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

Damn, how many posts do I have to make for becoming a Senior Member??

Originally Posted by kiko

Damn, how many posts do I have to make for becoming a Senior Member??

100 I think, can't remember, was too long ago! LOL.

I found this on an internet search apparently Iraq is a client of Montran (world leader in payment systems solutions)

Montran : Clients

Central Bank of Iraq is implementing Montran solution, comprising of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), Automated Clearing House (ACH) and Government Securities Registration Settlement (GSRS) systems, utilizing Java™ Enterprise (J2EE).

Originally Posted by MrsCK

Good Morningggggggggggggg - First I want to say "thanks ya'll" you kept my son Josh (senior this year) up late
Because at 4:45am (farm time zone) I look at my computer and see tons of windows open about Iraq, ya'll had him researching for news too - YA'LL ARE THE BEST!!!

Par77 - I sent this to my brother on 10/4/2006 this is the lowest I have seen it:

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

1 Iraqi Dinar = 0.0007124 US Dollar
1 US Dollar (USD) = 1403.80 Iraqi Dinar (IQD)

Learn about the new Iraqi Dinar
Median price = 0.0006538 / 0.0007124 (bid/ask)
Minimum price = 0.0006538 / 0.0007124
Maximum price = 0.0006538 / 0.0007124

Also the newsletter called Iraq Update was in my inbox - there was only EIGHT articules date 10/18 - were is the NEWS!!! none of the different news site are getting any new stuff the last couple of days - hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

RR - thanks for finding out about the 10,000 dinar - hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm when will they be handed out???? weird

Cross fingers today will give us some answers.

Interesting, the news site I use has had nothing today which is unheard of at this time.......

Originally Posted by Adster

Interesting, the news site I use has had nothing today which is unheard of at this time.......

Humm . . . this, I think, is the most interesting development / or non-development / of the current situation . . .

Could it be a *black-out*?? . . .

15 Oct Anniversary of the new dinar, (3 years)
The UN's World Investment Report is "under embargo" until 5:00pm GMT on 16 October. Focus of report is on emerging nations! 12 noon CST
16 - The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, tomorrow, Monday, results of the Central acceptance in universities and the Technical Education for the academic year 2006-2007.
16 oct may pass out debit cards DIDN'T HAPPEN
16 October Launch of World Investment Report 2006 Geneva, Switzerland
17 Oct. We get: 1. CBI website is down and has been for close to 24 hours now
2. Warka bank website is also down.
3. Bank of baghdad has pricing from 10-15-06
4. Major roads are closing down in the central part of Iraq business sector.
5. Chase bank as of this morning stopped selling dinar. (Chase bank owns bank of Iraq)
6. Minister of Oil has left to china, japan and australia to do what again?
17 oct. Iraq can pick up pay raise DIDN'T HAPPEN
17 -19 the 7-10 Day if correct grace period of FIL law
19 - ICI Document as updated will be presented to the Preparatory Group Members at the next PG meeting to be held on Oct 19 in Baghdad.
24 Oct End of Ramadan
24 Oct Eid al Fitr
30/31 Oct IAMB Meeting and ICBG to launch
29 November - 1 December Expert Meeting on the Participation of Developing Countries in New Dynamic Sectors of World Trade: Review of the Energy Sector
Geneva, Switzerland
30 Nov International Compact for Iraq signed
31 November deathline of development of a payment system through the Automatic Clearing House.
1 Jan Start of new fiscal year
22 Mar SBA expires

Also, some were in all this is the HyCarb. Law. If I have missed anything add to it. Thanks

Originally Posted by MrsCK

15 Oct Anniversary of the new dinar, (3 years)
The UN's World Investment Report is "under embargo" until 5:00pm GMT on 16 October. Focus of report is on emerging nations! 12 noon CST
16 - The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, tomorrow, Monday, results of the Central acceptance in universities and the Technical Education for the academic year 2006-2007.
16 oct may pass out debit cards DIDN'T HAPPEN
16 October Launch of World Investment Report 2006 Geneva, Switzerland
17 Oct. We get: 1. CBI website is down and has been for close to 24 hours now
2. Warka bank website is also down.
3. Bank of baghdad has pricing from 10-15-06
4. Major roads are closing down in the central part of Iraq business sector.
5. Chase bank as of this morning stopped selling dinar. (Chase bank owns bank of Iraq)
6. Minister of Oil has left to china, japan and australia to do what again?
17 oct. Iraq can pick up pay raise DIDN'T HAPPEN
17 -19 the 7-10 Day if correct grace period of FIL law
19 - ICI Document as updated will be presented to the Preparatory Group Members at the next PG meeting to be held on Oct 19 in Baghdad.
24 Oct End of Ramadan
24 Oct Eid al Fitr
30/31 Oct IAMB Meeting and ICBG to launch
29 November - 1 December Expert Meeting on the Participation of Developing Countries in New Dynamic Sectors of World Trade: Review of the Energy Sector
Geneva, Switzerland
30 Nov International Compact for Iraq signed
31 November deathline of development of a payment system through the Automatic Clearing House.
1 Jan Start of new fiscal year
22 Mar SBA expires

Also, some were in all this is the HyCarb. Law. If I have missed anything add to it. Thanks

I have seen a few posts yesterday and today saying that Chase owns the Bank of Iraqi! I remember reading an article about that said that Chase was investing heavily into the Bank of Iraqi, but have not seen any article saying that they had bought it.

Could someone post a link for me?

Also if anyone ones has any links to the Hydrocarbon law, I would really like to view that also.

Thanks

Originally Posted by RollsRoyce

Humm . . . this, I think, is the most interesting development / or non-development / of the current situation . . .

Could it be a *black-out*?? . . .

Hmmm, the site's been updated but no real article news.....

Iraq struggles to halt sectarian bloodbath
[15:33 , 18 Oct 2006]
BAGHDAD (AFP)

PNA-Iraq's beleaguered government struggled to assert its battered authority, purging the police force and sending troops into a town reeling from a four-day sectarian bloodbath.

The US military said Iraqi and American troops were restoring order in the town of Balad and the killing fields around, a region convulsed by the random slaughter of civilians by rival Sunni and Shiite death squads.

"The violence began when 19 Shia were kidnapped and killed Friday in Al-Dhuluiyah, east of Balad. The following day, more than 38 Sunnis were killed in retaliation," the US military said in a statement.

"The city has been hit with five indirect fire attacks, killing six civilians and wounding 10," it added, referring to mortar fire.

Malik Laftah, the head of Balad city council, told AFP many corpses were still lying in the streets and that 17 mortar shells had hit the city limits Tuesday, indicating the final toll could be higher.

"No one dares to move around and the Mahdi Army is controlling the town," he said, referring to the powerful militia loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been accused of taking part in the attacks.

The coalition insisted, however, that US and Iraqi government forces were now in control, having decreed a vehicle curfew and set up checkpoints to prevent Shiite and Sunni gangs from continuing the slaughter.

"We continue to conduct our normal patrols in the city and provide support for Iraqi security forces as they lead operations in stopping the sectarian violence in Balad," said US army Lieutenant Colonel Jeffery Martindale.

Martindale also, however, confirmed that two Iraqi police officers had been arrested for taking part in the massacre which triggered the orgy of violence.

Iraqi police are often accused of collaborating with illegal militia, and on Tuesday the interior ministry announced that it was to reorganize the force.

Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told reporters that 1,228 officers had been sacked for breaking the law while nearly 2,000 more were purged from the ranks for dereliction of duty.

The National Police was hastily thrown together to address security shortages and is notorious for being infiltrated by the very Shiite militias which US commanders now say are the biggest threat to Iraq's stability.

"The government is determined to fight the armed groups by all political or military means," the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said.

"It will not hesitate to strike whoever tries to violate the security of the country and threaten the civil peace," the statement added.

Maliki's restatement of a long-standing promise came amid mounting concern among his backers in the United States that his government has failed to rise to the challenge posed by the militias and their political sponsors.

"There is more to be done," said White House spokesman Tony Snow on Monday.

"The violence level is absolutely unacceptable and it is important to make progress," he said while stressing, however, that President George W. Bush "believes the prime minister is doing everything in his power to do it".

The next challenge to Maliki's authority could come from Sadr's movement, which reacted with fury Tuesday to the arrest of one of its most important precinct captains, allegedly by US forces.

"US forces raided the home of Sheikh Mazen al-Saedi, head of the Sadr movement offices in Karkh (west Baghdad) and arrested him," Hamdallah al-Rikabi, a spokesman for Sadr's movement, told AFP.

"Five other members of the office were arrested as well in a series of raids in Shuala," he said, referring to a Shiite neighborhood in northeast Baghdad.

"Sadr's office is preparing for an official massive demonstration tomorrow in Karkh in which schools and some government departments will be involved."

The US military would not directly confirm Saedi's arrest, but issued a statement saying that American advisers and Iraqi special forces had "captured the alleged leader of a murder and kidnapping cell."

"The cell leader is suspected of directing the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Sunni and Shiite Iraqi citizens in Baghdad and has connections to illegal armed groups there," the statement said.

Insurgents detonated a suicide car bomb in the southern Baghdad suburb of Saidiyah, killing two National Police commandos and wounding nine people.

A mortar shell crashed into Wathiq Square in Baghdad's middle-class Karrada neighbourhood, killing three people including a policeman and wounding seven more, a security official said.

In the southern city of Basra, gynaecologist Dr Youssra Hashem became the latest female professional to be killed amid a rise in violence against women by conservative Muslim factions, health spokesman Kadhim Jawad said.

Four university students were also gunned down, Basra police said.

Police also found 30 corpses in and around Baghdad late Tuesday.

(Voice of Iraq) - 10-18-2006 | This issue was sent to a friend

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