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

Originally Posted by MC Dig

I live in LA, and there are no Chase banks here so I am SOL. I heard that in Arizona, M&I bank sold Dinar.

I believe there are Bank One Branches in LA . . .Bank One just got bought by Chase . . .I havent heard yet if they have converted and if the will buy/sell IQD . . .Im tired of dealer prices, but that wont matter when it revals.

I have them in my hand . . .that's ALL that matters

Originally Posted by ozizoz

I have them in my hand . . .that's ALL that matters

Amen Brother!

Originally Posted by zipper

the hall of electronic ... and learn how to use... maybe setting up their version of C-SPAN? this part is pretty garbled from translation

October 12th October 1st; just go with October 12th, since it ain't the first

Tax bennies for ten years for foreign investors, not sure about the 50, perhaps their specific ownership of whatever type company they are, maybe to assure them of protection from being nationalized/socialized? Read prior that land can be leased but not owned for up to 40 years, so that's a separate issue.

Deputy Samia Aziz is pissed off about some relatives getting killed, and others agreed that relatives being killed is generally considered 'bad'.

Here's the one you'll like: Parliament has stuff to do with certain deadlines, and they are supposed to show up on time for the quorum headcount.

Originally Posted by Vipor

This, to me, sounds like a gripe session. A disciplinary session of sorts. Comments in blue.

thanks, ok, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
i mean, its the key to when they are doin the votin and its a bloody math problem. ten after ten on the tenth in the tenth month ,,, the only time during ramadan you can do anything official is at ten after ten?
what???

Politicians have $20 million set aside, despite poor news out of Iraq


Now that they've been to Baghdad to pick up their dinar, look who's getting ready to party! Honestly they didn't strike me as the type:

Congress ready to celebrate end-of-war party

Congress ready for end-of-war party - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com

Updated: 1:27 p.m. PT Oct 4, 2006
WASHINGTON - The military’s top generals have warned Iraq is on the cusp of a civil war and that U.S. troops must remain in large numbers until at least next spring. But if the winds suddenly blow a different direction, Congress is ready to celebrate with a $20 million victory party.

Lawmakers included language in this year’s defense spending bill, approved last week, allowing them to spend the money. The funds for “commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan were originally tucked into last year’s defense measure, but went unspent amid an uptick in violence in both countries that forced the Pentagon to extend tours of duty for thousands of troops.

Republicans have yet to claim responsibility for the provision. Democrats say it was likely added by the Senate’s majority Republicans, and less than five weeks from congressional elections are pointing to it as another example of where the GOP has gone astray handling the war in Iraq.

“If the Bush administration is planning victory celebrations, Americans deserve to know what their plan is to get us to a victory in Iraq,” said Rebecca Kirszner, spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Carolyn Weyforth, spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said, “Republicans are confident we will be victorious in the ongoing war in terror, and we look forward to a time when those funds can be used to honor the men and women who have risked and given their lives.”

President can designate victory day
Under the language, the president could “designate a day of celebration” to honor troops serving in the two wars. The president also could call on the nation “to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities” and issue awards to troops who have served honorably.

The Pentagon could spend up to $20 million of its $532 billion budget in 2007 for the commemoration, minus any private contributions it might receive for such an event.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

thanks, ok, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
i mean, its the key to when they are doin the votin and its a bloody math problem. ten after ten on the tenth in the tenth month ,,, the only time during ramadan you can do anything official is at ten after ten?
what???

Susie, I think this just means that this is the time they have set to meet during the month of Ramadan.

And, it seems consistent with some of the other articles that in general, those in charge are making a HUGE effort to keep them moving and not getting bogged down in debates.

Originally Posted by ozizoz

I believe there are Bank One Branches in LA . . .Bank One just got bought by Chase . . .I havent heard yet if they have converted and if the will buy/sell IQD . . .Im tired of dealer prices, but that wont matter when it revals.

I have them in my hand . . .that's ALL that matters

Ok OZ, thanks for the tip,

I will stop by a branch tomorrow and inquire about the Dinar. I too have a nice stash in hand, but everyday w/o an r/v is another day to buy more Dinar!

Originally Posted by zipper

Susie, I think this just means that this is the time they have set to meet during the month of Ramadan.

Yes, that is the way I understood it. A specific time for this month (Ramadan) only. So "be there or suffer the consequences".

Iraqi police brigade, death squads link probed
Meanwhile, four more U.S. soldiers killed in mounting violence


• Iraq pulls police brigade
Oct. 4: The Iraqi government has taken an entire police brigade off the streets of Baghdad because of possible criminal involvement. NBC's Jane Arraf reports.
NBC News



NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Updated: 1 hour, 44 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities for the first time pulled a brigade of about 700 policemen out of service Wednesday for investigation of suspected ties to death squads, aiming to signal the government’s seriousness in cleansing Baghdad of sectarian violence.

The government move came amid steadily mounting violence, particularly in the capital. A U.S. military spokesman said the past week had seen the highest number of car bombs and roadside bombs in Baghdad this year.

Four U.S. soldiers patrolling in Baghdad were killed by gunmen on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, also announcing the deaths of two other soldiers a day earlier in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk. The deaths brought to 21 the number of Americans killed in combat since Saturday.

The suspension of the police brigade was the first time the Iraqi government has taken such dramatic action to discipline security forces over possible links to militiamen. Baghdad’s Sunnis widely fear the Shiite-led police, saying they are infiltrated by militias and accusing them of cooperating with death squads who snatch Sunnis and kill them.

The brigade was responsible for a region of northeast Baghdad where gunmen on Sunday kidnapped 24 workers from a frozen food factory. Hours later, the bodies of seven of the workers were found dumped in a district miles away. Sunni politicians have said all those who were kidnapped were Sunnis; the region has a mixed population with a slight Shiite majority.

Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the chief ministry spokesman, said the brigade was being investigated because it “didn’t respond quickly” to the kidnapping. Sunnis blamed Shiite militias for the abduction and accused police of allowing the gunmen to escape and move freely with their captives.

Any militia ties won't be tolerated
The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said the police brigade in the area had been ordered to stand down and was undergoing retraining. He said some were being investigated and that any found to have militia ties would be removed.

“The government of Iraq was very clear as we go through this process that if that (unit) comes out at 30 percent of what it went in with, that’s OK with the government of Iraq,” he told a Baghdad news conference.

“There is clear evidence that there was some complicity in allowing death squad elements to move freely when, in fact, they were supposed to have been impeding their movement,” Caldwell said.

The U.S. military appeared to have a key role in getting the brigade sidelined. Caldwell said problems with the unit had emerged during a broad brigade-by-brigade assessment of police in Baghdad carried out by the U.S. military over the summer — and the decision was made by the Interior Ministry to act Tuesday.

U.S. forces have been carrying out raids and arrests of militia members for the past month as part of a wide-scale U.S.-Iraqi sweep of Baghdad launched in August, which has seen the number of American troops in the capital double.

Forces have been moving from neighborhood to neighborhood, searching houses, confiscating weapons and arranging services like water and electricity for residents in an attempt to stop sectarian violence and insurgent attacks. The rise in U.S. deaths in recent days may be linked to their increased presence in the capital, commanders have said.

But at the same time, Sunnis have accused the Shiite-led government of balking at sending its security forces against the Shiite militias, many of which are linked to parties in the coalition.

About 700 members in suspended unit
The suspended brigade had about 650-700 members, and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday that its commander of the unit, a lieutenant colonel, has been detained for investigation. The major general who oversees the brigade and two others in the area has been suspended temporarily and ordered transferred.

Khalaf said a random selection of troops in the suspended unit were being investigated for ties to militias.

The sectarian spiral of revenge killings between Shiites and Sunnis has become the deadliest violence in Iraq, with thousands slain in recent months. “Over the past three months, murders and executions (by death squads) have caused the majority of civilian deaths in Iraq,” Caldwell said.

The violence has also threatened to undermine the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as Shiite and Sunni parties in his coalition accuse each other of backing militias.

New unity plan for Iraq
On Monday, al-Maliki announced this week a new security plan to unite the feuding parties, by creating local committees in which Sunnis and Shiites will work together to manage efforts to stop the violence on a district-by-district level.

But contentious details of the plan still must be worked out — and Shiite and Sunni parties for a second day on Wednesday put off negotiations.

At the same time, Sunni-led insurgents have continued their attacks targeting civilians, Iraqi officials and U.S. and Iraqi troops.

Car bombs, as well as other explosions and shootings, killed 34 people across the country Wednesday. In the deadliest attack, a string of two bombs and an explosive-packed vehicle blew up in a district of stores and auto shops in a mainly Christian neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 12 people and wounding 56, police said.

Hours later, after sunset and the end of the day’s Ramadan fast, gunmen opened fire on a popular cafe in southeast Baghdad, killing four patrons and wounding seven others.

Caldwell said the number of car bombs and roadside bombs that went off or had been found and defused over the past week was the highest this year. He declined to give firm numbers, but said, “The trend line has been up over the last couple of months.”

But he also said the military has killed or captured an increasing number of suspected members of al-Qaida in Iraq, the most feared Sunni insurgent group. In September, 110 al-Qaida suspects were killed and 520 detained — including a driver of the group’s leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, captured on Sept. 28.