Thread: Iraq/Dinar News to April 19, 2007 10PM CST

Number of banks 17 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1272 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ ----- -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 64.310.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) -----
Total offers for buying (US $) 64.310.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) ----- -----

Gooooooooooooooood Morning Rolclub

"The More They Take, The More We Make"
"Stay the Course, its the difference between Winners and whiners"
(Posted with permission from KBush1961)


8.25 Trillion taken out and still the Party has not started


1. "0" Dinar rate change today, it was 1272, it is now 1272

2. A (net) worth of dinars, IQD - 81,802,320,000 pulled out of circulation today 4/12/07.

3. 17 banks participating today

4. 121st auction since the beginning of CBI's reval plan

5. 194 days into the CBI's reval plan. (SIX MONTHS+)

6. 8,251,003,021,000 dinars pulled from circulation !!

7. "0" Dinars back into circulation today

8. 205 dinar change since Oct 1st (baseline was 1477) 13.879% increase in value of the dinar since beginning of reval plan (Approximatly Oct 1st).

9. 0 point reduction in the rate so far this week. Was at 1272 at the end of last week, 1272 so far this week.

10. 1 point drop in the month of April. Ended at 1273 in March, now stands at 1272
In January we saw a 2.49% drop in the rate.
In February we saw a .928% drop in the rate.
In March we saw a .546% drop in the rate.

Aware of the file that a number of MPs, the Iraqi had been killed and wounded as a result of the explosion, which targeted the parliament today, and among those killed Mohammed Awad, deputy of the Front dialogue.

وقدالسببThe spare telephone communications between the parliament and the prime minister, without knowing why

وقد صيبواThe Alandjvar shook the Iraqi parliament building on Thursday and dozens of people were injured

.The blast occurred inside the restaurant in the building as many members of Parliament had lunch. parliament was meeting on Thursday It is the parliament building in the Green Zone in Baghdad severe immunization. العديدة اتRarely able to infiltrate the hard-liners of the numerous checkpoints in order to launch attacks
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl...%26Itemid%3D48

Agreement with five rebel groups near - Talabani BAGHDAD, April 11 (KUNA) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Wednesday that the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq was unrealistic at the current stage, unveiling at the same time that an agreement with five armed rebel group was near.
Speaking at a news conference in Baghdad, Talabani said that the political council for national security has asked the government to submit a request to the UN to extend presence of foreign troops in Iraq until the Iraqi military forces can be able to shoulder such responsibilities by themselves.
He added that the deployment of foreign troops in Iraq came as requested by the government and the international community, however, the Iraqi government has the right to ask these forces to leave at any time it believes appropriate.
Talabani said that the US administrtaion has so many time asserted they would pull out of the country if asked to by the government.
The president reiterated that the calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq at the current stage was an unrealistic request, saying the foreign troops would remain in the country till conditions in the country are normalized.
On the other hand, he strongly criticized some demonstrators in the city of Najaf who celebrated the collapse of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein by burning the US flag, describing such act as "aimless".
The president also denounced the bombings that took place in teh city of Tel Afar that targeted the Turkmen, saying that the Turkmen people had gone through hardship during the defunct regime. (end) aha.tg KUNA 120052 Apr 07NNNN

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesP...48&Language=en

Was the CBI's announcement to continue the rate announced before or after the bombing?

Then look to see who was hurt, killed and in or scheduled to be eating at that time...Maybe? Or maybe just random but, if you investigate this point you might well be able to determine who, what this bombing is about...this must be an inside job -as this was very specific to remove someone (unless it was a message to all members that even in the secureist facility they can be got to - if this is true look to see some shifting by mps on specific issues in the coming days) this was not a randem car bomb...

Fred

Obviously - an inside job. This is sad...

The Al-Quaida or Al-Sadr want to make a point. " You are not secure ANYWHERE". Which should make Maliki go full force into finding & exterminating these guys.
God help Iraqis!

Maybe not either (the bombing may have been to specific target and the security is too good for either group to have done without insider...maybe MP level assistance) but if it were an localized, internal struggle within the parliment...within a certain political party what better way to distract attention or steer the investigation away from the actual cause. Again see who was scheduled to eat there at the specific time and you might find your actual target and discover the real motives...

Fred

Suicide bomber kills 3 MPs at Iraq parliament
By Dean Yates 26 minutes ago


A suicide bomber killed three Iraqi lawmakers and wounded dozens of other people while they were having lunch at a restaurant in the parliament building on Thursday, local media and officials said.
It was one of the worst security breaches inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003. Among the buildings in the Green Zone are parliament, government offices and the U.S. embassy.
Iraqiya state television said three lawmakers had been killed. Officials have named one as Mohammed Awadh, a member of the Accordance Front, the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament.
A security official confirmed Awadh had been killed and said another parliamentarian was missing and presumed dead. Two other lawmakers were critically wounded, the official said.
"We were having a meeting when suddenly we heard a huge blast inside the restaurant. I saw a lot MPs wounded and bleeding," said Fouad al-Massoum, leader of the Kurdish bloc.
He said security officials, fearing there might be a second explosion, ordered everyone out of the building.
The Iraqi security official said the bomber was wearing a belt packed with explosives.
Recently, the U.S. military said two suicide vests had been found inside the sprawling Green Zone, which is surrounded by checkpoints.
Earlier, a truck bomb killed at least seven people on a main bridge in northern Baghdad, destroying most of the steel structure and sending several cars plunging into the River Tigris below, police said.
The blasts come amid a U.S.-backed security crackdown in Baghdad that is regarded as a last-ditch attempt to halt Iraq's plunge into all-out sectarian civil war.
Militants have rarely managed to penetrate the various checkpoints and carry out attacks inside the Green Zone, although they frequently fire mortars and rockets into the area.
A Reuters witness said the blast took place at the cashier's register in the cafe, which is near parliament's main assembly hall. Parliament was in session on Thursday.
"I saw a ball of fire and heard a huge, loud explosion. There were pieces of flesh floating in the air," said the witness who was lightly wounded in the arm.
One of Iraq's vice presidents survived a bomb attack at a government ministry outside the Green Zone in February. A deputy prime minister was wounded last month in a suicide bomb attack at a prayer hall in his compound in the capital.
BRIDGE COLLAPSE
Two main sections of the Sarafiya bridge, a main artery linking east and west Baghdad, collapsed into the river after the truck bomb exploded just before the morning rush hour.
One army officer on the scene said explosive charges might have also been used to bring down a bridge that local residents said was built by the British in the early 1900s.

Among the dead were four policemen who drowned after their car toppled into the river's muddy waters, police said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown in the capital two months ago that has reduced death squad killings, but car and truck bombs still kill and wound scores.
The destruction of the bridge will cause major disruption in northern Baghdad. Two other bridges across the Tigris in that part of the capital are shut for security reasons while another is regarded by many residents as too dangerous to use.
"There is a conspiracy to isolate the two halves of Baghdad," parliament Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani, an outspoken Sunni politician, told lawmakers.
A dozen bridges cross the Tigris in Baghdad, linking the east and west of the city.
Since the bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine in the town of Samarra in February 2006, a wave of sectarian violence has reshaped the fabric of this once mixed city. Sunnis mainly live on the west side of the river and Shi'ites on the east.
Police said seven people had been killed in the bridge blast. They said up to 22 people were wounded. At least five cars had fallen into the river, including the police vehicle. (Additional reporting by Aseel Kami, Ahmed Rasheed, Yara Bayoumy, Ross Colvin and Aws al-Rubaie)




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Is anybody surprised by this statement on the arabic side of CBI but not English side.....because I was not surprised one bit. For a country who has been so unpredictable they sure nailed predictability at the CBI. At this point I feel sorry for the donor countries. They were gracious enough to forgive debt, give new loans, supply assistance and 1272 is the best Iraq can do....I hope everyone of the donor countries thinks long and hard before they sign any final debt forgiveness and should consider re-imposing the debt because at 1272 this provides no relief for the common Iraqi and who wants to work for 1272:1 pumping oil....I don't think Exxon CEOs want to do grunt work and surely not at 1272:1 in the contracts. Time for donor countries to get their share or reapply the debt. Time to step up to the plate Iraq... you are about to strike out! Oh and JMHO.

The Iraqi Central Bank announced the adoption of buying and selling rates for the dollar on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 until the end of office hours on Sunday, which falls on April 15, 2007.

Originally Posted by fredgwest1999

Maybe not either (the bombing may have been to specific target and the security is too good for either group to have done without insider...maybe MP level assistance) but if it were an localized, internal struggle within the parliment...within a certain political party what better way to distract attention or steer the investigation away from the actual cause. Again see who was scheduled to eat there at the specific time and you might find your actual target and discover the real motives...

Fred

..."The parliament speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, called for a special legislative session on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, as a show of defiance."...

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/12/2007 | Blast at Iraqi parliament kills 3 in Baghdad’s secure Green Zone

Originally Posted by bultn

Just this one:

The Iraqi Central Bank announced the adoption of buying and selling rates for the dollar on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 until the end of office hours on Sunday, which falls on April 15, 2007.

Yes. It is on there now. I am glad I went to sleep. HA HA..ugg