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3000 Iraqi policemen dismissed
19 October 2006 (Asharq Alawsat)
The ministry of interior has dismissed more than 3,000 officers for a range of violations, ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf announced at a press conference yesterday. The sackings are part of a restructuring process currently taking place in the ministry. More than 1,200 policemen were dismissed for criminal acts such as forgery, human rights abuses and negligence.

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Originally Posted by bigjase1

2007 oz 2006 please would be nice lol

just went back and fixed it . . .rest assurred it was 2006 in the email I sent

I just looked just to be sure . . .whata dumb arse typo that was

19 October 2006 (AFP)

Iraq's newly-minted army will be ready to take over the security of the war-torn state from US and allied troops by late next year or early 2008, Iraq's oil minister said during a visit to Australia.

However, the Australian government, under growing pressure to pull out its troops soon, said the timetable was "optimistic", and pledged to keep forces in Iraq until the Iraqi military could handle security by itself.

During the first visit to the country by a member of the US-backed Iraqi cabinet, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said it would not take years for foreign troops to be able to withdraw from the conflict.

"Almost half of the country now is almost totally under the control of the Iraqi forces," he told reporters, as violence escalated further in Iraq's civil war.

"The other half, we are planning by the end of 2007, perhaps 2008, to have sufficiently trained and equipped Iraqi forces to take over responsibility."

But Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, described Shahristani's prediction of a timetable for Iraqi forces to take full control of their country as "optimistic."

"The sooner they're able to do it the better, of course," he told the Australian Associated Press.

"We're not putting a timeframe on it, we're just going to depend on how the capabilities of the Iraqi troops develop."

Governments, including in the United States, Britain and Australia, are coming under growing pressure to pull out of Iraq.

"Until we finish building our own forces, we expect multinational forces to stay and help in building the Iraqi forces," the Iraqi minister said in the Australian capital.

Australia, which has closely allied itself with the US war against terror, has 1,300 troops in and near Iraq, but Canberra is coming under mounting pressure to change its stance on the US-led occupation.

Prime Minister John Howard faced an opposition-tabled censure motion in parliament Wednesday, lashing him for bringing Australia into the war three years ago, just as the US is reportedly examining exit strategies.

Howard took a verbal beating during the debate of the motion, which was defeated along party lines, but insisted that a quick coalition withdrawal from Iraq would give a propaganda boost to global terrorist recruitment.

"A humiliation for America, a premature retreat by the coalition in Iraq, would deliver an enormous propaganda victory to terrorists," Howard said. "They would use that and they would use it close to Australia," he warned.

Australia's opposition Labor party is calling for an immediately withdrawal from Iraq, saying Canberra's involvement in the war has already made it a terror target.

The prime minister said he accepted responsibility for sending Australian troops to Iraq, but added he remained convinced it was the correct decision.


Iraqi troops ready for full security role by late 2007: minister | Iraq Updates

Originally Posted by MrsCK

Instead of pulling your hair out - please use the Max size font on this - then they may finallllllllllllly get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey..I tried... :) ez

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The Organization of the Islamic Conference : «» Mecca document does not contain a controversy or otherwise

The signing of the document in the hall overlooking the Kaaba

Jeddah : Majid Kinani
The Organization of the Islamic Conference that the document Mecca, which will be signed by year Shiagh Iraq and the vicinity of the Holy Mosque at the Palais des son today does not include any matter in controversy or controversial at all. He emphasized that a large number of religious leaders would participate in this meeting.
The organization said in a statement distributed yesterday during a friendly meeting with reporters gathering officials in the city of Jeddah «delegates arrive in Saudi Arabia today, We expect that involved a number of senior religious leaders and Muslim scholars in Iraq », He pointed out that whenever the authorities and scientists represent the highest impact was on the recipients and those concerned with this issue more influential and more porous, stressing that the turnout will determine the success rate.

He added : «we have received a lot of assurances in this regard to confirm attendance, The document, which was announced in the first instance with everyone's approval and actually endorsing full because it does not include any orders or otherwise controversial ever, we are optimistic ».

The organization indicated that the meeting would not take place when the Magistrate any negotiations or discussions, but the signing of the document, which examined and approved last week in Jeddah.

The Ambassador Mehdi Fathallah Director of the Political Department of the organization «that is also expected that there will be some discussions, deliberations, two Ithauran, He pointed out that the determination of the organization to be held in the vicinity of the timing of the House of God came to the Maghazi and religious purposes, to give the matter more importance and the impact of the largest ».

For his part, Ambassador Izzat Mufti, Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization that this meeting for religious and not political solution to end the bloodbath witnessed daily in Iraq, He pointed out that the organization is optimistic this meeting up.

In the same context, the organization said in a statement «that the initiative is limited to the bloody sectarian conflict to extinguish Jmerth, given that this conflict with its religious background is often more violent and bloody conflicts and if we are able to deal with how we have contributed meaningfully to defuse the sectarian conflict suffered by Iraq today ».

And the fact that this initiative means conciliation among the Iraqi statement said «it is not the initiative of reconciliation even harder given eventually to stop sectarian fighting between the Iraqis, The initiative is not a debate, The conference and symposium and uncontroversial not Vmdaha substantive negotiations aimed at stopping the fighting sectarian and religious background to the Foundation a unified Islamic based on the texts of the Holy Koran and general terms and Nabih year and by the nation Bmzahbha different from the Shiites and Sunnites. agreement on the sanctity of Muslim blood and the sanctity of the Muslim killing oneself Masumeh and avoid the shedding of innocent blood, where meets all these ideas in a document »Mecca.

«The statement continued that the issue is not an issue of reconciliation is a special occasion for the religious tenets of this year, the university senior religious leaders and Muslim scholars and will be a poignant witness people to inform them of God's rule and the rule of Islam in the murder conviction and an offense that is wrong and issued from the vicinity of the House of God in this Shah R. Karim ».

And what mechanism contained in the initiative «statement said that the initiative is based on a mechanism that will be distributed this Aristocracy» «document as widely as possible in Iraq and through the blessing and support of the religious leaders publicly and broadcast and disseminated through the media and taken rule of meetings and events, Friday sermons and mosques» .

Al «» Middle East that the document Mecca which will be signed by scientists Sunnis and Shiites today near Makkah consisting of 10 items inclusive of all the elements of sedition in Iraq and focus on the rejection of violence and prohibits the killing of innocent people and forbidding raided mosques and the killing of the congregation and the call to unity and solidarity and work to end the American occupation of Lara Requests and advocated that the Iraqi nation and one had lived together Mthabh addition to reject sectarianism and also deprived of incitement and calls to murder all forms of direct and indirect.

The document stressed the bloodshed in Iraq and the prevention of incitement and calls all conducive to that.

It was planned to include the meeting today, Friday, which Sihatdhanh Palace son near Makkah, which starts after the prayer reading of the verses from the Holy Quran followed the Secretary-General of the organization Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu word, after reading to be a Mecca and signed by the participants in the hall overlooking the Kaaba and then read some of the letters received by the Organization for the support and blessing of prominent religious leaders of the Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites, the meeting concluded with a press conference convened by Secretary of the organization and with a spokesman for the Shiites of Iraq and another for years in Iraq.
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we all do it at some point

i have my girlfriend breathing down my neck and points out wen i make mistakes lol

Originally Posted by nventr

The engineer in me makes me do this. Quite often we see comments stating that moving the decimal point 3 to the left gives us a rate of $1.47=1 IRD. That is flawed math. Moving the decimal point would yield 1.47 IRD= $1.00. This would then read $0.68 = 1 IRD. Still a very good number. My family has in the mid 8 figures of dinars and I can handle that math.

Well I wouldn't argue with .68 and you may very well be right but I still call to memory the MOF calling for the former level and then he say 148 dinar plus speaks of lifting three zeros. When you consider it is fils from which he is referencing I believe the 1.48 is the more correct take. how they get there is another story, it can happen to ways.....peg and float or straight peg.



There is another older article that together with the more recent comments of the MOF seem to bring to fullness the idea. In any case We'll take .68 but we will like 1.48 better.....


One more interesting thought also floating around was brought by 2bmore and a reference to the SDR and .68 of that which brings parity with the Dollar 1:1 but then again the Iraqis also call 3.22 parity and I'm not saying I understand that but they did display it. So it is an interesting speculation and I love them all. but I'm in the buck and half camp.

19 October 2006 (Al-Sabaah)

The administration of Iraqi economic is characterized by arbitrary, improvisation and quick decision-making without prior or thorough study, in addition to the individual decisions that were prevalent on the Iraqi economic decision. That is to say, the Iraqi administration was not proper at all for the reasons mentioned above. This was negatively reflected on how to use and allocate the resources, as well as on diversifying the sources of national income, which reached a very disturbing level being a one-sided economy, totally dependent on the production and export of one raw material which is oil. This issue raises matters of a strategic nature concerning the future. For three decades, our society had been militarized and oil resources were exploited to serve the requirements of wars. This inflicted Tyranny and deprivation upon people and led to the creation of a distorted economy, characterized by being one- sided, totally depending on the production and export of crude oil with the fact that crude oil prices are linked to external parties. Thus, the Iraqi economy was simultaneously affected by internal and external variables. It was, also, not based on new and alternative sources of national income; although, Iraq is a country where all resources are available and has the potential to create a balanced economy between all sectors.

The most prominent indicators of economic mismanagement in Iraq are:

1) national and per capita income: since 1974 till 1982 Iraq was of a middle-sized economy according to the average standard of the International Bank. The per capita income was estimated by (3600) dollars a year, and Iraq was eligible to become one of the new industrial countries, but because of the unjustified wars waged by the former Iraqi regime, the per-capita income has decreased to ($ 900 a year), and after its fall of the Principles in April 2003 it reached ($ 600 a year), at a decline of (6) times what it was in the past. So, you can imagine the magnitude of the disaster and the extent of decline and deterioration which happened in the standard of living of the Iraqi individual.

2) Cash reserve: The cash reserve in the Iraqi Central Bank during the early 1980s was (40 billion dollars). After the fall of the ex- regime on April 9, 2003 Iraq did not possess anything called cash reserve, while its debts reached ($ 120 billion).

3) The volume of production: the rate of growth of the Iraqi national production dropped to (12%) in the early 1980s which is a relatively high rate according to the standards of growth in the developing countries. It declined after the events of April 9, 2003 to 4.5% in 2004 but it rose slightly to 5.5% in 2005 and, in fact, this is a matter of concern and should be thoroughly studied. In addition, there were the effects of the economic embargo imposed on the country for the period (1991 2003), which turned Iraqis into beggars in all countries of the world, especially neighboring countries. Also, the standard of living of the individual has decreased and the middle class in society was shattering that (60%) of the people were living under the poverty line as well as the decline of the levels of education, health and services after there was a middle class in Iraq, advanced education and good health services. Now, there is only deteriorating levels of services like water, electricity and others.
All these reasons made the Iraqi economy in general a subject to the program of the oil-for-food and medicine in 1996.

Therefore, economic and financial policies were subjected to this program that the United Nations seizes oil revenues into the Development Fund for Iraq, DFI, which was established under the Security Council's Resolution No. 1483 in 2003 and there was no financial source for the State, while the final decision was in the hand of the international organization. This led to the emergence of a new class called (the program class) where Iraqi contractors inside and outside Iraq have become middlemen to attract suppliers and foreign companies from abroad in return for commissions shared with government agencies which doubled the cost or more and that resulted in a new dimension of administrative and financial corruption called the international dimension i.e. international parties, some were political, were participating in the game, so the contracts were awarded to the States standing with the Iraqi government, by then, in lifting the sanctions. In reviewing the list of this program, which amounted to (80 billion dollars) during the period 1996 2003, we find that there are countries and companies in the forefront, for example, (Russia, France, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and others), which announced a firm position and gave a pledge to Iraq. This would point out that the Iraqi wealth has been squandered in a non-supervised way (States, institutions, popular control). As for the supervision of the United Nations, it was infiltrated and corrupt. According to the recently released report named (Volcker), (Benion) was accused along with others and many Iraqi lists emerged known as oil coupons but in fact they were only commissions. It is a wonder, that an oil State such as Iraq possessing the second biggest oil reserve after Saudi Arabia, that is (11%) of the total reserves of the world, and yet needs middlemen to sell its oil?! So the whole process was used for political purposes, whether the agents were Iraqis, Arabs or foreigners. Thus, the wealth of Iraq was wasted is a horrific way beyond imagination through the program of oil-for-food and medicine, which was the largest program administered by the United Nations since its foundation in 1945.

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Jordanian talks on the Iraqi facilities for Iraqis residing in Jordan


Oman : Mohamed Aldamh the two sides, headed by the Jordanian Minister of Interior Eid Minster and the Iraqi chairmanship of Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al-Hashmi a talks dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of strengthening them in various fields. The Minster said that the Jordanian government is working to provide all facilities to Iraqis living in the country and on its borders, He also stressed that there must be coordination with the Iraqis in high-security areas. On the Iraqi students enrolled in universities and colleges between the minister that they could easily enter the Jordan provided to make sure they have at the acceptance of the universities and institutes, It also allows for the sons of the Iraqi married to Ardnyat from entering schools. Later in the Hashemite left Amman to return to his country.
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19 October 2006 (Kyodo News)

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani will make a three-day visit to Japan from Sunday at the invitation of the Japanese government, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Katsuhito Asano said Thursday.
"Until now, our country has made efforts to attain stability in Iraq's civil affairs through various means such as humanitarian and reconstruction aid by the Self-Defense Forces and assistance via official development assistance," Asano said at a news conference.

"From now on, we believe it is necessary to build a strategic, long-term partnership with Iraq, which boasts the third-largest crude oil deposits in the world, and the oil minister's visit is the first step toward building a new Japan-Iraq reciprocal relationship," he said.

The Iraqi minister is scheduled to meet with Japanese government officials and exchange views on ways to reinforce bilateral cooperation in the field of oil and natural gas as well as on the political and economic situation in Iraq, Japanese officials said.

Iraqi oil minister to visit Japan Oct. 22-24 | Iraq Updates