Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. before Febuary 2nd 2006

Originally Posted by lglwzrd

i take exception with the phrase "current rumors looking promising". i think realistically the fil-ici-hcl-all need to be enacted b4 any rv. until we see those laws passed and enacted-we will continue to see a slow rv. all rumors are appreciated and there certainly has been more and more corroborating statements with ea rumor. there certainly is an excitement in the air from here to there about this. its gonna come and this year. i have moved off of my 2008 position to 2007. that says a lot coming from me.

LOL, yes it does...

All smiles here so how bout a high five.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States on warmly welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's vow to hunt down militants under
President George W. Bush's new plan to clamp security on Baghdad.

But Democrats in Congress, who have resisted the troop-surge component of the new plan to quell raging sectarian strife, demanded to know why a billion-dollar US economic aid pledge would be more successful than previous efforts.

Maliki said earlier Thursday in a speech to the Iraqi parliament that there would be no safe haven for militants under the new security plan.

"This is a very positive step," said David Satterfield, who works for Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice as US coordinator for
Iraq.

"Only through facts on the ground, tangible evidence of action against all those pursuing violence, can the government of Iraq establish the credibility at home, abroad and here in the United States that it needs to chart a successful future," Satterfield told the Senate Foreign Relations committee.

Maliki said earlier that "all those who break the law will be hunted down," as Iraqi lawmakers gave their unanimous blessing to the plan drawn up by US and Iraqi security forces.

But the US plan, and the fact that it places the onus on Maliki and his government to tackle sectarian strife and stifle militias, has sparked extreme skepticism in the Democratic Party-controlled Congress.

Democrats, and some Republicans, have tabled a sheaf of resolutions in Congress opposing the plan, seen by some analysts as a last-ditch attempt to pacify Iraq. On Wednesday, the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution condemning the plan to send an extra 21,500 troops to the war-ravaged nation.

And in a sign of the stiff task facing US and Iraqi troops, insurgents earlier unleashed new bombings on busy market areas of Baghdad and in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah that left 10 people dead.

Bush said when he unveiled his new plan this month that he would ask Congress to provide an additional 1.2 billion dollars in economic and reconstruction aid for Iraq. The Iraqi government has pledged to add a further 10 billion dollars of its own funds.

The Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), however, asked the administration to ensure that the latest huge aid pledge would have more of an impact than previous US injections of funds into Iraq.

"I hope that we will hear today some concrete details of why these funds will achieve better results than we have been able to achieve before," Biden said.

The
Government Accountability Office (GAO), the official US auditor, reported earlier this month that botched budgeting left more than six billion dollars piled up in Iraq which should have been spent on rebuilding.

In one stunning example, Iraq's oil ministry had spent only four million dollars of the 3.6 billion dollars budgeted to repair the crumbling sector, the GAO said.

The Iraqi government's new security measures earlier even won the backing of MPs loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army has been targeted in a series of raids by Iraqi and US forces against militias blamed for the violence.

Under the new Iraqi-US plan, around 35,000 US troops and about 50,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen will be deployed to secure Baghdad.

US welcomes Iraqi PM's vow on militias - Yahoo! News

Voices of Iraq
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البرلمان-جلسة
Parliament-meeting
كتب: nakr2004 في يوم الخميس, 25 يناير, 2007 - 07:56 PM BT
Books : nakr2004 on Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:56 PM-BT
مصدر : البرلمان قرر عقد جلسة السبت لمناقشة ميزانية 2007
Source : Parliament decided to convene a meeting on Saturday to discuss the 2007 budget
من سانتا ميخائيل
From Santa Mikhail
بغداد-(أصوات العراق)
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
قال مدير المكتب الاعلامي لرئيس مجلس النواب اليوم الخميس ان رئيس المجلس محمود المشهداني قرر عقد جلسة للمجلس يوم السبت المقبل لاستكمال مناقشة موازنة عام 2007.
Director of Information Office of the President of the House of Representatives today, Thursday, the chairman of the Council, Mahmoud Almshahadani decided to convene a meeting of the Council next Saturday to complete the discussion of the budget 2007.وأضاف السيد مهند عبد الجبار في اتصال هاتفي مع وكالة أنباء (أصوات العراق) المستقلة أن" هناك مشروعا يدرس من قبل اللجنة القانونية للمجلس لعرضه في الدورة التشريعية الثالثة التي تبدا في اذار مارس ينص على استبدال قادة الكتل الذين لم يحضروا جلسات المجلس مطلقا."
He added Mr. Muhannad Abdul Jabbar in a telephone conversation with the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent that "there is a study by the Legal Committee of the Council for presentation at the third session of the legislature which begins in March provides for the replacement of leaders who did not attend the mass meetings of the Council at all."
Translated version of Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq
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Just IN case You Haven't all been informed the SHOUT BOX IS BACK!

Originally Posted by archangel

KRG Oil Deals to Go Through Baghdad


The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil said that potential oil deals and projects in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region must be forwarded to the parliament in Baghdad.

"Once drafts and proposals are submitted, they will be reviewed and discussed for approval at the parliament where representatives of the Kurdish list can offer their suggestions and comments regarding the proposed plans," said the Iraqi Minister of Oil.

"Oil revenues from across the country will be kept in a special treasury box to be handled by the central government for later distribution to the country's regions, depending on the size of the population in each region," added the Minister.

In a recent statement, Kurdish authorities said they had not been informed by the central government of the new legislation regarding oil revenues. Iraqi Kurdistan Region had earlier been given the authority to negotiate contracts and sign them, according to Kurdish officials.

KRG Oil Deals to Go Through Baghdad

Have you had anyone explain to you what the confusion or contradiciton is in this matter? It almost looks like a Laurel & Hardy skit like the one "'Who's on First?" Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Par77

Voices of Iraq
:
:
البرلمان-جلسة
Parliament-meeting
كتب: nakr2004 في يوم الخميس, 25 يناير, 2007 - 07:56 PM BT
Books : nakr2004 on Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:56 PM-BT
مصدر : البرلمان قرر عقد جلسة السبت لمناقشة ميزانية 2007
Source : Parliament decided to convene a meeting on Saturday to discuss the 2007 budget
من سانتا ميخائيل
From Santa Mikhail
بغداد-(أصوات العراق)
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
قال مدير المكتب الاعلامي لرئيس مجلس النواب اليوم الخميس ان رئيس المجلس محمود المشهداني قرر عقد جلسة للمجلس يوم السبت المقبل لاستكمال مناقشة موازنة عام 2007.
Director of Information Office of the President of the House of Representatives today, Thursday, the chairman of the Council, Mahmoud Almshahadani decided to convene a meeting of the Council next Saturday to complete the discussion of the budget 2007.وأضاف السيد مهند عبد الجبار في اتصال هاتفي مع وكالة أنباء (أصوات العراق) المستقلة أن" هناك مشروعا يدرس من قبل اللجنة القانونية للمجلس لعرضه في الدورة التشريعية الثالثة التي تبدا في اذار مارس ينص على استبدال قادة الكتل الذين لم يحضروا جلسات المجلس مطلقا."
He added Mr. Muhannad Abdul Jabbar in a telephone conversation with the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent that "there is a study by the Legal Committee of the Council for presentation at the third session of the legislature which begins in March provides for the replacement of leaders who did not attend the mass meetings of the Council at all."
Translated version of Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq
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I suppose next we'll see an article for legislature authorizing to be paid double time for this

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Originally Posted by PAn8tv

Have you had anyone explain to you what the confusion or contradiciton is in this matter? It almost looks like a Laurel & Hardy skit like the one "'Who's on First?" Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Actually, this seems to be a compromise. The central Iraq gov't can review the contracts already negotiated by the Kurds including allowing them into this review process, then give the thumbs up or down. The funds will be collected by the central gov't, then distributed to regions proportionally by population.

If the Kurds negotiated a good contract, there's no need for any change as long as the funds flow as stated above, so they won't necessarily have to start over from scratch with these. The Kurds have the opportunity to be involved in future contract negotiations, which is nice because they are the local experts regarding environmental and other local potential impacts of future contracts.

The Kurds also shouldn't balk on the distribution of funds, as this is the previously-agreed upon method for disbursement of funds from the central gov't.

Originally Posted by zipper

Actually, this seems to be a compromise. The central Iraq gov't can review the contracts already negotiated by the Kurds including allowing them into this review process, then give the thumbs up or down. The funds will be collected by the central gov't, then distributed to regions proportionally by population.

If the Kurds negotiated a good contract, there's no need for any change as long as the funds flow as stated above, so they won't necessarily have to start over from scratch with these. The Kurds have the opportunity to be involved in future contract negotiations, which is nice because they are the local experts regarding environmental and other local potential impacts of future contracts.

The Kurds also shouldn't balk on the distribution of funds, as this is the previously-agreed upon method for disbursement of funds from the central gov't.

Thanks for your imput and that was kind of my thought process in seeing this article. What I getting at are the articles coming out about the Kurds being in disagreement with the HCL being ready to go by saying there still hurdles to clear.

"who's on first " was performed by Abbott and Costello not Laurel and Hardy