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

Just think if the Iraqi's replaced the word "Enact" with the word "Hang"....

You would see just how fast a law would be "Hanged"....

JMHO.

Originally Posted by Hardwood

Just think if the Iraqi's replaced the word "Enact" with the word "Hang"....

You would see just how fast a law would be "Hanged"....

JMHO.

Ya, The PM would sign it and it would be done before the sun comes up.

Originally Posted by Mike5200

Doctors plead for Iraqi children
Posted on : Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:06:00 GMT | Author : Science News Editor
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LONDON, Jan. 19 A group of doctors is pleading that British Prime Minister Tony Blair end medical shortages they say are killing Iraqi children.

Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic medicines or other resources, the doctors said in a letter quoted in The Independent. Children who have lost hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave psychological distress are left untreated.The doctors said that conditions in Iraqi hospitals are a breach of the Geneva and Hague conventions, which require Great Britain and the United States to maintain order and to look after the medical needs of the population.The letter said that babies are dying because they lack oxygen masks, vitamin K or sterile needles. Hospitals can't control the spread of infection because they have no surgical gloves, the letter said.


The doctors called on the British government to account for $33 billion in an Iraqi development fund, which they said should have funded the proper treatment of children. They said $14 billion was believed to have disappeared through theft, corruption and payments to mercenaries, The Independent said.


Copyright 2007 by UPI

This should not surprise us - it is a practice which goes on all over the world.

Originally Posted by Maddawg

Praise in PUBLIC and Criticize in PRIVATE

BRAVO!!!!

By JAMES GLANZ
Published: January 20, 2007
BAGHDAD, Jan. 19 — After months of tense bargaining, a cabinet-level committee has produced a draft law governing Iraq’s vast oil fields that would distribute all revenues through the federal government and grant Baghdad wide powers in exploration, development and awarding major international contracts.

The draft, described Friday by several members of the committee, could still change and must be approved by the Iraqi cabinet and Parliament before it becomes law. Negotiations have veered off track in the past, and members of the political and sectarian groups with interest in the law could still object as they read it more closely.

But if approved in anything close to its present form, the law would appear to settle a longstanding debate over whether the oil industry and its revenues should be overseen by the central government or the regions dominated by Kurds in the north and Shiite Arabs in the south, where the richest oil fields are located.

The draft comes down firmly on the side of central oversight, a decision that advocates for Iraq’s unity are likely to trumpet as a triumph. Because control of the oil industry touches so directly on the interests of all Iraq’s warring sectarian groups, and therefore the future of the country, the proposed law has been described as the most critical piece of pending legislation.

“This will give us the basis of the unity of this country,” said Ali Baban, the Iraqi planning minister and a member of the Sunni-dominated Tawafaq party who serves on the negotiating committee. “We pushed for the center in Baghdad, but we didn’t neglect the Kurds and other regions,” Mr. Baban said.

Negotiators said that the final weeks of wrangling on the draft focused on a federal committee that would be set up to review the oil contracts. Kurdish, and to some extent Shiite, parties wanted to maintain regional control over the contracts, while Sunni Arabs, with few oil resources on territories they dominate, insisted that the federal committee have the power to approve contracts, rather than just reviewing them and offering advice.

The negotiators appear to have finessed that issue by allowing the regions to initiate the process of tendering contracts before sending them to Baghdad for approval. To limit the powers of the committee, they also have drawn up an exacting set of criteria to govern the deliberations of the committee rather than simply relying on its independent discretion. And in a bow to the Kurds, who objected to the use of the word “approve” in describing the committee’s duties, the draft law says instead that the committee may review and reject contracts that do not meet the criteria.

The draft law would also radically restructure parts of Iraq’s state-controlled oil industry by giving wide independence — possibly leading to eventual privatization — to the government companies that control oil exports, the maintenance of pipelines and the operation of oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

The law would also revive the Iraqi National Oil Company, a countrywide umbrella organization that was essentially closed by Saddam Hussein.

At the same time, the law would place substantial administrative authorities outside Baghdad by allowing any region that produces at least 150,000 barrels of oil a day to create its own operating company, according to Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister and member of a powerful coalition of Shiite political parties who also serves on the negotiating committee.

Barham Salih, a deputy prime minister and the chairman of the negotiating committee, said that the precise wording of clauses could still change. He was speaking by telephone from Iraqi Kurdistan, where Mr. Salih, a Kurd, said he was still working to cement support for some provisions in the draft law.

“This is the most important piece of legislation that Iraq will adopt, and it is not a surprise that it is taking long, tedious rounds of negotiations,” Mr. Salih said. “We are close, but we have not yet closed the deal. We are making progress and need to continue.”

The developments come with several additional cautions, not the least of which is that in Iraq’s chaotic wartime environment, even laws that do get passed can have little impact. In one example of a document arrived at through similar negotiations, Iraq’s Constitution, it remains unclear what effect many of the fastidiously negotiated clauses are having in the governance of the country. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/wo...html?ref=world

Think We're Losing Iraq? Take a Look at the Dinar
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 19, 2007

A D V E R T I S E M E N T


A D V E R T I S E M E N T

War rages in Iraq. America is preparing to launch an offensive in Baghdad, Iranians are infiltrating the country, and, according to the United Nations, civilians in Iraq are dying at a rate of 100 people a day.

Yet the Iraqi currency is rising in value.

Tuesday, the rate of exchange had reached 1,308 dinars to the American dollar — up from 1,470 last November. Money changers in Baghdad say they cannot keep up with the demand and that Iraqis who used to hang on to their American dollars for dear life are rushing to exchange them.

What gives?

The answers are as murky as anything in Iraq, and the actions of both good and bad guys seem to be helping the dinar.

Originally Posted by PlatanoKing

The council held its 59 open chaired by Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani President of the Council, on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at the Conference Palace in Baghdad.

Wednesday 1-17-2007

Bdaet meeting, the Chair to mention two first travel ban and send members until January 25, 2007 pending the completion of the vote on the budget, and second opinions and observations on each bill blocks public service ...
After that appealed MP Qassim Dawood member attendees wondered about the reluctance of members of the audience asked the President of the Council to discuss the lack of a quorum and has been endorsed by Attorney-Saadi Alborznji, suggesting that the application of all previously agreed upon, for its part suggested Deputy Osama Al formation of a committee to study ways to emerge from the crisis of the lack of quorum set the time of the vote and therefore the presence of the member.

According to Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani President of the Council had been hosted by the Prime Minister was to discuss the lack of quorum, student leaders urged members to attend blocs, appealing commentators expire attendees, suggesting three points to solve this issue, and penalties and replacement of members and powers, announcing that the Prime Minister will attend to the Council to answer all queries members.

The readers of the members of the Council Sura beginning for the souls of the martyrs of Mustansiriyah University, denouncing strongly MP Alaa Makki in a statement about the education and education massacre of Mustansiriyah University, condemned strongly the blasts that took place at the Mustansiriya University and Sadr City and other places in Baghdad, calling for the prime minister to put the issue of the security of universities within the priorities of the new security, and host ministers of the interior and defense and higher education to discuss this matter in the Council and contribute to the campaign of blood donation, which will be held in the Council.

It also provided the Attorney A'ala Talabani also issued a statement from the civil society organizations called upon all unions and student organizations and youth in all of Iraq and the support of all forces, currents, parties and political and intellectual religious councils for the establishment of consolation to those innocent souls.

And MP Haidar Swedish read out a statement about what he was subjected to pilgrims to the Holy City In the EA by the terrorist gangs.
, Denounced Deputy Captain Abdul Karim in his statement to the arrest of the American forces-member of the council of the province of Kut.

, The House of Representatives completed the first reading of the draft of the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, Board members continued to discuss the draft budget for 2007, where it was answered by the group of experts of the Ministry of Finance to all those questions, the same meeting was the first reading of the first section of the draft law on provincial territory of others regularly. To complete the first reading of the rest of the bill until tomorrow, Thursday January 18, 2007.

Information Service
The Iraqi parliament
January 17, 2007


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gonna make em sit still til the 25th and go nowhere so they dont lose their quorum. and they are examining ways to make it so they DONT wanna miss.

Originally Posted by dinartank

Can't believe nobody has commented on this...sounds like some important news? Does anyone know what exactly they mean by this statement?? Sometimes mybrain feels like this

another way of saying the sunday auction will have the same rate as thursday did. it was posted last week as well yes and thats what happened.

Originally Posted by greatstuff

No, this policy was new last week - they usually have an auction on Sunday.

thats right and then they adopt the sunday price for monday because of the market in nyc, ie forex.

WASHINGTON, Jan 20, 2007 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has returned to the US with assurances that so far Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is living up to his pledge to support a renewed crackdown on sectarian violence.

Three Iraqi divisions are lining up to go to Baghdad as promised and US forces have swooped down on suspected Iranian agents and death squad leaders, including an official of Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr's militia, without government interference.

"So far so good," General George Casey, the top US commander in Iraq told reporters Friday at Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq after a lightning tour of military installations in Basra and Tallil with Gates.

In an intense weeklong trip, Gates road tested his ideas for strengthening a badly weakened US position in Iraq and the region, placing a clear emphasis on flexing US military and diplomatic muscle despite the strains of a long war.

He met with NATO allies in Europe, endorsed commanders requests for more US troops in Afghanistan, and conferred with rulers of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf on his concerns that regional rival Iran is riding high on US difficulties in Iraq.

Gates returns home after road testing new Iraq, Iran strategy - Yahoo! News

I hope he got home and walked straight up to GWB and gave him a big hug and whispers in his ear, it's a done deal...