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

In honor of Neno's request I have answered or commented on several of the different post her. But they are in the crazy thread. Come on over and check er out, eh. Git er done.

OSOK

Originally Posted by DayDream

I happened to come across a very unusual statement when I was searching for info on Article 8. This is on the IMF website under:

April 22, 2006 -- IMFC Statement by His Excellency Sultan Bin Nasser Al-Suwaidi, Governor of the United Arab Emirates Central Bank
On behalf of: United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic, Republic of Yemen. PDF File Size: 38Kb

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Exchange Rates and Trade Balance Adjustment in Emerging Market Economies Prepared by the Policy Development and Review Department In collaboration with the Research Department and in consultation with other Departments Approved by Mark Allen October 10, 2006 ..........................

13. The proposed new “supplemental surveillance consultation” in a multilateral format
is, in principle, a positive step towards increasing the attention to issues of systemic
importance. However, the proposal remains vague at this stage, and a number of issues
would need to be resolved regarding its implementation, including the format of reporting to
the Board and the IMFC. We look forward to a more detailed proposal in this area.

14. We agree that exchange rate surveillance needs to be strengthened and we welcome the intention to review the 1977 Surveillance Decision. However, we caution against undue focus on exchange rates at the expense of other policies. We agree to a broadening of the work of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rates (CGER) to include major emerging
markets’ currencies. However, given the market sensitivity of the information, especially for the latter, we strongly object to the publication of assessments of Equilibrium Exchange Rates. Informal Board discussions of these assessments could provide a venue for candid multilateral debates and for the dissemination of relevant information without risking an adverse impact on more vulnerable economies. Moreover, given the inherent methodological pitfalls in the analysis and referencing of equilibrium real exchange rates, and the often wide differences in the results of alternative models, these assessments should be interpreted with extreme caution.

Is this saying what I think it is saying... that mums the word on exchange rate discussions for EMERGING MARKETS? Notice that Iraq WAS INCLUDED in this article. Is this maybe why r/v info is few and far between?

Any thoughts? Or am I just being overly suspicious?

Full Article:
http://www.imf.org/External/spring/2...nt/eng/uae.pdf

Cheers!
DayDream

What is going on with the dates???

The article is posted in April and it is talking about a talk that happened (or so it says) on Oct. 10.

Maybe I read it wrong but that doesn't make sense to me...

However what does make sense to me is that they DO NOT allow any information leaked about what is truly going on behind the scenes for this currency.

Originally Posted by Socata 850

To OneOar:

Are you in Oklahoma? I'm in Edmond.

Hey Socata, there's several of us on this Forum from MULDROW OK.

Originally Posted by Cyberkhan

What is going on with the dates???

The article is posted in April and it is talking about a talk that happened (or so it says) on Oct. 10.

Maybe I read it wrong but that doesn't make sense to me...

However what does make sense to me is that they DO NOT allow any information leaked about what is truly going on behind the scenes for this currency.

Smokescreens maybe??? Keep the public disoriented?

First = thanks to Socota 850 for the poem . . . LOL . . .

I'm afraid @ this moment . . . I can't even guess who will be the one that ends up uncovering the exact time & amt . . . . I'm assuming it's out there / just well hidden . . . I hope it's Susie . . .

In fact / If / when I get the 24 hr. word I will probably get it to Susie & let her deal with it as I know she will . . .

To Stuff: Indira & I took a M/C ride on Sun . . . pulling back into my driveway we bumped a dog / went down / both of us hurt our right legs / luckily no broken bones / I have a badly wrenched right ankle / . . . The bike is okay, and that's the most important part . . . She's still mad as a wet hornet because I seemed more concerned about the bike than for her . . .

BTW = the dog got up & ran away / he was unhurt / unlike me & she . . . LOL . . .

Picture of Bike & Indira @ her Pizza shop . . . [either in this box or attached as paper clip items below] . . . for those who don't think anything I post really EXISTS . . .

To the IQD = I asked Indira to try to approach the subject with her Brothers through the *back-door* . . . she wrinkled her eyebrows / I said, "cajole" them . . . she said, "what does that mean?" I said, "you know . . . like you do to me when you want something." She raised one eyebrow, "and said, "I can't do that, that would be interpreted as being incestuous! . . . I'm a proud kurdish woman, after all!

I replied, "I thought the women of kurdistan were emancipated?" She replied, "not that emancipated. We've come a long way, but women there are still very subservent." I said, "then threathen them!"

"I've already threatened them. I told them I was mad and was going to scratch 'em, bite 'em, kick 'em, slap 'em & smack 'em!"

Through the yelling she did manage to get a little info . . .

Still no 10K . . . Brother 2 is sure that the banks already have ample small denoms / & small coins . . . but expect more soon . . .

While she was fussing @ them & listening with one ear / I tried to interject in her other ear the followijg question / "Ask him if he has actually *seen the smaller denom's?" . . . after a bit of confusion / *HE SAID NO, BUT WAS TOLD THEY HAD THEM* . . .

Her guys are very much part of the group that is not happy at all with Baghdad, and Maliki's constant leaning / and virtual falling / in one particular direction . . .

They want to do their own oil / etc. / deals . . . So they are still blaming all the delays on this politics in Baghdad . . .

They took much of her inquiries as being rather humorous . . . They look at this impending event as being for the little people in Iraq . . . and maintain that she should just be patient . . .

BTW: I hobbled into two BOA branches in my area / both managers acted like Sgt Schultz / "I know nothing." So I think Stephanie's branch may be a single example exchanging . . .

Best to all . . . RR

October 31, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) & By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer & By Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press

U.S. and Iraqi checkpoints around Sadr City and other parts of Baghdad were being opened Tuesday with vehicles passing through unchecked, following an order by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the U.S. military said.

Residents danced in the streets with jubilation Tuesday after U.S. and Iraqi troops ended a weeklong security cordon of Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City district. Men and children gave out chocolates and sodas as the troops packed up and drove away.

Motorists stretched their arms out to flash “V” for victory signs. Some celebrants carried pistols or assault rifles. Some wore black shirts and camouflage pants, hallmark choices of Mahdi Army militiamen.

Tuesday’s festive mood was in sharp contrast to the anger felt by many in Sadr City over the past week, when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government was accused of doing nothing to alleviate suffering in the teeming district.

Searches of vehicles at checkpoints on roads leading to Sadr City brought traffic to a near standstill. Motorists reported spending hours in their cars or taxis waiting for their turn to proceed.

Sadr City’s store owners and schools heeded a call from al-Sadr and stayed shut Tuesday as part of a protest strike. The strike call, announced by loudspeakers at mosques across Sadr City, was observed elsewhere in Baghdad.

Ahmed Jassim Mohammed, a 35-year-old textile merchant in Shurja market, Baghdad’s biggest and oldest, left his store shuttered Tuesday and returned home when he heard of the strike call.

“In solidarity with our people in Sadr city, 80 percent of Shurja market is closed today,” he said.

His friend Hazim Hassan, 28, was also not available for business Tuesday, closing his transport company offices to heed the strike call. “We have to be united and show support to our friends in Sadr City,” he said.

But when news broke that the security cordon was lifted, al-Sadr supporters declared it a victory for their leader.

“If they had not lifted the siege, our strike would have spread to the rest of Baghdad tomorrow and the whole of Iraq the next day,” said Jalil Nouri, a senior aide of al-Sadr in Baghdad.

“This is a victory for us and for al-Sayed Muqtada,” said Nouri, using an honorific to refer to al-Sadr.

U.S. troops were seen abandoning checkpoints and driving away in their Humvees and armored Stryker vehicles.

Jubilant al-Sadr supporters carried large portrait posters of their leaders as they marched in Sadr City to celebrate the end of what residents have been calling “the siege.”

U.S. forces disappeared from the checkpoints within hours of the order, setting off celebrations among civilians and armed men on the edge of the sprawling slum controlled by the Mahdi Army militia run by radical anti-American [translation: moderate, anti-Occupation] cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Iraqi troops loaded coils of barbed wire and red traffic cones onto pickup trucks, while small groups of men and children danced in circles chanting slogans praising al-Sadr, who earlier Tuesday had ordered the area closed to the Iraqi government until U.S. troops lifted what he called their "siege" of the neighborhood.

The order for all the entrances of Sadr City to reopen by 5 p.m. (9 a.m. ET) came after a strike ordered by nationalist Muqtada al-Sadr shut down the sprawling Shiite slum Monday.

In a statement addressed to local supporters Monday, al-Sadr had warned of unspecified action if the military's "siege" continues. He also criticized what he called the silence of politicians over actions by the U.S. military in the district.

"If this siege continues for long, we will resort to actions which I will have no choice but to take, God willing, and when the time is right," he said.

Most shops, schools and government buildings were closed for the day to protest the checkpoints, some of which have paralyzed traffic across the capital over the past week.

By 10 p.m. ET, the status of each and every checkpoint was unclear, and Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division emphasized to CNN that the checkpoints were not being dismantled. [In your dreams.]

U.S. and Iraqi troops imposed checkpoints at the main entrance to Sadr City, while conducting raids in their search for an American soldier kidnapped in central Baghdad on October 23.

Tough measures, such as checkpoints, should not be imposed except during Baghdad's daily overnight curfew hours and during emergencies, al-Maliki said.

Checkpoints that had already been in place before the crackdown in Sadr City will remain, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.

The White House disagreed with the characterization that the removal of checkpoints was a setback for the United States.

"To deal with checkpoints does not necessarily change the situation in terms of how you deal with Sadr City," White House press secretary Tony Snow said.



link: GI Special 4K1: General Strike Wins Big - November 1, 2006 :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Geez...it seems like any good news is always followed by bad ii Iraq...Wolf Blitzer is talking about this right now live as well

Originally Posted by RollsRoyce

First = thanks to Scota 850 for the poem . . . LOL . . .

I'm afraid @ this moment . . . I can't even guess who will be the one that ends up uncovering the exact time & amt . . . . I'm assuming it's out there / just well hidden . . . I hope it's Susie . . .

In fact / If / when I get the 24 hr. word I will probably get it to Susie & let her deal with it as I know she will . . .

To Stuff: Indira & I took a M/C ride on Sun . . . pulling back into my driveway we bumped a dog / went down / both of us hurt our right legs / luckily no broken bones / I have a badly wrenched right ankle / . . . The bike is okay, and that's the most important part . . . She's still mad as a wet hornet because I seemed more concerned about the bike than for her . . .

Picture of Bike & Indira @ her Pizza shop . . . [either in this box or attached as paper clip items below] . . . for those who don't think anything I post really EXISTS . . .

To the IQD = I asked Indira to try to approach the subject with her Brothers through the *back-door* . . . she wrinkled her eyebrows / I said, "cajole" them . . . she said, "what does that mean?" I said, "you know . . . like you do to me when you want something." She raised one eyebrow, "and said, "I can't do that, that would be interpreted as being incestuous! . . . I'm a proud kurdish woman, after all!

I replied, "I thought the women of kurdistan were emancipated?" She replied, "not that emancipated. We've come a long way, but women there are still very subservent." I said, "then threathen them!"

"I've already threatened them. I told them I was mad and was going to scratch 'em, bite 'em, kick 'em, slap 'em & smack 'em!"

Through the yelling she did manage to get a little info . . .

Still no 10K . . . Brother 2 is sure that the banks already have ample small denoms / & small coins . . . but expect more soon . . .

While she was fussing @ them & listening with one ear / I tried to interject in her other ear the followijg question / "Ask him if he has actually *seen the smaller denom's?" . . . after a bit of confusion / *HE SAID NO, BUT WAS TOLD THEY HAD THEM* . . .

Her guys are very much part of the group that is not happy at all with Baghdad, and Maliki's constant leaning / and virtual falling / in one particular direction . . .

They want to do their own oil / etc. / deals . . . So they are still blaming all the delays on this politics in Baghdad . . .

They took much of her inquiries as being rather humorous . . . They look at this impending event as being for the little people in Iraq . . . and maintain that she should just be patient . . .

BTW: I hobbled into two BOA branches in my area / both managers acted like Sgt Schultz / "I know nothing." So I think Stephanie's branch may be a single example exchanging . . .

Best to all . . . RR

Thanks RR, the smaller denoms are the key.

thanks RR for the update ,that is great news about the small denoms

thanks

Originally Posted by Adster

Thanks RR, the smaller denoms are the key.

I couldn't agree more Adam . . . I'm gonna keep working to get the Brothers to elaborate . . .
On second reflections she is under the impression that they are locked away . . . and not out where anyone would see them . . . Hummmmm . . .

Might be a few days for an answer as they are back in Baghdad for some reason . . . maybe part of Sadam's trial deal again . . . Uncle Joe is still going back and forth the more they get into the million + Kurd massacre issues . . .

To RR,

Thanks for the update !! I've been asked to repost the poem so here it is. Thanks for all your efforts.


Rolls Royce, where oh where have you been,
It's been a long time since you clued us all in,
Indira and the Boys have so much to say,
Even if they argue-shout and create such a fray,
I hope you have info you're holding close to the chest,
Believe me, we don't mind if you are "First" with the guess,
Just give us something to chew and digest,
Firsthand conversations and family news are always the best,
We hear rumors and predictions till we're blue in the face,
Bombs going off, cars being blown up in place,
All this is news but what is it good for,
Without the reval we all have less not more,
Come on Rolls Royce, please get on the phone,
Call up Indira and see if she's home,
Probe and ask and see what she's got,
Without your good news all the rest is for not,
We need to hear all their shouts for joy,
"The Reval is Here, I can buy my new Toy",
The 10K check is only just the beginning,
The Kurds got it together, they're the one's who are winning,
Tell Indira and the Boys so many of us wait,
Not hearing from them is like fishing without bait,
They'll never know what a gift they have been,
To so many of us that wish we were kin,
Tell them they have family here in the States,
Who wait by our computers, phones and gates,
Tell them we Love them and we wish them well,
We know under Saddam it must have been hell,
It's almost over now, of that you can be sure,
So give us some info that is accurate and pure,
Off to the banks we all will skip,
Each of us planning our own vacation trip,
As for me I'm planning to go to Iraq,
To shout and celebrate and give her a pat on the back,
Tell her thanks for all she and her family have done,
To make this IQD investment so darn much FUN!

Thank you Rolls Royce !!!