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

1. Maintaining low inflation within the context of sound monetary policy, and expanded
monetary policy tools.
2. Maintaining fiscally sound budgets and transparent controls for budget formulation and
execution Meeting fiscal targets will be assisted by subsidy adjustments.
3. Strengthening financial management and public expenditure tracking and control.
4. Developing and implementing mechanisms to ensure transparent and full accountability of
oil revenues within the national budget process.
5. Concluding debt relief agreements with both Paris Club and non-Paris Club creditors.
6. Implementing all macroeconomic and structural reforms under the International Monetary
Fund’s (IMF) Emergency Post Conflict Assistance (EPCA) agreement, including
implementing a timely and accurate monetary survey and establishing a single treasury
account.
7. Improving the quality, timeliness, and range of financial and economic data produced by
government offices for economic planning.
8. Implementing fiscal decentralization and devolution of planning responsibilities to local and
regional governments.
9. Increasing domestic resource mobilization by creating conditions conducive to private
savings, by strengthening the deposit-taking commercial banking sector with a national
payments system.


Iraq s National Development Strategy

I am not very good at finding things. I seem to recall that there was going to be a final working party meeting at the WTO re Iraq's accession to the WTO. I tried to find it and the latest on the WTO site about Iraq is September 2005! This is what I found.

"All unrestricted documents on accession of Iraq" but when I clicked on it this is what I got

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I find that strange unless they have not updated their site. I think the last working party meeting was on October 9 but I am not sure.
LOL. I think that Vietnam is going to beat Iraq to it! (NA to approve Vietnam’s WTO accession on Nov. 28 )

Iraqi Kurds seeking dialogue
ERBIL/ANKARA, 26 October 2006 (The New Anatolian)

Iraqi Kurdish leaders are planning to send a high-powered joint delegation of
Kurdistan Democracy Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) officials
to Turkey to mend fences with Ankara.

Iraqi Kurdish leaders, alarmed at the growing rift with Baghdad and the
deteriorating general security situation in Iraq, see their dependence on Turkey
increasing and feel the urge to establish closer links with Ankara.

The New Anatolian learned in Erbil that PUK and KDP leaders, who established a
joint government for the northern Iraqi region in May, now plan to set up a
joint team that will travel to Turkey. The same delegation will then visit
Tehran and Damascus as well as Amman and Cairo.

The KDP tried to establish dialogue with Turkey by hosting the undersecretary of
the Turkish intelligence agency in Salahaddin, where he met Massoud Barzani and
other high-level officials.

Later a KDP delegation visited Turkish intelligence headquarters in Ankara.
However, these contacts failed to establish a workable environment for dialogue
between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish leaders.
The Iraqi Kurdish leaders see improving ties with Ankara as a priority because
the oil they hope to produce and sell in the future can only reach world markets
through Turkey.

However, the presence of Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK terrorists in the Kandil
Mountains in northern Iraq and the impasse over the Kirkuk issue, in contention
by Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens, remain serious stumbling blocks for Ankara to show
any enthusiasm for any meaningful dialogue with the Iraqi Kurds.

The fact that the PKK presence is so obvious in the Iraqi Kurdish region where
the terrorist group is allowed to man checkpoints on the roads leading to the
Kandil Mountains and the fact that the KDP's KTV aired a one-hour interview with
PKK leader Murat Karayilan has deepened Ankara's concerns that the Iraqi Kurdish
leaders are not at all interested in wiping out the PKK, and instead are
facilitating it.

The Iraqi Kurdish leaders led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who also heads
the PUK, say the PKK has declared a cease-fire and now it is up to Ankara to
reciprocate this "gesture." Ankara does not accept the PKK as a counterpart and
has dismissed the so-called cease-fire.

Whether Ankara welcomes a joint KDP-PUK delegation in view of these conditions
remains to be seen.

Iraqi PM sees peace in 6 months - if US cooperates
By Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald
BAGHDAD, 26 October 2006 (Reuters)

Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday he could get violence under control in
six months, half the time U.S. generals say they need, provided Washington gave
him more weaponry and more say over his own forces.

In sharp criticism of the handling of Iraq's security by the United States, Nuri
al-Maliki denied U.S. assertions he was working to a timetable of steps agreed
with Washington.

He also told Reuters in an interview he had no fear the Americans might oust
him, after President George W. Bush said on Wednesday his patience was "not
unlimited" and that he would back Maliki "as long as he continues to make tough
decisions".

"They think building Iraqi forces will need 12 to 18 months, for us to be in
control of security," Maliki said, referring to remarks two days ago by U.S.
commander General George Casey.

"We agree our forces need work but think that if, as we are asking, the
rebuilding of our forces was in our own hands, then it would take not 12-18
months but six might be enough."

He called for more say on security policy once the U.S.-led Coalition's U.N.
mandate runs out in December.

"If anyone is responsible for the poor security situation in Iraq it is the
Coalition," Maliki said.

"I am now prime minister and overall commander of the armed forces yet I cannot
move a single company without Coalition approval because of the U.N. mandate,"
Maliki said.

"I have to be careful fighting some militias and terrorists ... because they are
better armed than the army and police," Maliki said. "The police are sharing
rifles."

Bush, whose Republicans fear congressional election losses on November 7 because
of Iraq, has increased pressure on Maliki to clamp down on militias loyal to
fellow Shi'ite Islamists and amnesty insurgents from the Sunni minority.

Maliki said he rejected drawing a veil over what he called the terrorism by
Baathist followers of Saddam Hussein.

"At least we can talk to the militias, we know who they are," Maliki said,
noting they followed his own Dawa party and the other Shi'ite groups which
dominate parliament.

Maliki, in office for six months at the head of a unity coalition including
Sunnis and Kurds, said he had won the agreement of Shi'ite militia leaders like
Moqtada al-Sadr, the focus of particular U.S. criticism, to halt violence.

Iraqi Sunnis and U.S. officials blame members of Sadr's Mehdi Army militia and
similar Shi'ite paramilitary groups, some in the security forces, for thousands
of sectarian killings.

"As far as 'tough decisions' go, I say we want to take firm and difficult
decisions," Maliki said of Bush's remark.

"But anyone who wants to take a difficult decision has to do so from solid
ground and so the far the ground is unstable -- due to current security
policies."

Asked what kind of Iraqi forces he wanted, Maliki said: "I'm not talking about
modern tanks or modern warplanes and missiles ... I'm talking about having a
well-trained army, swift and light on its feet and at the same time with medium
weapons."

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said on Tuesday Maliki had agreed
to a series of security and political "benchmarks" over the next year, including
disbanding militias, that would follow a "timeline" supported by U.S. officials.

Maliki gave his own news conference the next day and denied he had agreed to do
anything. He told Reuters on Thursday: "The term used by Khalilzad was not
accurate."

He said the envoy seemed to be referring to the government's own view of
desirable developments, not necessarily action by the government itself. "It is
not a timetable for the government but rather the issues needed to be solved,"
Maliki said.

Bush said on Wednesday that American patience in Iraq was "not unlimited" but
Maliki said he did not take that to mean he would be pushed aside if the
"benchmarks" were not met.

"I don't think American policy would commit the mistake of replacing a prime
minister or a government in Iraq. That would be burning their slogans. I don't
think they think like that as it would mean the failure of the entire political
process."

U.S. officials have not said what they would do if Iraq fails to meet targets,
although Bush said he would not leave U.S. soldiers in the crossfire of a civil
war.

Im on the conference call right now with "Free Dinar"
They have a gentleman on there right now that was a stock broker for several years in New York. He believes that the Dinar will be pegged at a certain amount and then will stay there for a year or so. then will be allowed to raise or lower on its own, but he thinks it will be kept at the lower amount and allow them to get a lot of the dinar back in country. Then it will raise from there.
Free Dinar is hoping that they don't reopen at all.

This guy has a formula that he used when he first started puchasing dinar and I could not really follow it. But he said that it would show you why it is such a good investment.
They talked about the huge oil reserves.
No Debt.
Oil Company waiting at the border'
They believe the banks will reopen on the 1st of Nov
They don't believe there will be anymore auctions at the CBI, as they will be RVing the Dinar at this time.
I don't agree with some of what he says especially with his figures of .30cents on the RV.
But its just another take on the whole thing. But I do believe as most of us do that we are really close.

Pipshurricane, I am so sorry that I posted the Kurds seeking dialogue, after you had already posted it. I must have over looked You posting it. Barbara

Fsn,
Did they say what they thought the Dinar would Peg at?
CLM

I just listened to the conference call of freedinar & they had a guest speaker talk about the way they might peg the dinar . Start low & get back some currency from the quick sellers then raise a little over time . Seam to have some knowledge even though he didn't understand the question he was asked about method of selling to bank & how they set rate if it changes while in there possesion verifying dinar. F/D still not selling & thinks they may never again after Nov 1st anybody else here the call tonite?

Originally Posted by fsndirector

Im on the conference call right now with "Free Dinar"
They have a gentleman on there right now that was a stock broker for several years in New York. Hebeleives that the Dinar will be pegged at a certain amount and then will stay there for a year or so. then will be allowed to raise or lower on its own, but he thinks it will be kept at the lower amount and allow them to get a lot of the dinar back in country. Then it will raise from there.
Free Dinar is hoping that they don't reopen at all.

This guy has a formula that he used when he first started puchasing dinar and I could not really follow it. But he said that it would show you why it is such a good investment.
They talked about the huge oil reserves.
No Debt.
Oil Company waiting at the border'
They believe the banks will reopen on the 1st of Nov
They don't believe there will be anymore auctions at the CBI, as they will be RVing the Dinar at this time.
I don't agree with some of what he says especially with his figures of .30cents on the RV.
But its just another take on the whole thing. But I do believe as most of us do that we are really close.

did he say what he meant by low end?

thanks fsndirector, is there anyway you could find out the formula that the ex-broker was using? also was this the formula that he thinks the dinar will r/v? i know nobody really knows i just find it intresting.