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

If this has been posted delete please - but RV ALREADY!! TO HELP IRAQIS

Number of needy Iraqis surges
By Ikhlas Majeed
17 October 2006 (Azzaman)

The number of vulnerable Iraqis is increasing at alarming rates while allocations to meet their needs are limited, according to Labor and Social Security Minister Mahmoud Sheikh Radhi.

The minister said the increasing number of families forced to leave their homes amid the upsurge in sectarian violence was putting further strains on his ministry’s budget.

He said more than a million Iraqi families are entitled to social security benefits mainly due to high unemployment and forced evacuations.

Radhi said his ministry was still using a social security law passed under former leader Saddam Hussein as a basis for the distribution of social benefits.

But he said the 2006 budget which allocated half a billion dinars for his ministry (approx. $330 million) did not take into account the number of Iraqi families in need of social benefits.

He said if he went by the sum each Iraqi family was supposed to get every month, many of them would go hungry.

He said he feared the ministry may not be able to meet the ceilings it has set for the benefits.

“Simple mathematics make it impossible to meet the needs as the allocations would give each family 40,000 dinars (approx. $25) a month, regardless of its size,” he said.

In this case, he added, a family of 12 would have to live on less than on dollar a day.

Radhi said this year as many as 27,000 families forced to flee their homes have been added to the growing list of the beneficiaries.

The ministry is one of the most active in Iraq as its activities now cover one of almost every four Iraqis.

Radhi said paying benefits would not help the families in the long run, adding the ministry was considering ways of putting them to work.

“We have built a new fund to extend interest free loans to families willing to start their own businesses,” he said.

Radhi said initially he hoped to start up 100 such projects in the hope of employing 250,000 Iraqis.

“We have asked the government to deposit $700 million in the new fund,” he said.

Hhmmmmmmmmm......




Panel 'to urge Iraq policy shift'
US forces attend a memorial service for fallen colleagues
US casualties are increasing the political pressure for change
High-level White House advisers are said to be ready to call for a major change in Washington's policy on Iraq.

Members of the panel, which is led by former US Secretary of State James Baker, told the LA Times the shift could include large troop withdrawals.

A senior US official reaffirmed Washington's support for Iraq's leaders but said they must increasingly assume responsibility for security.

The Iraq situation is a key issue in November's US mid-term elections.

"There's got to be another way," is how one member of the Iraq panel summed up their views on the situation in Iraq and the failure of current US policy, according to the LA Times.

Invitation to help

Mr Baker's commission, which is due to report in the next few months, is set to recommend significant change, and will advise against "staying the course".


There needs to be over time steady assumption of increasing responsibility by the Iraqis for their own future - I don't think anybody disagrees with that
Robert Kimmitt
US Deputy Treasury Secretary

The bipartisan task force, which was asked by the US Congress to examine the effectiveness of American policy in Iraq, has reportedly been looking at two options, both of which would amount to a reversal of the Bush administration's stance.

One is the phased withdrawal of US troops, the other is to invite Syria and Iran to come into Iraq to help stop the fighting.

Mr Baker, who was secretary of state under President George Bush, the current president's father, has so far stressed that the panel has not come to a definitive conclusion.

But he has indicated the direction of the panel's thinking in recent television interviews.

"Our commission believes that there are alternatives between the stated alternatives, the ones that are out there in the political debate of 'stay the course' and 'cut and run,'" he told ABC News recently.

'No deadline'

On Monday, President George W Bush called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to reaffirm his full support for the Iraqi government.

US troops inspect the scene of a bombing on 15 October
October has seen another surge in violence

White House spokesman Tony Snow said Mr Bush had urged Mr Maliki to ignore rumours that Washington had set a deadline for the Iraqi government to control the activities of insurgents.

Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt has also stressed that the US government strongly supports Mr Maliki's strategy.

"Mr Maliki said first...there has to be improvement in the security situation, violence is absolutely unacceptable. Secondly, there has to be political reconciliation, and third there must be economic development... they're all inter-related," he told the BBC on Tuesday.

But he also said it was clear that the Iraqis must increasingly take control of security.

" I think... what my former boss, Jim Baker, said is that there needs to be over time steady assumption of increasingly responsibility by the Iraqis for their own future. I don't think anybody disagrees with that," Mr Kimmitt said.

As the key 7 November mid-term elections near, opinion polls have indicated growing public discontent with the Iraq war, a discontent that could have a significant impact on the election outcomes.

BBC News website world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds says the panel's findings could be the peg on which a shift of approach is hung.

Since the March 2003 invasion, some 2,761 US military personnel have died in Iraq.

The records at the dnsserver was updated the 17th. If you do an nslookup at the dnsserver that holds the domain it comes up with that the ipaddress of
www.cbiraq.org is 64.202.189.130. That one is unreachable at the moment

Originally Posted by 2shoes

This may have been overlooked. This server was updated on Oct. 17, 06
1. The update went bad.
2. They are waiting on a news release about r/v.

I personnally like #2 the best.

I think I would have to disagree with that. It's not the server that was updated on 17 october... It's the Whois Registry entry that was updated. The Domain Name Registrar has no idea, nor does it care, when the host server of any site updates itself.

Maybe this is what you meant, and if so, I apologize. I just think people are making something out of nothing with this whole CBI site being down. The DNS is down. They wouldn't take the site down just to update it... Unless they had absolutely no clue what they were doing. I update websites all the time, and we never take down a site, unless we absolutely have to. And even then, it is not taken down for longer than 10-15 minutes. We create a back-up of the current site, so that when we load up the new one, if there's a problem, we can simply revert back to the original, until we figure out what went wrong. I realize that CBI may not have all their ducks in a row, but I can not imagine that they are THAT slow on the up-take with regards to how to update a site. I don't think that has anything to do with anything.

As others have said, and I now repeat, I think it's nothing more than a DNS issue, which may or may not be related to the shutting down the street that CBI resides. And I think the point you brought up is merely referring to the updating of the Registrar's records, and not the web server.

sooooo aka we still dont know were all on stand by to quit our job and partyy and start liven in fast forward

or they are making it look like a DNS problem so not to spred speculation R/V BABY

Do I hear a WOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT from our Alaskan friend?!


Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil, This is why we are going to make it !!
"Iraq has more oil fields that have been discovered, but not developed, than any other country in the world." British-based analyst Mohammad Al-Gallani told the Canadian Press that of 526 prospective drilling sites, just 125 have been opened.

Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil | Iraq Updates

Thanks Webguy,
I don't do anything with web sites, so it's always nice to have someone that knows. But here's a question, I can ping the IP address and get a reply, so is the server up, but just not open for the world to see?
Thanks,
2 shoes

wooooooooooooooooooooottttt

Just a server issue guys, really don't think it's our r/v just yet.