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

Mr. Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies to receive a telephone call from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United States of America :



تلقىد.Received Mr. Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies d. رايس .Mahmoud Almshahadani yesterday afternoon of Friday, April 13, 2007 a telephone call from the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. .She and Ms. Rice in contact its sincere condolences to the death of one of the deputies and wished the injured a speedy recovery and pointing at the same time bravely members of the Council and the will and tenacity. .Rice, and renewed her government's commitment to the success of the political process and to support projects of national reconciliation and the reconstruction of Iraq. وأكد د.Dr.. .Almshahadani to Ms. Rice that the people of Iraq during the long history to the many trials and challenges, but was able to overcome them and overcome them because our people are the ancient civilization
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The Disappearance of the Inaugural Talk of the Morning newspaper Sabah

Saturday 14 April 2007

Issued morning newspaper, funded by the state Saturday morning, which is free of the opening written by Editor in Chief Falah torch, and the column "talk the morning," which is written by former Editor-in-Chief columnist Mohammad Abdul Jabbar carp on page three a day.

No one knows yet the reasons for this to stop, but the file was learned that the pressure exerted on the management of the newspaper for an interview and halt the opening morning, for reasons not yet clear.

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economic structural reforms in the near future





لهاAttempts to make it Pmassav counterparts in the world that competes with it
الربيعيBaghdad Yasser incumbent Heidar spring
المنافسةBanking expert, Mr. Abdul Azim Yasiri, general director of Rafidain Bank : that the banking sector reforms soon witness a big backbone banks and the introduction of the electronic destruction and the capability to enable it to compete




مع .With the expected arrival of foreign banks to Iraq in future.
.This came in response to "Assabah" to a question about the performance of the banking sector in comparison with experienced international banks and said : His performance without the required level, pointing out that the former conditions experienced by Iraq affected the general economic situation and the banking sector as a cornerstone of the economics of the country, those circumstances stratified between him and technological developments. .He explained : that the reforms aimed at the banking sector will take up the restructuring of government banks and the introduction of the electronic destruction and the preparation and organization of new banking instructions and reconsider the powers of officials to keep abreast of developments bankers, which will be collected at the restructuring of banks.
وبين:And : that there is a tendency for the establishment of training centers, especially banks, as well as training outside the country, and the preparation of studies to evaluate the annual performance of the banks that deal with the negative and using research centers and professors specialized efficiency standards and performance of the banking sector, he said : The upgrade services provided by banks to their customers depends on the criteria and basic elements can be summarized in a simplified as follows :
1- .1-introducing modern techniques : that our banks are still in isolation from developments in the world in the field of modern technology because of wars and economic blockade that dominated the economic and financial conditions in the country for many years, and banks need to be a period for quite some time to keep up with these developments, which have already begun to apply recently, and the introduction of modern technologies is in the forefront standards.
2- تنمية.2-Human resources development : assuming that this element banks of great importance, especially at the present time because it represents a long-term human leads in the end to raise the level of performance and thereby improve service banking as a staff member on the culture of banking trainee qualifies for the exercise of all banking business efficiently and effectively, and improve the performance of staff depends on the numbers and programs also important performance criteria.
3- الانتشار .3-geographical spread : that this criterion usually relies on the expansion of the opening of branches and offices Sairveh for the purpose of delivering services to all areas of the bank and provide an opportunity for citizens to take advantage of those services without hardship, and that the most important criteria are the speed and accuracy in the completion of work.
4- إن.4 - The rise in net profit and rapid delivery performance indicators are positive.
.And on the question about the ability of the banking sector to compete with foreign banks with the start of deportees reconstruction, Yasiri confirmed that the former conditions experienced by the country has affected the general economic situation, including the banking sector, a cornerstone of the economics of the country, those exceptional circumstances stratified between him and technological developments witnessed by the outside world, and where that efforts are continuing to modernize and develop banking systems adopted modern technology and the introduction of all kinds in addition to the bank in connection with the implementation of sophisticated banking system and holistic includes linking all its branches with new techniques, we are fully confident that the bank will be able with God's help to compete with banks foreign open subsidiaries in Iraq in the future, especially as the presence of foreign banks in the country, not the new issue since the Rafidain Bank began its work in 1941 at the time of the later, where a large network of branches of foreign banks, such as the British Bank of the Middle East and the Orient Bank and Bank of Intra, ... etc. However, the bank was able to exercise its first commercial bank Iraqi If the Iraqi banks to introduce totalitarian regimes in the restructuring of their computers and, as we have already said they can compete, but the gap considerably.
.Yasiri also said : The role of the banking sector in economic development lies in its ability to mobilize savings and investment in various sectors of the economy and to the expansion of the monetary and credit promissory Bjelah credit broad, holistic and that the trend towards long-term funding of projects to serve the economic development and investment in large projects, agricultural, industrial and commercial and get through that the financial returns and continued investment in this area is one of the most important factors in the development of the stock market in which to increase corporate productivity inject equity securities and negotiable and that the bank is the exercising of which all economic actors.
وعن .Support mechanism and economic sectors in the area of soft loans, he pointed out that the bank continues to grant loans to the various economic sectors in the country under the existing instructions, which are still valid, there is a tendency to support small enterprises on a large scale grant soft loans, as well as support contractors for the project through under construction.
وعنر.The Central Bank and procedures in dealing with inflation Yasiri finds that the Central Bank of Iraq has succeeded in improving the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar but the price of goods and services were still on the rise will impact on the cost of production and thereby increase prices.
وتطرق.Turning to the process control interest rates, explaining that they become vested in the same bank since 2004 after it was identified confined to the CBE board of directors, and is currently banks as interest rates and economic conditions and in accordance with the requirements of the work is obvious that raising the interest rate will narrow the performance of lending because the borrowers are usually resort to loans lying descent.
واشر .Asher Yasiri, a sometimes intersections between fiscal and monetary policy when using fiscal policy to accelerate the development process by pumping money in a hasty and contributing to a rise in prices and hence inflation, pointing out that monetary policy aimed at maintaining price stability and the reduction of inflation.
في .Regarding the latest on the evaluation and support for the lifting of oil derivatives, said Yasiri : There is a saying that the health of the sale, at prices lower than the value of purchase and this is what is happening for oil products but that the situation in Iraq and circumstances warrant support of derivatives, and most importantly, the House provided.
.On the new budget emphasized that the general budget for the current year 2007, which was ratified by the parliament will open up the investment plans of the ministries and government departments all, especially as the Iraqi economy suffers from the long years of decline in productive activities, because the circumstances that have caused the economy to the country due to suspension of consumer activity production in all areas, but at the same time, the matter requires urgent action, as is happening to the security plan for Baghdad to provide security and stability to the country since the implementation of major economic enterprises can not be done without the contribution of professionals, traders, contractors and other workers in the private sector and provide the required security and protection of their hands terrorists and those with weak who want the country's destruction and devastation aimed at disrupting the march of progress and development and reconstruction economy correlated with the security and vice versa.

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The Iraqi ambassador to Washington, warns of "catastrophe" in the event of the withdrawal of American forces

Political Affairs 14 / 04 / 2007

The Iraqi ambassador to Washington, warns of "catastrophe" in the event of the withdrawal of American forces, Washington 14 4 (KUNA) -- warned the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida'ie of the "disaster" in Iraq if the American forces withdrew from it.

Sumaida'ie said in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies last night that "Iraq has been embroiling the general public in the status quo by the intervention of the United States in which the Iraqis feel grateful to him only that the withdrawal of the American forces would lead to a disaster for the fledgling democracy."

He stressed the need for efforts to ensure that "the fall of Iraq," adding that the progress made by Iraq in the direction of democracy and stability is not just a "battle waged Iraqis at home, but a confrontation between the forces beyond Iraq."

The Sumaida'ie to the government to adopt plans to launch projects under its auspices over Iraq to revive the labor market in the country, with the allocation of 10 billion dollars to finance the projects directed towards young people.

He said that "many of these young people to join gangs, political or criminal violence because of the lack of job opportunities and we want to find other options for them."

Regarding the Sharm El-Sheikh conference to be held in May 4 next Sumaida'ie said that the conference would be an opportunity for the major powers to talk to their integrity in the region and expressed his hope that this would result in the debate on assistance in dealing with confrontations between the various parties in Iraq.

Sumaida'ie statements came at a time when the Democratic Party is in control of the two houses of Congress strong pressure on President Bush to develop a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, which President Bush rejected the grounds that it would adversely affect the security of the United States.

It is scheduled to attend the conference of Iraq's neighbors except Iran, which announced its intention failure to attend, as well as the five permanent members of the Security Council and representatives of international and regional organizations. Reliable and Iraqis and Americans on the conference to mobilize international support to the Iraqi government and to help improve the Iraqi economy and the establishment of peace and security in the country.

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Alalosi : the bombing of the House of Representatives did not have sectarian dimensions

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
Member of the House of Representatives example Alalosi today, Saturday, that the targeting of Iraqi parliamentarians the day before yesterday, Thursday, was a clear message to all the states that the "terrorism" did not exclude one of the Iraqis no matter what the position or religious or national affiliation or his political and intellectual.

He added Alalosi News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, "The explosion which killed three of the deputies inside the parliament building, it was in fact targeted to the will of the Iraqi people themselves, and that the goal of the terrorists wanted to achieve through the process, turned against its own expectations and intentions."

He explained that "the explosion increased the cohesion of the political forces represented in Parliament and aggravated the insistence on the reduction of terrorism and to hold accountable the supporters and promoters of this bloody business." He pointed out that Alalosi cohesion seemed clear to the members of parliament and the security forces stationed in the place, contrary to what some promoted by the media, which he described as "suspicious". He continued, "that such incidents were not excluded in the light of security violations, which, as everyone knows, the causes and background, but it will not stop the Iraqi experiment in building a state of institutions and takes the talk in Parliament legislation constitutional laws and regulations."

Regarding the possibility that the suicide bomber and one of the elements of the protection of official killed in the blast, said Alalosi that all possibilities are open, but he ruled out that the process of post-sectarian, because there at the scene were from various segments of the Iraqi people in the area to Aga charge to any party, and everyone, without exception, the targeted in the bombing. He added : "The investigations are now under way soon will reveal all the secret details of the incident.

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On Saturday, April 14, 2007
Throughout the meeting to the House tomorrow, Sunday
From the hushed Abdulamir

Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
Announced by the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Mahmoud Almshahadani throughout the meeting today, Saturday, to tomorrow, Sunday, in the wake of the vote approving the amendment of the disbanded coalition authority No. 10 of 2004 on retirement.

The Council postponed the first reading of the law on the confiscation and seizure of movable and immovable property of the elements of the former regime because of the objection to the law of the Ba `ath party, which felt that it was the purview of the Committee on uprooting the Baath.
The Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Almshahadani deputies asked at the beginning of the meeting to unite to save Iraq.

Almshahadani said, "We have lost a martyr (Abu Waddah), but we do not want to lose Iraq, which is the biggest thing, and I invite you to unite because Iraq is suffering from south to north."

The parliament has been subjected to the bombing Thursday killed one member Mohamed Awadh and twenty other members of staff.

The MP Bahaa Al-Araji, the United Iraqi Alliance list, responsible for the explosion on the presidency of the parliament, calling for the extradition of the security dossier to Parliament for lumps Alberlmaineh by size.

Al-Araji said during the meeting, "We will hold the presidency of parliament responsible for the explosion that happened because we handed the security file."

He added that the introduction of the restaurant in the parliament was one of the reasons for the breach, and said "we do not have full confidence Baidkm surrender our souls."
He continued, Al-Araji "We demand the extradition of the security file, however, blocks Alberlmaineh resolving size."

For his part, the Almshahadani in response to accusations of Al-Araji responsibility of the presidency of the parliament on the bombing incident, saying, "The presidency of the Parliament is responsible for the bombing, and you also responsible for the breach of security you have helped, because I was every day receives complaints against members of Parliament refuse inspections and ignore them. "

He added "there are new security procedures will be followed and will be discussed in closed session."

The entrances and the Conference Palace and the Parliament today, Saturday, strict security procedures differ from the previous one after the bombing incident.

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Rut-Roh...Sounds like someone is in trouble!

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Originally Posted by PAn8tv

Iraq MPs attempt show of defiance after attack

Staff and agencies
Friday April 13, 2007

Guardian Unlimited

Iraq's parliament today held a special session intended to show defiance and solidarity following the bomb attack yesterday that killed at least one MP.
During the session the deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, confirmed the government ""had received indications that this building would be targeted."

Before yesterday's attack, the most audacious to date within the heavily fortified Green Zone, security guards took the unusual precaution of using sniffer dogs to search inside the parliament building. No details of how or when the information came about were given.

The parliamentary session had been scheduled to begin at 11am local time but began nearly 90 minutes late - apparently because of low turnout and increased security measures. Many politicians were unable to reach the parliament building because of a weekly driving ban.

Live television pictures showed a number of empty seats in the special parliamentary session. MPs rarely meet on Fridays, the day of rest and prayers. "Very few parliament members showed up because of the curfew," said Mohammed Abu Bakr, head of the parliament's media office. "Also the MPs' turnout is very low today because most of them are visiting those who were wounded by the blast," he said.

The parliament's speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, opened the emergency session by asking members to recite verses from the Qur'an to mourn the death of a "hero, the parliament member Mohammed Awad".

Mr Awad, a Sunni, was a member of the moderate National Dialogue Front. There were differing reports of a second fatality, said to be Taha al-Liheibi, a fellow Sunni and a key go-between in government efforts to negotiate with insurgents. Iraqi officials listed him among the dead but the US military revised down its death toll from eight to one.

The meeting was "a clear message to all the terrorists and all those who dare try to stop this [political] process, that we will sacrifice in order for it to continue," Mr al-Mashhadani said.

"We feel today that we are stronger that yesterday," he said. "The parliament, government and the people are all the same - they are all in the same ship which, if it sinks, will make everyone sink."
The vice-president, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, insisted the terrorists could not win.

"The more they [terrorists] act, the more solid we become. When they take from us one martyr, we will offer more martyrs," he said. "The more they target our unity, the stronger our unity becomes."
State-run Iraqiya television's transmission was draped in a black mourning banner today. Regular programming aired, but the screen had a black stripe across the upper left hand corner.

Several TV channels replayed images of the moment of the attack and the minutes following: a flash and an orange ball of fire causing Jalaluddin al-Saghir, a startled parliament member who was being interviewed, to duck. Smoke and dust billowed through the area, and confused and frightened lawmakers and others could be heard screaming for help. Mr al-Saghir escaped injury.

Amid confusion over who was behind the attack some reports suggested the bomber had been a bodyguard for an unnamed Sunni MP.

A police source said parts of an explosive vest had been discovered among the debris. Other speculation was that a worker in the café where the bomb exploded could have smuggled explosives into the building in lunch boxes.

US and Iraqi officials are investigating how the bomber evaded a ring of security checks and launched the attack despite a two-month-old security surge in Baghdad which has seen around 100,000 allied soldiers patrolling the streets.


WOW! If this guy is speaking for the parliment as a whole, this is encouraging. If he is sincere I think this is a good indication that they know what is at stake. It may just be lip service, but I doubt it when he mentions about making themselves all martyrs to get the job done. I just wonder if Vince Lombardi was standing over his shoulder when he was talking?

no, it was me coz he took my boat analogy.

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Iraq calls for help against Iran’s ‘dangerous’ influence
Web posted at: 4/13/2007 9:38:3
Source ::: AFP
washington •

An Iraqi government spokesman on Wednesday called on Iraq’s Arab neighbours to help curb Iran’s “dangerous” influence in his country and for the United States to reach an “understanding” with Tehran.

“We are sharing responsibility with the Arabs. We have to work together in order to limit the Iranian influence in Iraq,” the representative Ali Al Dabbagh told reporters during a visit here.

“It is not only (an) Iraqi responsibility, it is a regional responsibility, he said. “We are urging the United States and Iran to have certain arrangements and understanding. We understand that the influence of Iran is dangerous for us now.”

Washington accuses Iran, a non-Arab and predominantly Shiite Muslim nation, of supporting insurgents fighting US forces in Iraq.

Four years on from the US-led invasion which toppled the late dictator Saddam Hussein, sectarian violence is ravaging Iraq, killing hundreds of people each week.

Several of Iraq’s neighbours including Iran, as well as other world powers, are due to meet in Egypt on May 3-4 for a major conference on the war-torn country.

Al Dabbagh said he hoped the conference would be a step towards stabilising the country.

“Iraqi-Arab relations will be improved and upgraded when the Arab states will show a real ... effort to support the majority of Iraqis and having a federal, democratic, stable state,” he said.

The United States has begun sending a “surge” of nearly 30,000 extra troops to Iraq to help secure the capital Baghdad and parts of Al Anbar province.

Al Dabbagh expressed a wish for US forces to be able to withdraw soon from Iraq, but acknowledged that “the premature withdrawal of the American troops will create a vacuum” for other powers in the country.

“Iran is not only the danger, Al-Qaeda as well is the danger,” he said. The Al Qaeda network is believed to be behind deadly suicide bombings in Iraq.

Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain will attend the May conference, plus Turkey, the European Union, the Arab League, the United Nations and the G8 group of rich nations.

“It’s the right time now to look to the relations with Iraq beyond the ideological, sectarian or ethnic vision which prevents the Kurds and the Shiites from integrating in the region,” Al Dabbagh said.

ITS ABOUT TIME!!!

UAE firms eye mega projects in N Iraq area 04/14/2007
ERBIL, Iraq: Several companies from the UAE, including giant property developer Emaar Properties, are looking at investing billions of dollars in energy, infrastructure and property projects in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Kurdish Trade Minister Muhammed Rauf said on Thursday.
Four groups each with around 25 UAE companies are scheduled to visit the Kurdish region starting at the end of April and progressing over the next two months to get a closer look at investment opportunities in the fast-growing area, Rauf told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview in the regional capital of Erbil.
“Emaar is one of the companies coming. We’ve had good discussions with them about (building) apartments, hotels and other properties. They will come and evaluate what we are offering,” Rauf said.
“These companies have a lot of money and I know they are prepared to use it,” he said.
Rauf said his confidence about the investment prospects of UAE companies in Kurdish projects was based on discussions he had with several UAE companies during a big investment conference last month in Dubai.
Dubai-based Emaar, the biggest Arab property developer by market value, doesn’t have operations in Iraq, a company official said.
The Kurdish region has become a magnet for foreign investment over the past three years, particularly in the oil and construction sectors, on a foundation of a relatively secure environment and plentiful and attractive investment opportunities. The Kurdish region’s top trade partners are neighbouring Turkey and Iran.
Since two separate suicide attacks in 2004, the Kurdish region, cocooned by strong protections from the Kurdish military, security and intelligence services, has been free of the kind of insurgents attacks that happen almost daily elsewhere in Iraq.
More than $15bn has been plowed into the region by foreign companies over the past couple of years. The Kurdish-governed region, with around 5mn mostly Kurds, consist of the provinces of Erbil,, Suleimania and Duhok.
The region has enjoyed de facto independence since 1991 when the US military created a no-fly zone over the area to prevent attacks by Saddam Hussain’s forces.
The powers of the Kurdish Regional Government have widened considerably since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the 2005 passage of Iraq’s post-war constitution, which bases Iraq’s political configuration on a federalist system that gives the country’s regions vastly more control over their own affairs relative to the days of Saddam’s rule.
Rauf also said the Kurdish government was in discussions with foreign banks and consultants about the creation of a Kurdish Stock Exchange. “We have been taking steps toward this and we hope over the next year or two to have this established.”
Nearly all Kurds favour formal independence but the KRG has resisted those calls not to provoke neighbouring Turkey, Iran and Syria, all of whom have big Kurdish populations which, those nations fear, would rise up and try to break away to join an independent Kurdish state. – Dow Jones Newswires

Ministry plan to create ‘3 million’ jobs

By Ali shatab

Azzaman, April 14, 2007

The Ministry of Agriculture has unveiled a three-year development plan under which it hopes to create ‘three million jobs’.


Agriculture Minister Nadhem al-Abadi said most of the new jobs will be created in the southern and central parts of the country.

Iraq is endowed with fertile land and two of the world’s largest rivers which bisect the country from north to south.

Nonetheless, it now has to import most of its food needs. The country’s food import bill is estimated at nearly $5 billion a year.

But Abadi said, “We hope the new plan will boost agricultural produce, particularly of main crops and to be able to meet 21 per cent of the country’s food needs.”

New technologies will be introduced and the use of fertilizers and pesticides to be expanded, he said.

Abadi said the ministry’s teams and technician were even engaged in providing their services in ‘restive areas’ where three million animals have been vaccinated.