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

Originally Posted by TheBrain

Think the N was for new.

yes its for 'NEW'. im lookin for the page i saw that explains it very well. until then this is what i found on hours that i hadnt seen before for anyones info:

FOREX BASICS
FOREX MARKET HOURS

At 7:00 pm Sunday, New York time, trading begins as markets open in Tokyo, Japan. Next, Singapore and Hong Kong open at 9:00 pm EST, followed by the European markets in Frankfurt (2:00 am), and then London (3:00 am). By 4:00 am, the European markets are in full swing, and Asia has concluded their trading day. The U.S. markets open first in New York around 8:00 am Monday, as Europe winds down. Australia will take over around 5:00 pm, and by 7:00 pm Tokyo is ready to re-open.

All times are quoted in Eastern Standard Time (New York)

and i also found these sites i hadnt seen before or dont remember seeing that would be of interest to some:

USAID Telling Our Story: Iraq - New Currency Pays Tribute To The Iraqi People

Search Results For iraqi currencies at Wealthy Geek

New Iraqi Currency / New Iraqi Dinar

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/
(Go to site above and on the left side, look for Consensus, good reading! Thought provoking, especially about the last one, about Dinar!)
Oil wealth in Iraq. Nima. Or curse?

Razzaq Aday
Writer and Iraqi media
Of the countries that did not affect the natural and economic advantages and paid for before is Iraq, one quirk of fate that the country had not been forthcoming to him and his sons livelihoods course despite what is available from the empowered and natural advantages represented in rare arable land, The water and abundant embodied in Nahrin great, and the oil resources are in advanced degrees from the oil-producing countries,

Integrity and sabotage State

Kazem Jamasi *
* Waqqas and Iraqi media
From time to time they hear and read a news story that the public integrity discovered cases of administrative corruption, which enjoyed Abundant Iraq after the change, , decided to call the defendants involved before the courts, It is often involved in the appearance of the solution and the contract are entrusted with public funds, which shift between hands "Secretary"

Reconciliation and provincial assemblies

Adel Al - Amar peace
We have witnessed Iraq after the fall of the Principles of many variables in the overall political life, notably the construction of the structure of the state from the peak of the pyramid of the presidential body, and not (President sole or necessary) through other leadership of the House of Representatives, the Council of Ministers, and even access to the provincial assemblies, which is located in the pyramid, which contribute to the building of a democratic Iraq.

The Arab system. Between the state security. American democracy

Criticism of the Arab political mind
Kadhim called bandaged and
No State, and one in the Arab world could call the nomination of a democratic state it because it is tooth decay and the right people and govern society by the sword because it originally came with a sword. They soaked in blood from the top to the soles of her feet. Had they opened ((Gap)), no matter how small, the result impatience of the people - and a habit of the Arab peoples that is shifting -

Political antagonism

Muhammad Yunus
The context of the building of a civilized and democratic frameworks consistent with the contemporary world's evolving needs to be national players and free and without a shred ideological trying to reality shows and other issues, may be in the direction of running a national moral sincerity. Today, frankly, we find from our erudite national Kutqbh complete sincerity, in turn, assured cash,

Unknown thieves

Sattar Awad *
* Combining future Iraq
After the bitterness of living in exile, which did not last long because of the big change witnessed by the Republic of Iraq to remove fear and terror. Back home in the first days that followed the fall of Saddam and the scene was tragic Although begin seeing images of a tyrant is tainted with mud and statues that were dropped masses. The scene is tragic and painful to watch some feeble stealing state institutions.

Three of only three اتتحقق

Ghazi al-Jabouri
Since the establishment of the first countries in history and intellectuals seeking to find effective solutions to the problems faced in various aspects of life, first and foremost to achieve security and stability, unity and independence ... Many of them have been able to reach an innovative ideas in this area but the application on the ground and faced many obstacles because it threatens the illegitimate interests of a number of the greedy and evil.

When unite Iraqis on the draft love?

Mkashvat.
D. Syahruddin beautiful
* Iraqi thinker
From the front, and to the Iraqi parties, groups and bodies and houses, and the masses of teams and communities and the monotony and bees. ? Hundreds of Iraqis being slaughtered every day and others hugged this review Trick rift with Iraq in return for insisting on survival. Delete that some of the contemporary history of Iraq and the whole burn all his cards and pages had no national history in Iraq?

Protectors of corruption!

Good morning.
Jihad Zair
Doubted the integrity of that article 136 of the Code of State officials disciplined force, selfishness does not allow staff to refer to the court for prosecution for crimes or violations, except with the consent of the competent minister, The body said that the article had become an obstacle to the prosecution of the corrupt and corruptors, because it has become the refuge for corrupt as a shelter from the reach of the law,

The physical dimension of the identity of the Iraqi

Ahmed Saadawi
The television, referring to fears about the seriousness of the collapse of the famous hunchback beacon in Mosul, due to humidity and neglect, these distortions and increasing the famous Lighthouse, which was reminiscent of many Burg Al pizza italics. If this is the reason inclination famous, it was not long preamble of the collapse of the future, and the collapse of an important historical legacy, proud of the city of Mosul, as cherished by the whole of Iraq.

Iraq, Afghanistan Fail in U.S.-Compiled Democracy Rankings

By Brendan Murray

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan for a third straight year received failing grades in key measures of democratic rule on a score-card of poor nations compiled by the Bush administration.

The Millennium Challenge Corp., an agency President George W. Bush established in 2004 to distribute aid, said in reports released today that Iraq and Afghanistan failed their 2007 assessments in six categories of ``ruling justly:'' political rights, civil liberties, control of corruption, government effectiveness, rule of law and accountability.

Bush is attempting to maintain and bolster public support for the continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the MCC reports show that progress in the two countries is incremental.

``Democracy-building is a process and it requires intelligent investments, political commitment and time,'' said Christopher Walker, director of studies at Freedom House, a Washington-based nonprofit group that contributed data to the rankings. ``Expectations of quick changes in any number of countries are really unrealistic.''

For now, the rankings won't have an impact on the U.S. relationship with Iraq and Afghanistan, which already get billions in military, humanitarian and other forms of aid.

Some signs of success are reflected in the report. In 10 other categories used in the rankings, ranging from immunization rates to inflation, Iraq passed two in fiscal 2005, two in 2006 and four in the 2007 report, according to the MCC. Afghanistan passed 1 category in 2005, four in 2006 and four in the most recent report for 2007.
Time

``Given the preceding decades of violence and political repression in Iraq and Afghanistan, it will undoubtedly take an enormous period of time to advance democratic development in these countries,'' Walker said in a telephone interview from Freedom House's New York office.

The MCC's reports are used to help decide which countries are eligible for grants under a program designed to provide incentives for better governance. The U.S. House and Senate have tentatively approved about $2 billion for the fund in 2007.

The MCC reports grade countries based on data from the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and Freedom House, which gets three-quarters of its funding from the U.S. government. Countries got failing grade if they ranked below the median score of 98 nations in each category.

Other countries that failed all measures in ``ruling justly'' for 2007 include Sudan, which passed five of 16 total categories; Iran, which passed four; Haiti, which passed three; and Serbia and North Korea, each of which passed two. Somalia passed none.

Poor nations that passed the just rule rankings include Bolivia, Honduras, India, Georgia and Nicaragua.

In statements accompanying the reports, the MCC said its strategy of giving aid based on the recipient country's governance policies is helping improve the institutions of democracy in impoverished and poorly managed countries. Since last year, for example, the median score in the ``days to start a business'' category has fallen to 33 days from 41. Countries eligible for MCC assistance are also scoring better on reducing corruption, it said.
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

In a nutshell . . .its bad, but its not that bad . . .but getting better

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/
(When you go to site, on the left side look for local sports!)

{Even with all the violence, they still get out and compete!}

The youth team will leave for Doha
Baghdad - just Attabi
Leaves Baghdad on the way to Doha delegation youth team to a training camp there before going to India to participate in the finals of Youth Asia, which starts in two weeks. Although the team did not get a real opportunity for a training camp in one of the joint which date prior to participating in the finals, the Captain Abdul Elah

Maliki is the support Ariyadhuariyadien

Baghdad-Sabah
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki continued support for sport and Iraqi athletes to raise the name of Iraq and ensuring a permanent presence in international forums. This came during his meeting yesterday with the delegation of the Iraqi National Olympic Committee and head of the Iraqi rulers and assistant national team coach, graduated to the finals of the Asian Football league.

Ideas at the Wall of China

Sports stations
Kazem Al-Taee
Settled our team and win the cards qualify for the finals of the Asian Nations, which will be held next year in the four countries and arrested the controversy that dominated sports street on the ability of the Group's future and in order not to be Tahlena less risky and must address a number of errors that were about to storm the task of the team in the playoffs and the first of these problems failing to deal properly with the ball fixed liabilities entered

Championship quartet of local teams to be established in Jordan

Baghdad-Mustafa Nuri Masire
Championship quartet of local teams to be established in Jordan, said coach Thaer Ahmed Club coach, it is hoped that students participating in the championship Quartet, which was held late October of this in the Jordanian capital of Amman on the stadium, King Abdullah II, and the championship includes four teams observed

Iraqis trained in the Syrian League pitcher

Ihsan Al-Marsoumy
Hired four clubs Republic, which plays in the limelight Syrian hate basketball services of four of Madrbina Sallouien Mohammed Najjar Club, which trains jump in the city of Homs, Ahmed Fadel, who trains in the Yarmouk Club

Coach : Dr. Al Zawra. Saleh Radi : Competitors in the new camp and the team's internal home stretch

Baghdad-Mohammed Nasser
Zawra today is not yesterday's migration stars Zora is a salient feature is not in this group, but also in the various local clubs and the Libyan specifically. But witness the performance of the players Zawra Youth Championship in the youth soccer Jordan felt reassured on this team's name and history major .
And at the local level continue his training team has won a high level in most of the meetings, which means the pilot

Younis Mahmoud

Just Attabi
Heartened our team win the national Singaporean counterpart on the issuance of all of those and not those of the national unity in Iraq. This has coincided with a winning long wait to qualify for the finals in Asia. It started losing our team back to Singapore with two goals and ended in a tie last meeting with Palestine two goals.
Although Singapore does not record the position advanced in football at the World Bank or not

Jassim head of the Academy and generates in Iraq

Baghdad-Nabil Al-Zubaydi
Jassim received the Vice President of the Iraqi objects to build a congratulatory telegram from President Fahim just before the two Egyptian and African Deputy President of the International Federation of bodybuilding, chairman of the Academy and generates global culture of sports (Middle East and Africa), on the occasion of the month of Ramadan and near the solutions

Haider Azzam : Sastthmer good chance with the smart to wear the national team Vanilh

Baghdad-Mustafa Nuri Masire
It proves that it's good strikes distinct vertical and has a huge capacity to scoring. Haider Azzam attacker strongly for the next lights, for wearing smart Vanilh seeks to provide optimal bid. The fact that the qualifications of a much greater age. We had this dialogue with him.

Designation sure black coach of the team officially Kirkuk Korea

Kirkuk-Sabah
Nominated administrative body Club Kirkuk Korea Captain sure black coach of the team Kirkuk participating in the league championship Iraqi excellent in the northern group. He said a member of the administrative board of the Club, Mr. Jenkins, Kirkuk Yassin gave exclusive interview with Sabah sports and said "designated the administrative board of Kirkuk Sporting Club officially Captain confident black coach to train the team in the league Kirkuk Co Iraqi excellent.

Letter from Saddam says Iraq's 'liberation' at hand, urges end to bloodshed
By: The Canadian Press
at 16:23 on October 16, 2006, EST.


BAGHDAD (AP) - Gunmen killed the brother of the chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial Monday, as the ex-president called in an open letter for Iraqis to forgive their American enemies and stop sectarian killings because the country's "liberation is at hand"



The letter appeared to be an effort by Saddam to cast himself in the role of a statesman who could reconcile and rebuild a country now torn by intensifying sectarian bloodshed between Shiites and Sunnis, continuing attacks by Sunni insurgents and worsening economic problems.


Many Iraqis have come to believe that the United States has decided to begin pulling out of Iraq despite President George W. Bush's denials. And the letter seems to argue that the tide may be turning against U.S.-led foreign troops and the Shiite-dominated government they support.



"The hour of liberation is at hand, God willing. But remember that your near-term goal is confined to freeing your country from the forces of occupation and their followers, and not to be preoccupied in settling scores," Saddam wrote in the Arabic-language letter.



He signed it as "President and commander-in-chief of the holy warrior armed forces."



The letter, a copy of which was obtained in Jordan by The Associated Press, was dictated to his lawyers during a meeting over the weekend.



Court officials said Monday that a verdict and sentence would be handed down Nov. 5 in the first trial against Saddam, for the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from the town of Dujail after an assassination attempt against him in 1982.



Many fear the sentence, which is widely expected to be death by hanging, will further inflame sectarian animosities across Iraq, where Saddam remains popular among pockets of the once-dominant Sunni Arab minority.



The slaying of the brother of the top prosecutor in Saddam's second trial, Imad al-Faroon, added to the fears of sectarian violence. Al-Faroon was shot and killed in front of his wife at his home in Baghdad.



His brother is chief prosecutor Muqith al-Faroon, a Shiite overseeing the case against Saddam on charges of crimes against humanity for a military campaign that killed thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war.



There was no immediate word from law enforcement authorities about the killing or who might be responsible. Imad al-Faroon worked as a legal adviser to Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi exile who returned to a prominent position in the early days after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam.



Al-Faroon's slaying came less than three weeks after the fatal shooting of a brother-in-law of a judge in the genocide trial, which was to resume Tuesday.



Saddam said he resorted to a letter because "my chances to express my opinion are limited" in detention.



"It was only a few times that I managed to address you through the farcical, so-called trial when the microphones were not switched off," he said.



The judges in Saddam's two trials have repeatedly censured him, occasionally expelling him from the courtroom, for contempt of court and making political statements.



Saddam urged Shiites and Sunnis to set aside their differences and focus instead on driving U.S. forces out of Iraq. Expressing pain over sectarian fighting, he said "my heart fails me" over what he called foreigners' success in "sowing divisions among us."



Iraqis are "living the most difficult period in history because of the occupation, killing, destruction and looting," Saddam said, adding that he yearned for a "great unified Iraq, which is not split by any colour, segment or allegation."



He urged Sunnis to forgive their Iraqi opponents and also to forgive those who tracked down his two sons, Odai and Qussai, who were killed in a battle with American soldiers in the northern city of Mosul in 2003.



"You must show genuine forgiveness and put aside revenge over the spilled blood of your sons and brothers, including the sons of Saddam Hussein," he said.



Saddam also urged the Sunni-dominated insurgency to choose targets carefully, warning that they are alienating the Iraqi public by using excessive force.



Khalil al-Dulaimi, Saddam's chief lawyer, said the deposed leader dictated the letter during a four-hour meeting at a Baghdad detention centre Saturday.



Al-Dulaimi said they also discussed Saddam's two trials but he declined to be more specific about the talks, which were attended by Saddam's other lawyers, including former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark.
Lethbridge Herald

" I am Saddam, I can fix Iraq . . .let me out!!!"

Cheney: US forces winning support from Iraqis

US Vice President Dick Cheney told US soldiers newly returned from Iraq that they had built "bonds of friendship" with Iraqis that may help win the war.

"Having been on the ground, all of you know that we've made progress -- not easily, but steadily. And we can be confident going forward," he told thousands of soldiers of the storied 101st Airborne Division at their home base here.

With just 22 days before key November elections in which the unpopular war in Iraq may cost Republicans control of the US Congress, Cheney again rejected setting a precise timetable for bringing US forces home.

And, at a time when some US political leaders are worried about public opinion polls showing simmering Iraqi anger at the US occupation, Cheney said US soldiers were actually winning over Iraqi support.

"Members of our military have worked diligently to make sure that more Iraqi families have police protection, and electricity, and water, and sanitation for their homes," he said.

"By your openness and your decency, by your honor and your kindness to others in thousands of interactions, you've built bonds of friendship that are very important to our two countries," said Cheney.

As he spoke, soldiers rubbed gloved hands together and stamped their feet to keep warm in a steady drizzle of icy autumn rain that shined off an Apache helicopter and several armored vehicles armed with rocket launchers.

They cheered his appearance onstage but mostly kept quiet at the politically tinged lines in his speech -- like the refusal to set a withdrawal timetable -- and erupted in applause and cheers when he gave the distinguished flying cross to a helicopter pilot wounded in Iraq.

Most of the division returned from Iraq on September 25 after a year-long deployment. About 4,000 are still there.

Cheney later travelled to Louisville for a fundraiser expected to net more than 100,000 dollars for Republican Representative Geoff Davis and Kentucky Republicans in general.

In the run up to the November election, Cheney has done 114 events that have raised more than 40 million dollars for Republicans, according to Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt.

Print Story: Cheney: US forces winning support from Iraqis on Yahoo! News

Its a nice fluff piece . . .nice to see the og Dick out there on the GOP drum banging tour . . .I think he should carry his shotgun

Ya see . . .not all the news articles are bad on Iraq

Iraq insurgents say will only negotiate with US
Abu Khula: Today it is us and the Americans who are controlling the situation in Iraq.

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KIRKUK, 16 October 2006 (Middle East Online)

Masked nationalist insurgents in Iraq said they have begun talks with US forces, after a weekend meeting of Sunni tribal sheikhs called for the restoration of ousted leader Saddam Hussein.

In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi calling himself Abdel Rahman Abu Khula said his movement, a group of former Baath party officials and army officers known as the Islamic Army, would not meet the Iraqi government.

"In reality, we only negotiate with the ruling power in Iraq and that is the occupier," he said. "Today it is us and the Americans who are controlling the situation in Iraq."

A US military spokesman had no immediate comment on the claim, which cannot be independently verified.

Abu Khula said his group represents some 17 nationalist insurgent organizations, and is seeking the withdrawal of US forces and the release of detainees from US and Iraqi government prisons.

"The Americans have now decided to talk with us due to the escalation of our heroic deeds and the development of our explosives technology for use against their vehicles and bases," he claimed.

There have been repeated rumours about contacts between the Iraqi government or US forces and the more nationalist elements of the insurgency, but no US official has ever confirmed talks with armed Baathists.

Abu Khula was at pains to distance his group, which is made up of largely secular former regime elements, from Islamist insurgent outfits such as Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sunna, which are known for attacks targeting civilians.

"The brothers in Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sunna use explosions as part of their strategies," he said, claiming that Baathists and Saddamists are often wrongfully blamed for these atrocities.

"We do not target Iraqis, even their animals. We only target those with links to the foreigners and against Iraqis. We chop off their heads."

The leaders of many of the Sunni Arab tribes which met on Sunday also criticized Al-Qaeda and other religious groups for provoking divisions in the resistance and attacking members of their tribes.

In the past three years of insurgency against US-led forces, rifts have often appeared between elements of the resistance made up of the regime's former security apparatus and religiously-minded groups linked to Al-Qaeda.

The latest statements came in the wake of a coordinated bombing campaign targeting civilians in Kirkuk on Sunday, with suicide car bombs in a market and in front of a women's teaching college.

These disputes have occasionally broken out into open conflict between the two arms of the insurgency - something US military commanders are privately encouraged by.

In the western province of Al-Anbar, the hostility to Al-Qaeda linked groups erupted into a full scale tribal onslaught called the Anbar Awakening, which was hailed by the government.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a speech that another such tribal alliance could be expected imminently in another province.

The meeting of 500 tribal chiefs and representatives featured self-declared former Baath leaders who were less concerned with fighting Al-Qaeda than restoring their deposed president.

"This gathering is to unify the Arab tribes in the face of the occupation and its agents and to struggle against those who would divide the Iraqi people," said Abu Bassem, who said he was a Baath leader.

Supporters waved portraits of Saddam and called for his release, calling him the "legitimate" president.

Saddam himself appealed for the insurgency to be "just and fair" to the Iraqi people, in a note delivered by his lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi revealed on Monday.

"Resistance against the invaders is a right and a duty," he wrote. "Do not forget that your goal is to liberate your country from the invaders and their followers and is not a settling of accounts outside this goal."


Cheers!
DayDream

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

why does malikis presence alarm everyone all the time?? HE ISNT THE ONE WHO DECIDES, ENACTS, OR ANNOUNCES THE REVALUE!!!

Bingo SGS! When the FIL was passed Shabibi was given the power to set economic policy independent of parliament in addition to his current power of setting the currency rate. He's the one we have to be concerned with. Not to say that Maliki and parliament can't do things that will influnence Shabibi but he's our guy now.

Mike/OSW

how are ya? hop over to Marshal Plan thread when you get a chance, and give us your thoughts

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

Mike/OSW

how are ya? hop over to Marshal Plan thread when you get a chance, and give us your thoughts

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