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

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Originally Posted by winner

sorry brain but that's a new bs speculation wich will bring us again 500 articles to this tread like that one when the site was down.
all we can read here is merely speculation and not more.
when please want u all think before u tip in something wich u suck out of ur fingers?

sorry again. but my language is german, not english (what u all just can see now). i have never learnd ur language and it's very hard to try to find here some realy urgent news between all the bs. it needs many hours a day. but i have to do it.
so please stop!!!! to tip the bs and start to read or allmost tipe some realy interesting infos.
thanks

Originally Posted by *CLEO*

This site doesn't show any information at all - it's just showing the intro page and does now allow you to enter the domain

i have just clicked onto the link from ur quote and it works

Originally Posted by Treater

Heres what I think, shut the streets down, lay the wires (obviously the computers are gonna have to be shut down, hence no cbiraq.org for a few days). In the mean time give the bank employees a few refresher courses (don't wanna be bothered by phone calls, people are trying to learn here.) Weekend hits, bank clears out, along comes the IT crews to get all this wiring in place, new servers up and running smooth, and programs updated/installed (hence cbi comes back online tests are preformed, software is tested, ect) and thats where we are at now. "Restucturing" has to be more than a mere word, Sunday morning workers are introduced to the new system, maybe everything changes from there, or maybe they get a week to get used to it before the "real deal".

I agree, remember popadinar found Kuwait had no auctions for 5 days when they rv'd, we'll cbi web was shut down, NO trading since 10/16 their closed today and saturday, don't open again till Sunday,
that would be 6 days no trading, I believe everything will be a go Sunday and RV before the EID..
Excuse me while I get a little excited

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Originally Posted by Vipor

<== Huh??

AFLAC! (sorry, couldn't help it)

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Sounds like you folks need to be distracted or maybe, just need some music!

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Originally Posted by *CLEO*

The whole point of this forum is for people to come on and share information (good or bad) and you need to make your own decision on how to take it.

yes, u'r right. share information (good or bad), not speculation which is sucked out of own fingers.
u all who have english as native can't understand the problem from a guy like me whou never learnd english. i'm sure i'm not the only one here in rc whou have the same problem. fore guys like me it's realy hard to read and try to find between all the bs the urgent informations.
so all i ask is, that members stop the bs and start to use the grey mass between the ears before writen something here. then fore guys like me it's much more easy to find the realy good or interesting or urgent news here.
thanks a lot.

Originally Posted by winner

yes, u'r right. share information (good or bad), not speculation which is sucked out of own fingers.
u all who have english as native can't understand the problem from a guy like me whou never learnd english. i'm sure i'm not the only one here in rc whou have the same problem. fore guys like me it's realy hard to read and try to find between all the bs the urgent informations.
so all i ask is, that members stop the bs and start to use the grey mass between the ears before writen something here. then fore guys like me it's much more easy to find the realy good or interesting or urgent news here.
thanks a lot.

If you want good info, then we need you to stop posting.

Al-Sadr's Shiite Militia Seizes Control of Southern Iraq City

Friday , October 20, 2006


Not good news for our friends. Per Fox News TV-still not under control

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Shiite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by the country's powerful, unofficial armies, witnesses and police said.

Mahdi Army fighters stormed three main police stations Friday morning, planting explosives that flattened the buildings, residents said.

About 800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were patrolling city streets in commandeered police vehicles, eyewitnesses said. Other fighters had set up roadblocks on routes into the city and sound trucks circulated telling residents to stay indoors.

CountryWatch: Iraq

The militiamen later withdrew from their positions and lifted their siege of police headquarters under a temporary truce negotiated with an al-Sadr envoy. It wasn't clear on Friday afternoon whether security forces had reasserted control over the city.

Al-Sadr's envoy, whose identity remains unknown, was due to meet with Maysan province Gov. Adil Mudher, local Mahdi Army commander Fadil al-Bahadli, and al-Sadr's representative in Amarah, Mohanad al-Moussawi.

The Iraqi army dispatched two companies to Amarah from Basra, the south's largest city, and a British officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements, said Iraqi army and police forces were massing to retake the city of 750,000.

Britain returned the city to Iraqi military control in August.

Authorities imposed Friday morning a curfew in Amarah until further notice, the Defense Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press.

"All the parties have started a truce as two army companies were dispatched from Basra." Mohammad al-Alaskari said." But the situation is still tense."

Shiite militia violence, mainly against the country's Sunni minority, has ravaged Iraq since February when a Shiite holy place in Samara was blown up. The violence has been on the increase, but this is the first recent fighting that has pitted Shiites against one another on such a scale.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dispatched an emergency security delegation that included the Minister of State for Security Affairs and top officials from the Interior and Defense ministries, said Yassin Majid, the prime minister's media adviser told the Associated Press. Al-Sadr representatives had rushed Amarah from the holy city of Najaf to the north.

Karim Khalaf, the Interior Ministry spokesman, told the Associated Press Iraqi security forces had reached the outskirts of the city.

At least 15 people, including five militiamen, one policeman and two bystanders, had been killed in clashes since Friday, Dr. Zamil Shia, director of Amarah's department of health, said by telephone from the city, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The fighting also wounded at least 59 people — 31 militiamen, six policemen and 22 civilians, including 3 children — according to Riyadh Saed, the duty physician at the city's main hospital.

The events in Amarah highlight the threat of wider violence between rival Shiite factions, who have entrenched themselves among the majority Shiite population and are blamed for killings of rival Sunnis.

Fighting broke out Thursday after Qassim al-Tamimi, the provincial head of police intelligence and a leading member of the rival Shiite Badr Brigade militia, was killed by a roadside bomb. In retaliation, his family kidnapped the teenage brother of the Mahdi Army commander in Amarah, Sheik Fadel al-Bahadli, to demand the hand-over of al-Tamimi's killers.

Khalaf, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said three people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of involvement in al-Tamimi's murder.

Amarah, a major population center in the resource-rich yet impoverished south, is a traditional center of Shiite defiance to successive Iraqi regimes. It's famed marshlands were drained by former dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1990s in reprisal for the city's role in the Shiite uprising that blazed through the region after the 1991 Gulf War.

The city lies along the Tigris river just 30 miles from the border with Iran, whose Shiite-controlled government is accused of backing Iraqi militia groups suspected of involvement in sectarian killings now wracking the country.

The showdown between the Mahdi and Badr militias has the potential to develop into an all-out conflict between the heavily armed groups and their political sponsors, both with large blocs in parliament and backers of al-Maliki's ruling coalition. It also could shatter the unity of Iraq's majority Shiites at a time when an enduring Sunni insurgency shows no signs of abating.

Badr and the Mahdi Army have struggled for years for control in the south, al-Sadr's political bloc, the so-called "Sadrists", and the Badr's backers, the SCIRI, both being members of al-Maliki's ruling coalition.

The fighting comes a day after the chief military spokesman in Iraq said a massive two-month-old security operation in Baghdad had failed to meet targets while the monthly death toll for American troops in October had climbed to 74, putting October on course to be the deadliest for U.S. forces in nearly two years.

"The violence is indeed disheartening," Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad.

Sunni insurgents battling U.S. forces to the north made a further show of force on Friday, with masked gunmen linked to the main Sunni insurgent group, the Mujahedeen Shura Council staging a military style parade through the cities of Haqlaniyah and Haditha in the western province of Anbar.

The gunmen urged residents to back an announcement by the group on Sunday that it has established an Islamic state made up of six provinces, including Baghdad.

That followed a similar demonstration Thursday by masked gunmen in Ramadi, a Sunni stronghold in Anbar, where U.S. forces have taken heavy losses against the insurgents.

The province's police chief was assassinated Thursday by gunmen who burst into his home in Ramadi.

Elsewhere, mortar attacks killed 10 people in the Iraqi city of Balad, where sectarian fighting between Sunnis and Shiites had already killed 95 people.

Gunmen shot and killed four men trapping hawks in the Balad Roz district, 55 miles northeast of Baghdad, said a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. The trapping of hawks for sale to trainers and hunters is common in Iraqi in the autumn months.

In Khalis, 13 miles east of Baqouba, a police patrol clashed early Friday with gunmen, killing three onlookers and wounding three others, he added.

Shiite backers of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group rallied in the sprawling Baghdad slum of Sadr city to mark a day of opposition to the state of Israel. Among the 600 participants were those carrying banners reading, "Israel is a cancer in the Arab nation's body." The slum is a stronghold of the Mahdi army militia.

Despite that show of support, a Baghdad residential complex housing Palestinians was attacked with mortars Thursday night, killing 4 men and injuring 11 other people, police Capt. Mohammed Abdul Ghani said