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

Deputies identified the suicide bomber Thursday

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Baghdad / commoners hailed
The spokesman of the Ministry of strife yesterday, Saturday, that a number of members of parliament know the suicide bomber, who blew himself up in the cafeteria last Thursday, killing at least two people and wounding dozens, in the time in which it stressed the internal security procedures after receipt of the responsibility to protect the Parliament building officially.
This comes with the security forces to find the head of the suicide bomber scalp and leg inside the cafeteria where the crash sight glass, doors, and the spread of blood on the walls. He said the official spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Abdel-Karim Khalaf at a press conference building the ministry, said that a number of deputies who were at the scene of the accident to identify the suicide bomber, but he did not reveal the relationship to one of the members of Parliament and the chaperones said that the details will be announced if the completion of the investigations undertaken by the Under Secretary for Information and National Investigation Major General Hussein Kamal.

His successor : The Ministry of the Interior took over the security functions and a mechanism of action from the day yesterday, Saturday, to protect the parliament building, and those changes come to coincide with the administrative and technical procedures, pointing out that the work of the Interior Ministry would carry the check identities and criminal records of employees in the building and works with members of the House.
The entrances and the Conference Palace and the Parliament yesterday, Saturday, strict security procedures differ from the previous one after the bombing incident, where one of the members of the Iraqi army searched entering the premises of the Palais des Congrès, from the first point, contrary to what typically, where no such point exists, then followed other points where inspections accurately for both sexes through the machine to detect explosives, and develop other joint checkpoint near the entrance to the parliament members the same precision and checking identities With prevent photographers from taking photos.
The President of the Parliament Mahmoud Almshahadani at yesterday's session of the House to unite to save Iraq, and said, "We have lost a martyr (Abu Waddah), but we do not want to lose Iraq, which is the biggest thing, I invite you to unite because Iraq is suffering from south to north."
And on the same level, the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies received a telephone call from the American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, which expressed its deepest condolences to the victims of the bombing and pointing at the same time members of the courage and strength of the bonds.
The Parliament voted to approve the amendment to a number of laws of the disbanded coalition authority No. 10 of 2004 on retirement with 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 jurisdiction of the Ba` ath party.
And the House has issued a statement yesterday on the number of martyrs and protections building, in which he pointed out that "the terrorist incident resulted in the death of deputy Iraqi front for national dialogue Mohamed Awad, a number of deputies majority of them slightly," pointing out that "the Council since its formation in the April 22, 2006 did not sign any contracts with any company security for the protection of building the Palais des Congrès, but extends invitations to sign a contract with them but it is not. "
The transfer of the body of MP Mohamed Awad Baghdad airport to his birthplace in Tikrit yesterday, Saturday, by an Iraqi F-C130 According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Defense, who added that the minister, Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem the funeral of martyr on behalf of the Prime Minister, who arrived earlier yesterday to Baghdad after a tour that included Japan and Korea.
Meanwhile, the organization of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq" claimed responsibility for a suicide attack which targeted the parliament building in the Green Zone, and included statements provide two identical is not any contradiction between them, but that their appearance is separate Astphamat to observers, this could indicate the fact that the armed group is not organized and they entered other times of the division, and this demonstrated the contradictory statements and the fighting between the armed groups, especially in areas west of Baghdad.

Long Iraqi

Newspaper : Syria Iranian plan for governing Iraq
(Voice of Iraq) - 14-04-2007 shall Sotaliraq.com - ÕæÊ ÇáÚÑÇÞ

The Spanish newspaper El Paso said that Iran and Syria completed plans for governing Iraq and placed under guardianship and complete manner No doubt that Iraq was governed by these two countries.
The paper says that the strategic plan for the rule of Iraq and their countries before the fall of the Saddam regime, and worked hard to implement stages after falling to this day.
The plan also says the paper is that the coalition ruling Iraq Shiite parties loyal to Iran, and these parties Sadri trend established by Iran before the fall of Saddam, was in Qom by Ayatollah condemned as a religious leader and the forces of Jerusalem and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, his men trained in Iraq and Iran and Lebanon and Ironically, the newspaper also says that Iran requested the Sadri trend leaders deny due in Iran to remove suspicion.
Among the strategic plan for governing Iraq is the creation of the Iraqi Baath Party to the Syrian wing will be ready, in cooperation with the Sadri trend and Shiite and Sunni parties associated with both Syria and Iran to take power in Iraq after the American withdrawal.
The paper says that the terrible massacres that took place in Iraq was Msel by Al Qaeda and the Sunni extremist organizations financing and training and facilitate the Iranian, Syrian and that it is impossible that Al-Qaeda can implement a large number of operations Silveian and without very great potential incubators Iranian-Syrian, and added that the first thing to do , who has been in power in Iraq after the American withdrawal in their number one is the elimination of Al Qaeda and its associated organizations with him to give the impression that concluded Iraq from terrorism is the new system, which will be held by Syria and Iran in Iraq.
On the nature of the new ruling newspaper said that the system will be Ba'athist Mwali to Syria and Iran, with the flavor of the Sunni predators has been chosen as key government leaders from Anbar, Mosul, Tikrit and the leadership of the Shiite Moqtada Sadr trend, which tells the newspaper promised when he signed his visit to Syria, that he will support the party sent in Iraq if the Syrian and orientations as Iranian-Syrian agreement.
Still in the other Shiite parties newspaper said that Iran will withdraw the rug from under the feet and the defamation them on the grounds that they cooperated with the American occupation.

The Presidium of the House of Representatives : Article 140 has a fair solution
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The Presidium of the House of Representatives : article "140" and placed a fair solution to the issue of Kirkuk


Union : The House of Representatives held its fifth session and the normal legislative year's first legislative yesterday, Saturday, the second day. The Board approved the proposal at its yesterday Amendment Act was disbanded coalition authority No. (63) of the 2004 Act where the proposal of three articles came in the reasons for it "for the purpose of determining the retirement pay and employee benefit subject to the provisions of Ordinance No. (63) of 2004 or the dependents of disability compensation and salary retirement, "which is scheduled to be the first reading of the draft law on the confiscation and seizure of movable and immovable property belonging to the former Iraqi regime but opposed by some members of the House of Representatives made the chairman of the Council, Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani raise this issue from the agenda. this and the Council resumes its sessions today, Sunday,.

On the other hand, the Presidium of the House of Representatives issued a statement on the Iraqi threat to Turkey to intervene in matters which are exclusively the internal affairs of Iraq and the text of the statement :
There have been many recent statements by the Turkish leadership that threaten to intervene in matters which are exclusively the internal affairs of Iraq and in particular the issue of Kirkuk, which placed Article (140) of the Iraqi Constitution, the Permanent just solution to it. Those threats, and before the conference, which was held in Turkey on a purely Iraqi matters were in clear violation of Iraq's sovereignty and a violation of the principles of the United Nations and international public law on non-interference and mutual respect among nations, we on behalf of the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies Iraqi declare our total rejection of such threats, and we call on the Turkish government to adopt language dialogue and understanding and respect for human good-neighborliness between the two neighboring countries especially Muslims and the interests of a joint strategy between the two countries instead of the language of threats which are not in the interest of both parties. On another matter, the House issued a statement of clarification to the media about the terrorist bombing attack on him last Thursday, said : addressed the media after the terrorist bombing of a building long the House of Representatives last Thursday inaccuracies in the transfer of information on the number of victims of the terrorist bombing and the protection of the building was announced by the Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani in a (challenge) that the terrorist incident resulted in the martyrdom of deputy Iraqi front for national dialogue Mohamed Awad, and the number of wounded, most of them slightly. The statement referred to the parliament since its establishment in Iraq April 22, 2006 did not sign any contracts with any security company to protect the premises, the Conference Palace, but extends invitations to the security of the companies contracted but not this matter and the protection of the Council so far under the auspices of the Iraqi security forces. The Council requested the means all the information for accuracy in the transfer of information.

Former oil minister calls on foreign companies to invest in fields
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Former oil minister calls on foreign companies to invest in the fields of Nasiriyah

Nasiriyah News Network / Mortada Hamid :

The Union of businessmen of Dhi Qar, a symposium to discuss a draft law on oil, gas and the presence of the former Minister of Oil Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uloom

And a number of officials and spe******ts in addition Algel oil University President Dhi Qar and a number of university professors, have opened the seminar, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Wahid President Businessmen Union speech in which the Russian role in the discussion of a lot of issues which aims to raise the general level of the country and especially Nasiriyah, and then were quick reading of the draft law by Mr. Iyad Ekeli, then gave Dr. Ibrahim Bahr science lecture addressed the importance of the ongoing political process in Iraq and that there are special efforts to be promoted by the cities in the south, because of its importance and stressed the supervisory role of the masses in the Accounting officials and stressed the importance of such a law, in addition to the draft that bear great positives, as well as the negative and explained the importance of economic reforms must be given the large role the private sector in the economic process it is a principle of economic reform .. During the meeting with a network news Nasiriyah on the importance of this law in the economic reality of the city of Nasiriyah explained Sea Sciences (imagine that this symposia will create a positive environment for the understanding of the paragraphs of the law and also seek to create an atmosphere of the proposals will drive the economy in these governorates of Iraq oppressed and Nasiriyah Governorate possesses 5% of Iraq's proven reserves and also represented three major fields field Nasiriyah, Gharraf, Rafidain and also there are fewer than 12 of them in the area of exploration within the province, including a joint between them and the neighboring governorates to the kind of imagine that the first basic issue that can be achieved is to invite the South Oil Company to begin the process of developing the field of Nasiriyah and the escalation of intensifying its production plan She was there and agreed with the Director of Southern Petroleum in 2005 to pay intensifying production in the field of Nasiriyah as a first stage to escalate to 50 thousand barrels per day, I expect during the two possible that the oil from the south, including the number and qualifications of cadres oil oil and its cadres in Nasiriyah that contribute to creating a climate of the work program through which the lifting production in this field and also hope to be in this province Institute to develop cadres of oil like other governorates therefore call on the Ministry of Oil to consider seriously the establishment of the Institute of oil in Nasiriyah also so I believe that the escalation of production will contribute to the preservation of conservation to become in the federal oil and gas in a short period of time, the maintenance of producing and represented in the federal owns production ceiling of the equivalent of 100 thousand barrels per day and over and the possibility that it can get in Nasiriyah in the period of time if short-pressed citizens in the maintenance of the South Oil Company and the Ministry to begin development of this field and also there is a great potential future cooperation between the South Oil Company and other international companies and I am convinced that if this law was approved after amending some of the paragraphs was in the interest of the people Iraqi will leap in quality and will be able to absorb unemployment in Iraq, in particular would benefit from Dhi Qar) and the Sea of Sciences call for Arab and foreign companies (I have invited companies and met with many European and Japanese companies to contribute to the establishment of a large investment in refinery capacity Nasiriyah 300 thousand barrels per day and there positive response and spoke with more than European and Japanese companies from the need to utilize this opportunity and especially of this province, but all waiting for legislation to protect the legal sector investments).
And then met with the network on behalf of the President of the Federation Spokesman businessmen Dhi Qar Abdel consent to explain the importance of these seminars (the importance of these seminars derived from the importance of the draft law to be discussed is the importance of attendance records as of this morning is a spe******t and expert on oil and oil minister earlier this law take people and the effects of much of the controversy on the level of the press and at the grass-roots level here and we want to raise questions that took place in the mind to be clarified to the public and the importance of this law, which constitutes a true leap function of the level of present and the future of Iraq)
The Engineer Alaa Hassan Chairman of the Energy Committee in the Dhi Qar News Network Nasiriyah on the importance of the law (the fact that the law contains many of the pros as in the rest of the other laws, in addition to the negative and weaknesses and the positive points that it is the fact that many policy under which the country that era is the comprehensive outlook of the economy and thus the oil boycott on all oil resources, which led to where we are now weak oil production as well as the weakness in manufacturing oil latter Act carries a high bush is a positive move and investment and strengthen the production and restructuring of the National Oil Company axis, which is the basis of this law since the re-establishment of the National Oil Company would make a substantial contribution in raising the oil production capacity of oil and therefore there will be a high economic and thus will Iraq with a high income and therefore will be in addition to the economy that Iraq contains a very large reserve contribution of the company oil in the use of this reserve force increase production and thereby increase the economy, at the oil company exploration and extraction of oil will OWNING a service to the citizen but there weaknesses in the law is the issue of the coalition of companies and similar companies are investing coalition and the fact there do not want to reject the investment issue, but Investment oil at the present time has a new burden on the Iraqi economy, where use of Iraqi cadres and capacities fact the largest companies to take advantage of the coalition that "Israel is the main profit at the expense of the Iraqi citizens and true that investment if the wave guide is true to the laws and impose high tax laws strong could be, but not at this stage but in the humor coming after our development and utilization).

Turkey to increase trade with Iraq to $3.5b MENAFN - 15/04/2007</B>[-] Text [+]
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The Turkish minister, who was addressing a press conference, also stated that strengthening economic ties with Iraq is among the Turkish government's top priorities.

It is worth mentioning that The Head of the Iraqi Commerce Ministry Department of Affairs said that the relations between Turkey and Iraq will not be effected by political statements made by some Kurdish leaders.

Wciapetta, thank you for the article.

Iraqi PM views security conditions, militias, US attitude, Iran
15 April 2007 (BBC Monitoring)

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Dubai Al-Arabiya Television in Arabic, independent television station financed by Arab businessmen, at 2006 gmt on 13 April Carries a new edition of its "Frankly Speaking" political talk show featuring a 50-minute interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by Elie Nakuzi in Baghdad; date of the interview is not specified.
Nakuzi begins by asking Al-Maliki what the anniversary of the fall of the regime in Baghdad means to him. Al-Maliki first thanks Nakuzi for coming to Baghdad for this interview, and notes that everything has a price and getting rid of "dictatorship" also has a price. He says: "The 9th of April is not an ordinary event. It constitutes a great divide between two phases: the phase of dictatorship, violence, chemical weapons, mass graves, Isolation of Iraq, loss of freedoms, and loss of democracy; the phase where people had have no choice; and another phase where we have political and media freedom, and where we have democracy, elections, and constitution." He says that the Iraqis will face these many challenges, "which we consider to be a natural price that we are prepared to pay."
He says that what happened in Iraq was not based on the wishes of the Iraqis, noting that "although we wanted to get rid of that dark phase, we never wanted Iraq to experience the entry of foreign forces and occupation." He says: "Had Saddam and the Ba'th Party responded to the appeals of the politicians and the opposition, and had we entered into a political understanding and implemented the will of the Iraqi people, we would not even have needed the process of bringing down the regime." He adds: "Regrettably, other states believed the lies of Saddam and the Ba'th Party and they took sides with him at the expense of the Iraqi people's will. Thus, much blood was spilled. He lied to them by saying that he was protecting the eastern flank [of the Arab nation], and that had it not been for Saddam and his army, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the entire Arab nation would have been vanquished."
He says the Iraqi people never asked for international forces but the former regime constituted "a threat to international peace." He says no Iraqi would accept the presence of international forces on his soil "because this contravenes the principle of patriotism." Asked if he is one such Iraqi, he says: "Yes I am one of them and I would not approve of anyone saying that he agrees to have international forces on our soil for ever. These forces came and were covered by an international decision, and then the situation in Iraq required the backing of these international forces." He says the presence of these forces is "governed by a certain system and by certain mechanisms and agreements" with the United Nations, and the international forces have agreed to these mechanisms and agreements.
Al-Maliki says: "Now that we have covered this phase, when we see that our forces are built, and that we are prepared to take full responsibility for the security issue, then we will ask the international forces to leave the country. This is our legal right. We are telling others: Come and let us establish security and wipe out the creators of these sectarian confusions - Al-Qa'idah, and the remnants of the previous regime - and reaffirm security in order to tell the international forces: You may go."
Asked to comment on the claims that his government carries out the desire of the Americans, that the Americans are doing what they want, and that the Iraqi state is not ruling "in the full sense of the word," he says that the Iraqi government is free in its actions, noting that in certain cases the government appears to some to be "giving concessions" to others, but "in fact this not concession but is an agreement imposed by the circumstances of the country." He says: "The reality determines that matters have to be done this way. Therefore, I believe that whoever wants Iraq to get rid of international forces must join hands with the government and the other political forces that are participating in it, and uphold what the Iraqi people have upheld until we realize a comfortable level of security and then we will use our legal and national rights to have international forces evacuated from Iraqi territory."
Nakuzi tells Al-Maliki that those who support resistance to the occupation say that there can be no security as long as there is occupation. Al-Maliki says that although some say this, the "majority of the Iraqi people and political forces" have made there decision and asked the United Nations to extend the presence of the international forces for one year, noting that the Iraqi government's request to the United Nations stipulated that the Iraqi government will be responsible for building the security forces and that it will have the right to ask these forces to leave Iraq at the time "of our choice and even before the end of the year," stressing that "if we want the international forces to leave Iraq now, we can ask them to do that."
Asked if he can make such a decision and present such a demand, and what would happen if the Americans withdrew, Al-Maliki says: "First of all, the prime minister has the right to issue such a demand and he can do that, but this demand must pass through the democratic channels according to the constitution. This is not the demand of the prime minister but the demand of the Iraqi government. This means that the Cabinet must approve the demand. This demand might require the approval of the Political Council on National Security because this is a big strategic issue. It might require the approval of the parliament as well."
Al-Maliki says that such a decision should be based on the success of the current security plan and after "we have destroyed the efforts of the terrorists, the militias, the opposition forces, and the states that back terrorism." He notes that the Baghdad operations are managed by the Iraqis, maintaining that "I was the one who drew up this plan and presented to the international side and they approved it. It was then adopted by the Army generals who added the necessary details."
Asked about the government's structure and performance, Al-Maliki says that there is harmony within the Cabinet, and the members of the Cabinet are eager to maintain the unity of the government and the Cabinet, that they are "shouldering their responsibilities," noting that the government is not influenced by "the quota system." He says the government is facing immense challenges and the public services require time, arguing that the power generating stations and oil refineries need three or four years to build and noting that the Iraqi people perhaps do not know that, "but it is their right to demand services."
He says that some of the administrative governors say that what has been realized in their areas "in terms of drinking water, opening roads, and rehabilitating hospitals," has been "10 times as much as what was realized during the last 10 years of the rule of the previous regime." However, he says that these services facilities, which the government is exerting immense efforts to accomplish, are being destroyed because of political objectives and agendas," maintaining that they "kill people and sabotage the infrastructure and services in order to incite people against the government." He says Iraq has returned to its Arab and international position, adding that its economy has developed, its latest budget has been the "greatest budget in Iraq's history," its doors for domestic investment have been reopened, and a new law on oil and gas has been approved. He says that "this year will witness greater development in services, because we have benefited from the experiment of last year."
He says during Saddam's rule the employee's salary was $24 per year and now the lowest salary is $1,600. He argues that the markets were closed but now "there is everything." He says during the previous regime, nobody was allowed to use a mobile telephone because the regime feared the people and accused them of spying on it. He says that mobile telephones are currently used even by "terrorists and killers" to detonate boobytrapped vehicles, "but we cannot prevent the citizen from using these services." However he says what has been realized in terms of services is much less than what is needed and the government is determined to do more.
Al-Maliki says that the Iraqis never distinguished between Sunnis and Shi'is, that "most of our tribes are mixed," that there are "intermarriages" and they live together but "the bad political agendas created this problem." He says that internal political forces reject sectarianism and want to work together "but external policies" are to blame. He says: "The international political struggle is being fought on Iraqi soil, such as the struggle between Syria and Iran and some Arab states. Most of them are against the US presence and intervention because they are either afraid or because they reject the principle itself. This is perhaps legitimate. We in Iraq are paying the price of this struggle.
"There is another struggle, which is unfortunate because it is not realistic and the Iraqi people will never accept it. As I have said, Saddam Husayn succeeded in inciting the Arab states against Iran and against the Shi'is based on the so-called Iranian threat. Regrettably, this idea continues to exist. This means that they wanted another struggle in Iraq other than the regional Arab versus international struggle. There is a struggle of Iranian Shi'i versus Sunni-Arab or Sunni-Turkish. These are the agendas that are struggling on Iraqi soil. In fact the Iraqis will not accept to be with Iran against the Arab states or with the Arab states against Iran or with Turkey against Arab neighbours."
He says Iraq wants to build friendships with all these states and to destroy bad relations that the Iraqis inherited from the previous regime. He adds: "Based on this, while we speak of joint interests and positive relations, we will not allow anybody, no matter what his relationship with us is - ethnic or denominational - to violate a single inch of our territory and sovereignty. The Arabs should rest assured about this, and that is what Iran and Turkey should be reassured about."
Asked if Iran wants to destabilize Iraq because of its differences with the Americans, he says that he does not think that Iran or the Arab states benefit from destabilizing Iraq but the whole thing "is caused by complex contradictions and differences, the struggle with the US side, or against a background of sectarian challenges. Indeed, destabilizing security in Iraq is a destabilization of Iran's security and the security of the other Arab states. They are all aware that Iraq is not an isolated variable in the region's equation. Given its internal contradictions and its political and social structure, if Iraq remains destabilized, then the repercussions and impact of this destabilization will not stop at the borders of Iraq. Everybody knows this and therefore I am reassured that none of them wants to confuse the situation to the point of collapse but they want to establish a fighting position in Iraq to confront the others. Regrettably, although they do not realize this fact, these stands lead to creating confusing.
"I do not blame the Arab states, Iran, or Turkey when they talk like this. However, we the Iraqis should not lay down the red carpet and present flowers to those who want to enter Iraq to continue their struggles against others."
Asked why he is not dissolving the militias, especially Al-Mahdi Army, Al-Maliki says that he will talk "very frankly" on this issue. He argues that the militias are not only Shi'is. There is the Al-Mahdi Army and others, he says, "but the number of these militias are much greater than what is commonly known, and regrettably all security protection organizations have become militias," noting that the more active ones "steal the limelight."
He says his decision has always been that arms should be in the hands of the state and that no political party activists will be allowed into the Armed Forces, adding: "Therefore, the Ba'th Party is a militia in Iraq. Al-Qa'idah is a militia, the Sunni or Shi'i opposition forces are militias, but the decision is to oppose all militias regardless of their denominational, sectarian, or ethic affiliations." He says he has never been allied with any militias, stressing the need for "law and order." He says he accepted "no favours from any militias and I will not recognize any bloc that might compel me to tolerate any anti-national practices."
Asked if he feels that the Shi'i community is apprehensive that the Sunnis might return to power in Iraq, Al-Maliki says: "When the constitution was drafted, some entertained such apprehensions and, therefore, I think that the constitution needs genuine revision, not as some want; namely in order to introduce additional rights or to cancel other rights, but in order to draft a constitution that builds a modern, humanitarian, and civilized state; a state of partnership among the citizens."
Asked about claims that the Baghdad security plan is only aimed against Sunni areas, that arrests are made only among Sunnis, he replies that the Shia believe that the operation is directed at them because of the many arrests among them, noting that the Al-Sadr Movement believes that the operation was planned to confront this movement. He notes that the Sunnis also say the same thing but the plan is "against both if they contravene the law and it is for the sake of both if they abide by the law."
Asked about reports that there is a "parliamentary plan" aimed at toppling and replacing the prime minister; that there will be a "bloodless coup," withdrawals from the Iraqi coalition, and the formation of a "broad parliamentary bloc to bring down Nuri al-Maliki's government," Al-Maliki says he welcomes any such "bloodless coups" if they are carried out through the parliament and democratic methods, adding that he "encourages those who follow peaceful methods to realize their objectives regardless of their motives. He says he would not hold on to his position at the expense of democracy and will not be lenient "towards conspiratorial operations that aim to take the country back to the age of military coups." He adds: "However, there are plots on the level of military coups especially by those who were accustomed to such coups, who lived during the times of the coups, and whose mentality was formed during the rule of the former Ba'thists who thought only of military coups. I will not allow this thing to happen at all."
Asked if he is still enjoying the backing of the United States, he says: "Concerning the US project or policy, democracy is sacred, held in high esteem, and cannot be tampered with, and that those who come to power do so through democracy. Therefore, the American side respects this democracy. This is reiterated every now and then, and the rules of democracy are always adhered to. As for the US backing and whether the Americans are still extending their backing to the government with the same strength, or whether this backing is waning, I myself feel that there is a genuine backing because the success will be a success of a democratic and civilized project. I have not felt that there is a change in stands against terrorism, violence, and sectarianism despite certain developments in the Congress and within the US Administration."
He says: "This question is left for the Americans to answer: Are you still extending the same backing? I believe, and judging by what I hear from them, they are sponsoring and committed to democracy and its results and are supporting it."
Al-Maliki says that "nobody has any interest in trying to take the situation back to square one" and "nobody has any interest in returning to the age of plotting, coups, and circumvention," and adds: "Moreover, the political conditions that produced this government are still firm and such withdrawals are a natural and good development - some leave this side and join that. However, even those who left expressed their support for the government. There is no harm if they are under this banner or that banner. The general climate in parliament and within the political forces is that of an immense support, backing, and sponsoring of the government because everybody feels, sincerely and reasonably, that this government must succeed." He says the government is supported by the people and the Council of Representatives.
Asked finally when security will prevail in Iraq, he says that there is terrorism and danger in the streets but "we can hold this interview in any Baghdad street." He says: "Ministers go about in the street and life has started to return to normal. This might need time but we are now dismantling Al-Qa'idah and the infrastructure of terrorism and the militias, and we have realized great successes, the most important of which is that the average citizens now have confidence in the government. But please give us time, not more than a few months." Al-Maliki asks Nakuzi to come to Baghdad and hold another interview with him in a month's time and "you will see a different Baghdad than the one that you are seeing today."
Source: Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai

Originally Posted by mr_india

Does anybody think so,that this Dinnar price will be equeal to US dollar??

Y E S !!! the DINAR will be worth more than the dollar... and very soon !!!

Originally Posted by pee wee

Y E S !!! the DINAR will be worth more than the dollar... and very soon !!!

Precisely, however and in the meantiome, that launching is still by far... quite a while to go, I won't reckon anywhere before Nov 2007... but thats my calculated view shared with many outside the forum and tracking closely from elsewhere too that are optimistic and certainly, ever cautious as well on a date no earlier than what I believe firmly in.

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Number of banks 16 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1272 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ 1270 -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 80.675.000 -----
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"The More They Take, The More We Make"
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8.35 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 - 100,074,600,000 pulled out of circulation today 4/15/07.

3. 16 banks participating today

4. 122nd auction since the beginning of CBI's reval plan

5. 197 days into the CBI's reval plan. (SIX MONTHS+)

6. 8,351,077,621,000 dinars pulled from circulation !!

6A. ESTIMATED Dinars still in circulation 8,648,922,379,000

7. "2,540,000,000" 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.