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

Health ministry allocates $100 M to build 10 hospitals
19/10/2006
Source: Al-Sabah


Minister of health, Ali al-Shamarii has said that his ministry will witness through last months of financing year and first months of coming year a sounding development in supplying medicines or supplying hospitals with equipments , in addition to build 10 hospitals in several provinces with the capacity of 400 beds each.

He showed that the ministry has the initial agreements to allocate 100 million dollars to build those hospitals by using the method of ready- made building for fast finishing.

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Allocations of more than 76 billion dinars in 2007
Baghdad-Mustafa Majeed

The Ministry of Agriculture announced on its investment for next year, the granting of (76) billion (600) million dinars, an increase of (46) billion dinars on the allocations this year, at a time when in the coming days to declare that Iraq is free of the disease entirely avian flu.

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/paper.php?source=akbar&page=37




Finance Minister calls for activating investment in the areas of the marshes

- 20/10/2006

Baghdad / Justice Minister of Finance, Mr. Zubaidi Baqir Jabr Hassan force and the Minister of State for the follow-up file marshes and the delegation accompanying him during the meeting was to review the projects to be implemented in the southern region, especially the Iraqi marsh areas that enjoy nature of tourist attractions.

The Minister is to support the Ministry of Finance for the implementation of all projects aimed to upgrade this area and for the distinguished role in confronting the regime that caused the neglect of the great marsh and put the Minister of State creation of a large memorial embodies the heroic deeds of the martyrs of the marshes in addition to the implementation of a number of referred Regrettably, tourism in the region, which will effectively return to normal life for the region and called on the Minister of Finance to stimulate investment in these areas through new investment law for the purpose of creating job opportunities for the people of the marshes and provide requirements comfortable life for them and the Minister explained that the amount allocated for the development of Alahua t ($ 150 million) invested in calling for contributing to the betterment of these areas according to specific controls within the framework of the plan by the advancement of the marshes.

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Originally Posted by fsndirector

Personally I wouldn't call them if I personally spoke Arabic, I believe that kind of stuff will upset them to know end. I let some people talk me into telling them who one of my sources was and the next thing I know my source was getting phone calls from every body and their brother, they didn't know what questions to ask and all it accomplished was to get him upset with me. Thats why most people don't share who their sources are and I won't either any more. The CBI is more tight lipped than any one else is, and rightly so. jmo

Your absolutely right. To keep making these phone calls is inappropriate behaviour, disrespectful and over stepping the mark by a very long way. Furthermore, without a shadow of a doubt, you will not get the answers you are looking for - and you can take that to the bank - lol

Neno...give me a minute....


taking SGS to the bong....light bowl....deep breath SGS...now, don't worry what one thinks...care what several think,value and appreciate...some day soon this little person will mean nothing to you or us...

“We can only see the new moon on Monday evening with difficulty as it will be visible for only 36 minutes with a glow of 1.90 percent,”

Seems like an odd way of putting it - maybe it's a code for some friends (rv 1.90)!

Originally Posted by ronbo

Why do some folks get off on bashing people? I know we have an ignore button, but we need something better. I think something along the lines of the chairs that DR Evil had around his table in The Austin Powers movies. You know, where he pushed a button and the chair would just dump them through a hole in the floor. Yea, that's what we need!!!!

I agree, and I would like One millllllllllllion Dinar, oh Dollars.

OSOK

Originally Posted by greatstuff

Seems like an odd way of putting it - maybe it's a code for some friends (rv 1.90)!

Originally Posted by greatstuff

Seems like an odd way of putting it - maybe it's a code for some friends (rv 1.90)!

I'll take the 1.90USD:1NID.

Re-framing banks
To activate their role in the processes of reconstruction and development
20/10/2006
Source: Al-Sabah


Economic expert disclosed that the banking system in Iraq is suffering from deficiencies in performing its core functions, stressing the need for re-framing government banks. Dr. Majid Assoori, an expert at the Iraqi Central Bank, said in an interview on the role of banks in the economic reform: the fundamental task of re-framing banks is improving their performance in order to provide banking services to the government, institutions and individuals in accordance with the requirements of developing the economy.

Assoori emphasized that the banking sector plays an important role in the international economic and financial relations; therefore, it has a considerable international attention that the banking sector needs to be responsible and accurate in implementing these transactions.
He said: Therefore, the main objective of re-framing is to eliminate the problems facing banks and ensure the functioning of local and international dealings.

The tasks of re-framing are determined by two main factors: first, The existence of a genuine, clear and transparent political will to do this process, and a proper timing in a relatively calm financial banking activity.

The second task in financial re-framing includes the commitment to the minimum capital for the banks. If a transition to be made to broad international activity, the capital should be increased to its higher levels as well as reconsidering the credit portfolio and improving its management; also, obliging to regulations, instructions and procedures.

Dr. Magid pointed to the need to ease the liabilities of banks and convert as much as possible to increase the capital. Some of the requirements of re-framing banking activity are to reconsider the type of services provided, develop and execute them as soon as possible, strengthen internal controls and monitoring compliance, policy-making is also required in accordance with the Banking Law and the regulations of the Central Bank and the instruction of the Board, as well as reducing operational costs and the use of modern means of providing banking services.

Assoori believed that one of the requirements for re-framing government banks is to reconsidr specialized banks and merge them in one bank to develop industry, agriculture and the projects related to them.

He called for capital increase up to half a billion dollars in order to be able to deal with the new tasks of the current stage of economic development, and the exploitation of part of the oil resources allocated to this development, in order to develop the industrial and agricultural activities, small and medium-sized, to be a center for attracting foreign investments and collaborate with them to implement of these projects, even big ones.

He concluded by saying that the re-framing of banks requires acting according to a well studied plan and serious work by all of those related to these banks and these are, basically, the State represented by the Ministry of Finance, as the sole owner of these banks and the Iraqi Central Bank as the supervisor of the banking activity and the most specialized in assessing this activity. He also said :

Without the cooperation of these bodies and to the support of the government, it is impossible to accomplish the task of re-framing government banks drastically. He pointed out that the re-framing will activate the role of banks in the process of reconstruction and development.

Translated by IRAQdirectory.com Team

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

“We can only see the new moon on Monday evening with difficulty as it will be visible for only 36 minutes with a glow of 1.90 percent,”

36 x 1.9% = .68

Iraq's PM says executing Saddam could help defuse insurgency
By Bushra Juhi and Jamal Halaby

Associated Press Writers

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq's prime minister says Saddam Hussein's execution would help undermine the insurgency.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he hoped Saddam's trial for genocide, which began in August, would not last long and "shortly a death sentence will be passed against this criminal tyrant, his aides and the criminals who worked with him."

"Definitely, with his execution, those betting on returning to power under the banner of Saddam and the Baath (Party) will lose," al-Maliki told reporters Wednesday in Najaf.

Saddam and six co-defendants are on trial for their roles in Operation Anfal, a military offensive against the Kurds in 1987-88. The prosecution says some 180,000 Kurds were killed and hundreds of villages destroyed.

Saddam and another defendant are charged with genocide, but all could face the death penalty if convicted.

Saddam also is awaiting a verdict in a first trial in connection with the deaths of about 148 Shiite villagers in Dujail after an assassination attempt against him in 1982. That verdict is expected next month, and if convicted Saddam could also face death by hanging.

Both trials are being closely watched by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, which is battling an insurgency in which Saddam's supporters play a major role.

Saddam's supporters have long maintained that the trials are unfair and that the Shiite-dominated government has interfered in the judicial process — charges that Iraq's new leaders have denied.

During today's session, two witnesses testified that villagers fled in panic after a chemical weapons attack on northern Iraq in 1988, with some taking refuge in the mountains where Iraqi air force planes bombed them.

"People in my village were screaming that they were contaminated by chemical weapons," witness Abdullah Saeed, a 79-year-old Kurd, testified.




"We loaded children, women and other persons infected with chemical weapons onto three trucks and fled to another village," Saeed said, recalling the day in April 1988 when Saddam's forces bombed two neighboring villages, causing clouds of smoke to drift toward his home.

A second witness from the same village of Jalmard told the court that as he and other villagers fled the chemical cloud into the mountains, Iraqi air force planes bombed them.

"My nephew and another man got killed, and we left their bodies lying in the mountains," testified Bakir Qader Mohammad, 72.

Saeed said that as the people left their village in a convoy of trucks, Saddam's forces stopped them and took them to a detention facility, where sanitary conditions were appalling.

Witness Mohammed said the camp where they were ultimately detained in southern Iraq, Nugrat Salman, was so bad that hundreds of people died of malnutrition and diseases like cholera.

Saeed testified that at least 1,800 of the 7,000 prisoners in Nugrat Salman died of malnutrition.

When the presiding judge questioned his casualty figure, Saeed said: "Before we were released from detention, one of the prisoners managed to steal a prison document, which showed that number."

Saeed that after water was cut in the detention camp, a group of prisoners approached a prison warden called Hajjaj — whom earlier witnesses have accused of abusing detainees.

"We went to beg Hajjaj to give us water, but he told us: 'we cut the water so that you'd die, you came here to die."'

The court then adjourned until Oct. 30.

On Wednesday, two other Kurds told the court how they survived massacres conducted after guards took them in trucks into the desert, telling them they were being moved to another detention center.

One witness said he fell wounded into a ditch full of bodies. He said he climbed out and ran for his life past mounds in the desert, the mass graves of other victims in the offensive.

Both witnesses recalled fellow prisoners reciting the Islamic prayers before death, asking for God's forgiveness of their sins, as they realized they were going to be shot.

Juhi reported from Baghdad and Halaby from Amman, Jordan. Some material in this story came from a pool report at the trial in Baghdad.


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