Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

UPDATE!!
ok, we have found the page that lists ALL the pdf's which are associated with 4025. just one was translated and it was dealing with contracts for importing goods. the rest listed here have been translated and are other laws imposed,,,, still wondering what laws were omited....

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

جردية الوقائع العراقية
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/1.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/2.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/3.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/4.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/7.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/8.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/11.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/12.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/13.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/14.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/15.pdf
http://www.uruklink.net/iqlaw/4025/16.pdf

Originally Posted by Dinar-Excited

Hey You,

You like the added addition to the name me to.

I do not know about the chat I am still figuring out the lay out of this forum but I like it a lot!!

Dinar-Very Very Excited

This will quide you thru the Dinar Part of the Forum:http://www.rolclub.com/iraqi-dinar-dinarinfo-com/

Btw, I have moved some post to the Crazy Thread.

Did anyone watch Bloombergs TV today? They had a news bulletin running. About how Bush was promising that he would get the deficit down! Then it said something like. But he may only have till the end of the year?

It was kinda strange! Anyone else notice that?

2 sections (I am still talking with him now).

section 1. the baghdad lockdown:
The bodyguard was respon for over 1000 deaths and 300 car bombs
He was enroute to the Greenzone.
He was also, slowly, targeting all other politicians.


section 2. the FIL:
as of Thursday (last day he was in a meeting), the FIL (w/ regards to the MOO) was a hot topic and, for my understanding, a signed bill that was in the process of being delivered from the MOO back to Parliment.

As for the RV, I have to wonder..new fiscal year, all this...the Iraqis have to do something ASAP...

Originally Posted by texaslonghorns

Here is what we want # 3 to say: As of Oct 1 2006 the dinar is .87 to the US dollar.


Here is what it actually says: As of Oct 1 your dog liscence fee is 1478 dinars kind sirs.


Will this ride ever end????

DRIVER! PULL THIS BABY OVER AND LET THIS GUY OUT, HE CANT HANDLE THE BUMPS!!

Interesting...

The Shia-Sunni battle for oil
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
[ 1 Oct, 2006 0057hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

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Some conspiracy theorists will have you believe that everything in the Middle East is about oil, including the US invasion of Iraq. But the fact is that, three years after the invasion, the Americans have not acquired any Iraqi oilfield.

Yet, in one sense the hundreds of weekly killings in Iraq are indeed about oil. This relates not to the US occupation but the Sunni-Shia struggle for controlling oil.

Iraq's population consists roughly of 60% Shia Arabs, 20% Kurds and 12% Sunni Arabs (the balance being small minorities). Iraq has for centuries been ruled by Sunnis. Democracy has now empowered the Shia majority, and Sunnis fear the consequences.

The biggest oilfields in the country are in the Shia south, and the rest are in the northern Kurdish region. There is no oil in the Sunni triangle in the middle of the country.

The new Constitution of Iraq was long delayed because of heated debates on sharing oil revenue. One constitutional provision says that oil belongs to the people of Iraq in all regions. Yet, the Constitution also gives autonomy to the three regions Shia, Sunni and Kurd. This fuels Sunni fears that the other two regions will ultimately hog all the oil.

You cannot attribute the murderous battles between Sunni and Shia militia to oil alone. The strife is also caused by religious and regional tensions, the Baathist backlash, and the belief of some Sunnis that the Shia-Kurd majority is an American poodle. Yet, overlying all these causes is tension over oil.

The tension is not limited to Iraq: it pervades the whole Gulf. Muslims in the region oppose the US occupation, yet all Arab governments desperately want US troops to stay on. Why?
Because they fear that US withdrawal will encourage Iran to foment Shia insurrections in every Sunni-ruled state in the Gulf. The Shia population is substantial and sometimes dominant along the Gulf shoreline.

The entire shoreline was part of the Persian Sassanid Empire in the 7th century. That is why the body of water was called the Persian Gulf. The Sassanid Empire was Zoroastrian. Soon after, Arab Islam swept through the Middle East.

But it split along Shia-Sunni lines. The Shias dominated Iran, Iraq and some other parts of the Gulf shoreline. The Sunnis controlled most other regions, including the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

The Middle East was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onwards. The Empire collapsed after World War I, and the British ushered in the rule of assorted Sunni kings and sheikhs.

Oil transformed the region. Saudi Arabia discovered the biggest oilfields in the world. But 70% of its oil lay in the Shia-majority region on the Gulf shore. This made the Saudi royal family paranoid about the possibility that these Shias, abetted by Iran (and now Iraq), would secede and take the oilfields with them.

Baqir Solagh, former interior minister and now finance minister of Iraq, last year accused Saudi Arabia of violating the civil rights of Shias in its eastern region, and called for justice.

This caused consternation in Riyadh. Shortly after, the minister's brother was kidnapped, and he attributed this to Saudi revenge. Whether true or not, it highlighted how high Sunni-Shia tensions run over oil.

Events in Lebanon have further worried the Saudis. Hezbollah, the Shia party of Lebanon, has gained de facto control of the southern part of the country. It has been armed by Iran and is too powerful for the Lebanese government to disarm.

Hezbollah battled Israel in July and August and was widely seen to have won, simply because it was the first time that Israeli forces failed to win. Hezbollah's rockets killed over 100 Israelis, and it claims to have 20,000 rockets still in reserve.

Hezbollah has become a hero to Muslims throughout the Middle East, even Sunnis. This makes Sunni rulers uneasy. The have long relied on Sunni-Shia antagonism to keep Iranian machinations at bay. But if Iran and Hezbollah attain heroic status among all Muslims in the Gulf, Sunni rulers fear loss of authority, and maybe of their oilfields too.

Many geologists feel that global oil production is close to a historical peak, after which it will decline and send prices spiralling. But one American academic, Amy Jaffe of the Baker Institute, theorises that Saudi Arabia may seek to discomfit Iran by sharply increasing oil production to deliberately cause a price crash.

Saudi Arabia has a huge trade surplus and can shrug off a lower oil price. But a low oil price will convert Iran's trade surplus into a deficit, creating problems for a country already facing international financial and banking curbs.

I personally doubt that Saudi paranoia about Iran will go to this extreme. But the very fact that academics are speculating on the impact of Shia-Sunni tensions on oil shows that the future of oil prices will be decided by geopolitics no less than geology.

The Shia-Sunni battle for oil- The Times of India

Oil speculation is $ 35.00 per barrel by 2009!!!!!!!! Shhhhhhhhhhh

The text of the interview conducted by satellite with Iraqi His Excellency the President of the Republic
Translated version of http://www.iraqipresidency.net/index.php?language=arabic
way to long to post, so here's web site, and mods if this has already been posted please remove

Check it out...

Insurgents spreading Iraq coup rumors


Iraqi government says ‘terrorists’ spreading rumor of military coup during all-day curfew.


BAGHDAD - Anti-government insurgents are spreading false rumors about an attempted coup in Baghdad, the government said Saturday, as the city was placed under curfew.

"This is a rumor that takfiris (Sunni extremists) and terrorists are spreading," said Brigadier General Qassim Mussawi, the prime minister's military spokesman, when asked about rumors of an impending military coup.

"This is not true, our forces will continue chasing terrorists in all sectors," he said on state television.

The all-day curfew was put in place Saturday "as a precautionary measure" said Mussawi, in response to intelligence tips about possible suicide attacks.

Two months ago rumors swirled about dissatisfaction in the Iraqi army leadership, and on Friday night the US television network NBC cited one of Iraq's deputy prime ministers as saying the military was planning a coup.

Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf laughed off the possibility of a coup.

"Who would be overthrowing whom? If you gave Baghdad to the army, they would say 'no, please keep it!'," he said.

"What would they do? Go down to the Green Zone and arrest (US Ambassador Zalmay) Khalilzad in the presence of a hundred thousand US soldiers?"
Middle East Online

US threatens to cut funding for Iraq's police


Khalilzad to notify Baghdad of cut due to violations of human rights by Iraq army, police.


NEW YORK - The United States may cut off funding for Iraq's police because of its failure to punish people responsible for torture, the US ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published on Saturday.
Zalmay Khalilzad told the New York Times that Washington has yet to formally notify Baghdad that funding may be cut, but officials are reviewing programmes because of a US law that forbids funding armies or police that violate human rights.

Khalilzad said he still had faith in Iraq's new Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, who oversees the police, and hoped he would punish those responsible for torture to avoid sanctions under the law, named for Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy.

"There is a Leahy Law that affects support if the terms of the law are not observed and implemented, and he has assured us that he will do so," Khalilzad said. "And we are still in discussions with him."

The United Nations said in a report earlier this month that torture was rampant in Iraqi detention centres and in the widespread sectarian killings seen across the country, based on the signs of abuse on victims' bodies.

The world body has demanded punishment of police responsible for abuse in Iraq after US and Iraqi inspectors uncovered evidence in May of systematic torture at a prison known as Site 4, run by the Interior Ministry's national police.

Some 1,400 inmates were kept at the site. No Iraqi officials have been arrested. Khalilzad said Bolani was waiting for written assurances that indictments had been handed down.

Several senior US military officials have briefed reporters this week expressing concern that the new government of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has failed to crack down on Shi'ite death squads since taking office in May.

One of those officials said police units were continuing to cooperate with death squads as recently as the past few weeks, by allowing them to re-enter areas US forces had secured in a seven-week-old crackdown in the capital Baghdad.
Bolani, a Shi'ite engineer, is seen as having little clout among the powerful parties with their own militia that controlled the Interior Ministry in the government Maliki replaced. But Khalilzad said Bolani has the right intentions.

"He wants to do the right thing," he said.

"Not because of us, but because that's what Iraqi law would require him to do as well. That's a much better reason for him to do the right thing than for the US pressing him or the US threatening with some sort of a sanction."

Middle East Online