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

Just following on, I'd like to see Saudis debt finalised too. Susie, any info on this??? I've not heard anything....

Originally Posted by Onenomad

There was a post about the ISX being closed tomorrow due to the various press releases I can confim Warka just emailed me saying my stock list will be bought on the next ISX session Monday 16th Oct so does look like Thurs is closed

yes because they are only open monday and wednesday from 10am to 2pm.

Originally Posted by goldraker

Posted by: Silverspoon


The Republic of Iraq

Council of Ministers-the governmental communications


Media Relations

A press statement / Press Release

Sunday, 10-8-2006



The official spokesman of the Iraqi government : the Ministry of Finance is responsible exclusively for the negotiation and signing of the sovereign credit of the Republic of Iraq

His official spokesman of the Iraqi government, Dr. Skinner on that the Ministry of Finance is responsible exclusively for the negotiation and signing of the sovereign credit of the Republic of Iraq.

He added, in recognition of what was said in the press conference that followed the meeting of the Council of Ministers last Thursday, The Ministry of Planning is the sole entity with the authority to negotiate and sign on grants and international aid.

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it isnt saying its about debt. its saying the MOF is the person in charge of handling the money/payments. and how exactly are they paying for stuff? the stuff they arent spending usd on i mean.

Originally Posted by goldraker

I think that this will be about debt relief. And maybe the FIL announcement. I do not think so though. IMHO

it will be about how they plan on paying all these things they got lined up to buy/payfor/giveaway. it will be about the revalue of the dinar in order to have that money to pay for things with.

Originally Posted by Justpraying

If memory serves me correct there is a document posted on CBI that states the announcement would be made jointly by the MOF and the Govener of CBI.

yep, sure is.

> October 11, 2006
> Studying the establishment of the first civilian airport in Wasit
> The council of Wasit governorate formed a special committee to study the
establishment of the first civilian airport in the providence, Nizar Hajami,
Vice President of the council, said: "the committee formed by the Council will
survey the former military airport, Al-Bashaair (60 km south of Kut), then
decide the possibility of utilizing its facilities and transforming it into a
civilian airport after obtaining the approval of the Cabinet for the purpose of
using it in air transport among the provinces near Wasit and neighboring
countries, as well as facilitate the transfer of pilgrims and visitors to holy
sites".
>
> He added: "Some of the airport installations, covering a total of 30000
thousand acres, are in good condition, like the take off runway with a length of
more than 3 Km. because it was rarely used previously. The current airport needs
some buildings and rooms for administrative, security and technical work as well
as resting and waiting halls for passengers".(Source)AlSabah

Originally Posted by Adster

Just following on, I'd like to see Saudis debt finalised too. Susie, any info on this??? I've not heard anything....

saudi is done. that came in thread 3 i think.

> October 11, 2006
> Shehrastani announces the intention to build a one billion USD refinery
> the minister of oil Dr. Hussein al-Shehrastani has announced his ministry's
intention to establish new oil refinery between al- Najaf and Kerbala provinces
over the next year with productive capacity reaches to 140,000 barrels per day
and cost of one billion USD. During inauguration al-Najaf refinery last
Saturday, al-Shehrasstani said: the ministry had prepared a plan to build a
number of refineries in the northern, middle and southern regions of the country
to reach self-sufficiency of fuel production and fulfill the local market need
of the oil derivatives to do without importing it abroad as it costs government
huge sums.(Source)AlSabah

11 October 2006 (AP Worldstream)
Gatherings of Iraq's top politicians start with polite greetings and dinner. But once the after-meal tea is poured, they let loose: Sunnis and Shiites accusing each other of supporting death squads. Mistrust is deep in what was once lauded as Iraq's national unity government.

The tensions between them mount with each new tragedy _ and it is even worse when the bloodshed becomes personal, as it did this week with the slaying of a brother of Iraq's most prominent Sunni Arab politician, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.

Sunnis blamed Shite militias in the killing _ the third sibling of al-Hashimi to be gunned down. The political leaders had been planning to meet to flesh out a plan to stop the sectarian violence, but now it will likely have to be put off a few days until tempers cool, Shiite lawmaker Bassem Sherif said Tuesday.

U.S. officials have said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has only a matter of two or three months to show he can stop the violence that has left thousands dead and threatens to tip the country into civil war. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice met last week with most of the party heads and gave them a blunt warning that the American public won't support a government torn by internal feuds.

But al-Maliki has to find a solution at the head of a government which, many say, includes the killers themselves.

"The trust between them is destroyed," Hassan al-Shimari, a lawmaker from the Shiite Fadila party, said of the government's coalition of Sunni and Shiite parties. "Each side is afraid of the other, and in these meetings, the fear is increasing."

Still, none of the parties is threatening to leave the administration. Instead, they are locked in an embrace of hatred.

Several of the Shiite parties on which al-Maliki relies for power head militias _ particularly the Sadr Movement, which runs the Mahdi Army, the militia Sunnis fear most and say regularly kidnaps Sunnis and dumps their bound and tortured corpses on the streets of Baghdad.

Entwined in the political process, the militias are in plain sight. At a lavish dinner last week that gathered members of parliament, the Cabinet and other leaders, al-Maliki spoke about the need for parties to give up their militias.

But outside, the hundreds of gunmen guarding the affair were not police: They were fighters loyal to the host, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Shiite coalition that dominates parliament. His party says its longtime militia, the Badr Brigade, has been dissolved _ but Sunnis say it still exists and is quietly involved in killings.

Shiites, in turn, say the Sunni parties are linked to the Sunni insurgents who for the past three years have been blowing up Shiites with car bombs and gunning them down in shooting attacks.

Yet al-Maliki regularly has to call the heads of all these parties together for meetings to make the tough decisions that parliament and his Cabinet can't resolve _ and in recent weeks the gatherings have become increasingly stormy.

Often the gatherings are held over dinner, said Khalaf al-Alayan, leader of the Sunni National Dialogue Council.

"We eat without anyone talking about what's going on, because we'd be too angry to eat. Then after the tea, the accusations start," he said.

Each side throws out specific examples of kidnappings, murders, bombings and blames the other for them, prompting the other to bring out his own list of atrocities, al-Alayan and other participants in the meetings said.

"The Shiites sit and complain, and if you listened to them you'd want to reach for a handkerchief. So then we start raising our own complaints," he said.

At one session over the weekend, al-Maliki was lecturing the party heads on the need to find a way to end the bloodshed, al-Hashimi slipped him a note saying a new kidnapping of Sunnis had just been reported.

The prime minister handed the note to the representative of the Sadr Movement, who protested the abduction was no doubt in response to a July attack in which Sunni militants kidnapped 85 Shiites from a factory north of Baghdad and killed 50 of them, said a participant in the meeting, who gave the details on the condition of anonymity.

"It starts with polite handshakes, but then it turns into each side shouting, 'You're the ones killing us,'" said Sherif, the head of the Fadila party.

He and al-Shimari, however, said the brutal frankness could be a good sign, showing that both sides realize they must find a solution.

"There is seriousness now because everyone fears the situation is going to eat them alive," al-Shimari said. "Before you would have political enemies greeting each other with kisses even when behind the scenes they were working against each other," he said.

But it could also be a recipe for paralysis as both sides dig in and the country tears itself apart.

"The sectarian killings in the street are not the responsiblity of the Sadr Movement or the Mahdi Army," insisted Nasser al-Saedi, a lawmaker from the party.

"They come from young Shiites reacting to the terrorists, who are present in the government and in the parliament," he said, referring to the Sunni parties.

In turn, the Sunni leaders, who deny any links to the insurgency, are becoming more desperate.

During Rice's visit to Iraq, al-Hashimi and the leader of the Sunni coalition in parliament, Adnan al-Dulaimi, handed her a detailed list of slayings of Sunnis, said al-Alayan. They told her the killings were done by the Mahdi Army and Badr Brigade and that the militias had the support of the government.

They also gave her a stark warning: Either the Americans protect Sunnis or they will take up weapons to protect themselves, al-Alayan said.

"If we (Sunnis) remain in the condition we're in now, we'll be finished," al-Alayan said. "If the zero hour is coming, we will take the decisions needed to defend ourselves."

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

saudi is done. that came in thread 3 i think.

Thanks, not seen or heard anything on any forum for Saudis debt. Is there an official article stating this that you put on Susie? If so I'll go hunt it out.