dollars

Anyone who wants to get out . . .I'll buy your Dinar . . .766 USD per mil today :)

Originally Posted by DanielJay

How many times does the government have to say 1200 BY MIDDLE OF THE YEAR before anyone understands it? Im not sure I understand where anyone is getting any numbers higher than WHAT THEY SAID IT WILL BE.

Sorry, dont mean to rant. Just frustrated.

what about the 1380 article that was rehashed a bunch of times?? were we supposed to listen to what they said then too? and does that mean they are going to devalue to meet that original number that they surpassed without a peep?

Iraqis Answer Global Critics by Tackling Troubling Issues

BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 — Iraqi political leaders stepped up efforts to persuade the world that they were tackling the country’s thorniest problems on Wednesday, highlighting crackdowns on militias, pressing for more rapid arming of Iraqi troops, and underlining progress on a national oil law and new examples of reconciliation with former Baathists.

The flurry of activity on the part of the Shiite-led government came after weeks of punishing criticism from Western and Middle Eastern leaders, who have focused on everything from the government’s botched execution of Saddam Hussein to mounting chaos in Baghdad.

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki seemed to have taken as a challenge President Bush’s assessment that the Iraqi government had “fumbled” Saddam Hussein’s hanging. During an hourlong meeting with several foreign journalists on Wednesday, he suggested that Mr. Bush had been pushed to express disapproval by public opinion.

“I would like to correct President Bush that Saddam, that person, was not subjected to any act of revenge, any physical attack,” he said on a tape of the interview made available to The New York Times. “But it was a judicial process that ended with him executed or sentenced to death according to Iraqi law that sentences such criminals to death.”

“I know President Bush and I know him as a strong person that does not get affected by the media pressure,” Mr. Maliki continued. “But it seems that the pressure has gone to a great extent that led to the president giving this statement.”

He went on to assert that Iraq “is not witnessing a war of ethnic or sectarian cleansing” because Sunnis and Shiites were still meeting and trying “to salvage Iraq,” and he rejected the idea that his government tolerated militia infiltration of Iraq’s security forces, saying it had been detaining Shiite militiamen.

And he made a counterjab at the United States, saying that the failure to fully equip Iraqi troops had damaged efforts to bring peace to the country, and if the United States speeded up the process of giving Iraqi troops equipment and weapons, the need for American troops could be significantly reduced within three to six months.

Prime Minister Maliki also anticipated an increase in the budget this year. And he emphasized that the new security plan, including the addition of 20,000-plus American troops, was set to start in coming weeks. He said it would be directed by Iraqis — a contention that has been greeted by some American military officials with skepticism. Other Iraqi officials, meanwhile, scrambled to show that they were making progress.

Ahmad Chalabi, the former exile who helped the United States build the case for invading Iraq and who heads a committee on de-Baathification, appeared at a rare outdoor news conference in the Green Zone to announce that more than 700 Baathists had returned to their old government jobs.

Smiling behind a bank of television microphones as bombs and gunfire interrupted his speech, Mr. Chalabi, who had advocated a strong de-Baathification effort, said the government’s roster of rehired workers would continue to grow.

Falah Shanshel, one of about 30 lawmakers affiliated with the renegade Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, said the Sadr bloc would end its boycott of Parliament in the next few days. In Iraqi Kurdistan, Anwar Dolani, the military leader who oversees one of the brigades slated for the new Baghdad effort, said the last of his troops had left for the capital.

There were also hints of progress on one of the White House’s most challenging legislative demands: a new national oil law.

Barham Salih, a deputy prime minister who heads Iraq’s Oil Committee, said that a final draft of the law, expected for more than a month, could reach Parliament as early as next week. “We are finalizing the draft, and we have the lawyers going over it to make sure it is intact and consistent,” he said. But he declined to outline many of the latest draft’s details, suggesting that negotiations may still be incomplete.

Asim Jihad, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, said Wednesday that the new law included provisions for centralized oversight of contracts with foreign energy companies by a council of appointees from several ministries and the prime minister’s office.

If so, that would be a defeat for the Kurds on their longstanding demand for regional control, but it was unclear whether they had found another way to exert their authority. Mr. Salih, a Kurd, said only that the law “would have some surprises.”

Violence continued in Baghdad. For the second day in a row, a car bomb exploded in Sadr City, killing at least 11 people.

The United States military also said two American soldiers had died in Anbar Province, one on Wednesday, another on Monday.

In Washington, the National Democratic Institute, a nonprofit democracy-building group, reported that an American employee and three of her bodyguards from Croatia, Hungary and Iraq were killed Wednesday when their three-vehicle convoy was attacked in Baghdad.

The group released no names, saying it was “making contact with the families affected.”

Reporting was contributed by Khalid al-Ansary, Qais Mizher, Abdul Razzaq al-Saiedi and Khalid W. Hassan from Baghdad, and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Iraqi Kurdistan.

I believe it will revalue soon but the part "Zubaidi that the Ministry of Finance and in consultation with the Central Bank of seeks to identify the rate of exchange of the dollar the value of in 1260 dinars during the this year with laid down a plan to return the Iraqi dinar to its former era during the coming three years" That is some pretty big news..we have heard it before,but usaully in broken hard to read google translated arabic stuff, this is english. Who wouldnt invest in Dinar if they read in the mainstream media they could buy a million for $850.00 and have close to 3 mill in 3 years time?

edit title: GOOD NEWS not God news...

World News

The Times January 18, 2007

Give us guns – and troops can go, says Iraqi leader
Stephen Farrell in Baghdad
# Prime Minister wants change of US policy
# Mistakes over Saddam hanging, Times told

A mother comforts her daughter who was injured in the attack on university students in Baghdad, in which at least 60 people were killed (Ali Abbas/EPA)

Listen to the interview with Nouri al-Maliki

America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday.

Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment. If it released the necessary arms, US forces could “drastically” cut their numbers in three to six months, he told The Times.

In a sign of the tense relations with Washington, he chided the US for suggesting his Government was living on “borrowed time”. Such criticism boosted Iraq’s extremists, he said, and was more a reflection of “some kind of crisis situation” in Washington after the Republicans’ midterm election losses. Mr al-Maliki conceded that his administration had made mistakes over the hanging of Saddam Hussein. But he refused to accept all criticism over the execution. When asked about the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s attack on Iraq’s capital punishment laws, Mr al-

Maliki cited the Italians’ summary killing of Benito Mussolini and his stringing-up from a lamppost.

Asked how long Iraq would require US troops, Mr al-Maliki said: “If we succeed in implementing the agreement between us to speed up the equipping and providing weapons to our military forces, I think that within three to six months our need for American troops will dramatically go down. That is on condition that there are real, strong efforts to support our military forces and equipping and arming them.”

The US Government is wary of handing over large amounts of military hardware to the Iraqis because it has sometimes ended up in the hands of militias and insurgents.

Gordon Johndroe, the White House national security spokesman, conceded that some of Mr al-Maliki’s criticism was “valid”. The training and equipping of Iraqi troops would be speeded up, he said, adding that by “self-admission we have had to redo our training and equipment programme”.

Although Mr al-Maliki’s tone was measured throughout, he is clearly irritated at US criticism that he has failed to curb Shia militias. Robert Gates, the new US Defence Secretary, said that Mr al-Maliki could lose his job if he failed to stop communal bloodshed and Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, gave a warning that he was living on “borrowed time” and that American patience was running out.

Challenged on the point, Mr al-Maliki remarked acidly: “Certain officials are going through a crisis. Secretary Rice is expressing her own point of view if she thinks that the Government is on borrowed time, whether it is borrowed time for the Iraqi Government or American Administration. I don’t think we are on borrowed time.”

He added: “I wish that we could receive strong messages of support from the US so we don’t give some boost to the terrorists and make them feel that they might have achieved success. I believe that such statements give moral boosts to the terrorists and push them towards making an extra effort and making them believe that they have defeated the American Administration, but I can tell you that they haven’t defeated the Iraqi Government.”

He rejected the accusation that his Government was “lenient” with Shia militias, saying 400 al-Mahdi Army members had been arrested in recent days, in crackdowns in southern towns such as Karbala, Samawa, Diwaniya and al-Nasiriya.

And he insisted that he was prepared to fulfil his promises to Washington and confront the militias of Shia parties within his coalition, including Moqtada al-Sadr’s widely feared al-Mahdi Army. He conceded that some “sectarian” acts were being perpetrated. But he said there would not be a civil war because Sunni and Shia had lived in peace for many years.