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

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Baghdad returns to normalcy
Web posted at: 10/2/2006 3:18:1
Source ::: Agencies
BAGHDAD • A nervous normality returned to Iraq's capital yesterday after a 24-hour curfew imposed after US troops arrested a top politician's bodyguard suspected of a plot to bomb the heavily fortified government compound.

The curfew was lifted at 6am (0300 GMT) and traffic converged on central Baghdad's busy streets as shops and businesses re-opened for the start of the full working week.

Though there is a daily overnight curfew and cars are banned during weekly prayers on Fridays, Saturday's blanket ban on all movement, even on foot, was unusually severe and disrupted the social life normally associated with the holy month of Ramadan.

On Friday, US troops arrested a security guard at the home of the leader of the main Sunni Arab political bloc, Adnan Al Dulaimi. They said the man planned suicide attacks in the government's "Green Zone" and may have had links to Al Qaeda.

"The detained individual is suspected of involvement in the planning of a multi-vehicle suicide operation inside Baghdad's International Zone," the military said on Saturday.

A senior official in the Accordance Front named the arrested man as Khudhar Farhan and said he was in his mid-20s and had joined Dulaimi's security staff about a month ago. Dulaimi leads the Front, the largest Sunni bloc in parliament...

Meanwhile, the capture of the new Al Qaeda in Iraq leader is imminent, a government official said yesterday after showing the first video images of the wanted man and Baghdad buzzed over revelations of a plot to attack the heavily fortified Green Zone.

"I can say we are very close to Abu Ayyub Al Masri and we say to him your days are numbered," Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwaffaq Al Rubaie told a televised news conference.

"We promise the Iraqi people that the next Eid (feast) will be two Eids," he said referring to the festival in three weeks' time celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

"One to celebrate the end of the fast, the other to celebrate the capture of Abu Hamza Al Masri."

On Friday the Al Qaeda leader, also known as Abu Hamza Al Muhajer, broadcast an Internet audio message threatening a renewed offensive in Iraq and a campaign to kidnap foreigners.

Rubaie said he expected Masri's capture imminently, citing Iraqi security operations around the country-in particular operations over the past three days by tribes in the western province of Anbar against Al Qaeda.

"The Anbar tribes are cooperating with the government to eradicate all terrorists," he said. "This is a nightmare for Masri."

Masri's identity was first revealed by the US military in July, after the June killing of his predecessor and Al Qaeda in Iraq founder Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

Masri was described as an Egyptian emigre with an extensive knowledge of explosives. The footage broadcast yesterday was an Al Qaeda training video that showed Masri explaining how to make bombs. It was seized southwest of Baghdad in Yusifiyah a few days earlier.

Traffic was moving again on Sunday with the curfew's end, but with the cars also came the bombs. Three people were killed and eight wounded in central Baghdad when a car exploded in the early afternoon.

The US military said only that "specially trained Iraqi army forces conducted an early morning raid today to capture a suspected terrorist involved in the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi civilians in northeast Baghdad".

"Iraqi forces with coalition advisers conducted the operation to detain an individual believed connected to illegal armed groups and involved in improvised explosive device attacks targeting innocent Iraqi civilians, Iraqi forces and US forces," a statement added.

Much of Baghdad's violence has been laid at the feet of the Mahdi Army, but until now the US military had not included Sadr City in weapons searches conducted under the security plan.

There was no official explanation for the curfew which emptied streets on Saturday but a political source said it was linked to security in the Green Zone that had been compromised. Another senior official said Baghdad feared large-scale unrest.

The 5-sq km riverside compound once occupied by Saddam Hussein is home to thousands of people, including most senior officials, parliament and the US and British embassies.

In March, Iraq jailed several defence officials accused of a plot to infiltrate hundreds of al Qaeda fighters into the Zone's security force.

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Maliki will meet the Governor and the President of the presence of Al-Ramadi Hashemi and the ministers of defense and interior
Baghdad-Al-Anbar
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with the Governor and the President of the Anbar governorate yesterday, the security situation and the developments in Ramadi clans battle with the terrorists. The governor said Mamoun Sami Alaloni told (morning) :


The Prime Minister briefed in a meeting attended by Vice-President Tarek Hashemi, minister of Defense and the Interior Abdul Qader Mohammed Jawad al-Ubaydi, who is on the overall situation of the details of Anbar province after the pledge made by the clan leaders of the owners to prosecute terrorists.
The observers speculate that the battle of the clans yielded victories and clear in a few days was to kill a number of terrorists and chased them in the wilds of the island Bank and they conclude that this strangulation caused them to withdraw to Baghdad in an attempt to hide but the government made them the way to impose a comprehensive ban last Saturday.
The governor of Anbar predict the return of stability to maintain within a short period of time, and said in a meeting with the (morning) : Anbar tribes that would not backtrack on Antvacoctha against terrorists and will continue to chase them everywhere.
The governor of Anbar, Mamoun Sami formation of the Directorate for the Protection of roads.
He said : There is a plan studied with the Minister of the Interior would require the passage of Trebil-Baghdad and Baghdad-Walid.
He added : Sami this Directorate will consist of very large numbers and would equip the cars developed modern, fast and sophisticated offensive weapons, as well as to provide communication between detachments Directorate will spread on the road, which links the international Iraq with Syria and Jordan to protect citizens. He explained : that there had been a marked decrease during this period sabotaged out on the road after vanquished terrorist elements corrupt. It is hoped the governor, Mamoun Sami Al Alaloni that breathes Anbar blessing stability in order to begin reconstructing wide campaign said : Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised to the people of this province.
The Maliki met a group of tribal chiefs known in Anbar where it pledged to retaliate against terrorist cells and groups that have wreaked havoc in the province.
Within a few days the clan was able to prosecute persons involved in terrorist operations, news agencies reported that the tribes demanded the government to confront the fleeing across the Syrian border. A statement issued by the Office of the Adjutant General of the Armed Forces yesterday that the clans Anbar cooperation with the local police managed to raid nests, killing four terrorists and arrested eight others. and politicians and analysts believed that the interaction between the p Char-Anbar and the government would influence the terrorist cells and dismantle Balmenoal witnessed in the past few days, which forced the terrorist groups to the tactics quickly to meet the emergency situation. He said Dr Muwaffaq Rubaie National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised to support clans Anbar Pa for the money, weapons and personnel, and that this interaction will be created tribes to the pursuit of terrorists and harassing them, and said : We have narrowed the ways terrorists and not to them only in death or escape justice. For his part, President of the Al-Anbar governorate, Dr. Abdul Salam Abdullah : residents of Anbar want to be considered, and are determined to combat terrorism. This is a phrase reminiscent of the people in Anbar known courage and daring and refuse humiliation. The Iraqis throughout the country have Astthgulwa to see the silence before the clan groups Astabahth blood, and money supply in the province, before exiting Arinha killers to face with honor. The Chairman of the Council to maintain security plan provides for tightening grip of the terrorists and eliminated. In the meantime correspondent in Ramadi, Mustafa Sabah Al-Dulaimi said that three terrorists were killed in a car bomb exploded as they were transported to another location in order to detonate on the passersby or public services. He said : The mechanism and foot patrols of Iraqi and American forces searched some places in the city that are suspected of workshops where car bombs. With fighters launched by the American forces at dawn on Saturday an air raid on the strongholds of harboring terrorists in the Humera area south-east of Ramadi. witnesses said people from the region that the planes dropped Knab for heavy weight and power on the three houses believed to be harboring militants and destroyed completely, Witnesses said they did not know the number who were in the three houses. It is noteworthy that the city of Heet witnessed an escalation in terrorist operations in recent times due to the infiltration of terrorists from Ramadi, the impact of the establishment of the rescue Anbar, which is recently out of the tribes to the liquidation of those groups, which caused the deterioration of the security situation to maintain general and Ramadi in particular.
Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/

More good stuff....


National Security Adviser confirms that the security measures led to the imposition of ban
Baghdad-Sabah
The delay allowed the government to clarify the reasons for the sudden ban on individuals and vehicles Saturday for a speculated before that attribute National Security Advisor Dr. Muwaffaq Rubaie reasons for the security measures and denied reports that the government imposed the ban to foil a coup attempt-Rubaie said that the security forces have become much closer of the Egyptian Abu Ayub or Abu h U-Muhajir, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.


The spring in a press conference held yesterday, a video shows Khalifa al-Zarqawi during training some elements to the way car booby pointing out that the American forces seized the tape in the Yusufiyah days ago. Addressing the spring Abu Ayub, adding that the Iraqi forces become more of the earliest was arrested during a short period of time will be dead or un-cuffed before the courts and that the day are numbered. The tape showed images of explosives camouflaged and people speaking in an Egyptian dialect, found that the Egyptian alias Abu Hamza Muhajir also reviewed the tape Ptvkhikhha the car bombing claimed the lives of dozens.
He described Egyptian-Rubaie that miserable desperation began after humiliation and narrowing the rope around his neck he called for the killing of the elderly Anbar, which is responsible for the killing of Sheikh Osama Jadaan, who was assassinated in Al-Mansour last May.
The announcement coincided embargo hours after the arrest of one of the members of the protection of MP Adnan Al Dulaimi, head Accord Front and disclosure of a plan to attack the Green Zone in cars collided.
The declaration on the replacement of the multinational forces in charge of the protection of the Green Zone, one day after the arrest of one of the members to strengthen the protection Dulaimi predictions of a plan to attack the Green Zone in spite of multiple assurances that the replacement troops is a routine.
His spokesman declined commander-in-chief of the armed forces Qasim al-Musawi rumors that took place yesterday and the day before yesterday about the existence of a scheme to a coup d'etat, pointing out that such rumors by terrorists after the heavy losses it suffered.
He explained that the reason for the ban denominator is the fact that information about the entry of car bombs in Baghdad. Elham Musawi clarifications to some extent with the views of observers who associate this procedure the process of the rapid reaction executed by the Iraqi security forces in Diyala addition to the prosecution of a tribal Anbar Qaeda who hesitate information indicating a possible en route to Baghdad, which led the government to declare the ban Tharza.
With ruled MP Hamid Majid Moussa on the Iraqi List hypothesis of the existence of the scheme for the implementation of the military coup that pw government to declare curfews, saying that such a possibility was unlikely to get to the presence of multinationals and the balance of iron between classes of people saying to the "morning" that the increasing acts of terrorism, which is called the most pressing stack to take such action.
Bloc chest and hinted at the possibility of a military coup revealing that the news is based on unfounded - that the Attorney spokesman Bahaa Al-Araji added that the Baathists and terrorists do not have any chance of achieving this dispute.
Al-Araji asked in a press conference the government and all constitutional institutions in Iraq, a government reshuffle in the current government.
"We call on the cabinet reshuffle in the ministries and the security service and reach required amendments lists only other even-Alkvoein ministers in the list of the coalition.
Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/

The House of Representatives approved the extension of state of emergency
The parliament during its session today to extend the state of emergency in Iraq, except for Kurdistan for a period of thirty days with effect from October 1st this .
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Mahmoud Almshahadani that approval by two-thirds of the members of the Council who attended the meeting and who numbered 204 members.
The meeting witnessed the reading of the draft law on investment and listening to a number of remarks on the law.
After lifting Almshahadani meeting until tomorrow, Tuesday to complete the reading of a number of draft laws, including the first reading of the draft law on the National Center for Missing and Disappeared and approve the appointment of the Ilaq secretary gener prove the appointment of the Ilaq secretary general of the Council of Ministers and a Minister, in addition to the first reading of the draft law on amendment of the Act VII of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, No. 40 of 1988.

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Just read an article about the debts of Iraq and IMF of 19-09-2006.

Jeff Leys: Iraq and the IMF

There is stated that:

Repayment of debt claims is not being required until 2011...

I think that the GCC is an important issue in this. I think Iraq will get a full membership with the GCC. They will have one currency in 2010. At that point all exchange rates have to be kind of equal it think around $3-$4.

If this is the plan then Iraq cannot start with a low exchange rate because they must be in the $3-$4 range within 3 years.

All countries holding dinars will be paid of real good with the new currency which can be spend in all of those oil countries!!

Is there anybody that knows more details, documents etc about Iraq and the GCC?? I think this is also an important factor for doing things right!

I have to say at this point to read how they're tackling the terrorists is admireable and Maliki has to take a lot of the credit. In time these low lifes will see they have nowhere to go, drive them out and 'take them out'.

Stabilise the country and the country will prosper. The people will have jobs, money and a life worth living.

Originally Posted by kiko

Just read an article about the debts of Iraq and IMF of 19-09-2006.

Jeff Leys: Iraq and the IMF

There is stated that:

Repayment of debt claims is not being required until 2011...

I think that the GCC is an important issue in this. I think Iraq will get a full membership with the GCC. They will have one currency in 2010. At that point all exchange rates have to be kind of equal it think around $3-$4.

If this is the plan then Iraq cannot start with a low exchange rate because they must be in the $3-$4 range within 3 years.

All countries holding dinars will be paid of real good with the new currency which can be spend in all of those oil countries!!

Is there anybody that knows more details, documents etc about Iraq and the GCC?? I think this is also an important factor for doing things right!

Yes, Iraq is due to join the GCC in 2010 and will have to have parity with other countries with regards to exchange rates. But we are still 3 and a bit years away from that. The exchange has to be raised soon. And remember the line that always stands out in my mind from the CBI insider, 'The value of the dinar will rise SIGNIFICANTLY in 2006'......

Originally Posted by kiko

Just read an article about the debts of Iraq and IMF of 19-09-2006.

Jeff Leys: Iraq and the IMF

There is stated that:

Repayment of debt claims is not being required until 2011...

I think that the GCC is an important issue in this. I think Iraq will get a full membership with the GCC. They will have one currency in 2010. At that point all exchange rates have to be kind of equal it think around $3-$4.

If this is the plan then Iraq cannot start with a low exchange rate because they must be in the $3-$4 range within 3 years.

All countries holding dinars will be paid of real good with the new currency which can be spend in all of those oil countries!!

Is there anybody that knows more details, documents etc about Iraq and the GCC?? I think this is also an important factor for doing things right!

read the article last year on menafn that iraq was being considered by the gcc for assession.

Originally Posted by SGS:

all the courses will be taught in English as in the other five American Universities around the world.

Man, maybe I shoulda gone to one of those universities... None of my College Professors or their Teaching Assistants spoke english and I went to college here.



Oh, and I know the reval is happening for sure now. I was playing Yahtzee with my kids last night and I rolled 3 Yahtzees (5 of a kind) during the game. Its goin down baby.

Originally Posted by Adster

Just up folks, not had a chance to trawl back 20 pages on here! What I have seen elsewhere and maybe Susie can comment is that Maliki is holding up the r/v like Jaafari did and will be ousted very soon.....

I've not heard this from my sources and the comment was made by Gbush whom generally talks shiite!! Susie/Mike/anyone heard this???

Interesting,

I have not heard anything about Maliki on thin ice either at this point, although there is pressure and a three month window which was stated, so perhaps this could happen next year, but only if he does not address the militia disarming issues, then he deserves to be replaced. His fate is in his own hands at this point in time, but as we all know, this could change on a dime.

I have heard many will be replaced, and most already know it, hence the false coup rumours which were released, so I am all for that since most of these positions are held by illiterates, so it is time to clean house and put more Kurds in control, then we would see forward progress, but not before. Kurds are most frustrated of all for obvious reasons, just listen to the minister of oil to see what an ***** he is. (g)

Anyone else afflicted with IIO yet? LOL

Good luck to all, Mike