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

Sotaliraq.com

just wanted to comment on this article... ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!

Originally Posted by bigred52

Saddam Hussein verdict to be delivered SUNDAY the 5th he will also
be sentenced at that time.

And then the Appeal process starts! That will take a few more months!

U.S. pulls Web site said to reveal nuclear guide
Questions raised about whether Iraq documents gave too much information
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• Web site secrets?
Nov. 3: The federal government pulls down a Web site that may have inadvertently published instructions on how to build a nuclear bomb. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
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Updated: 7:42 a.m. CT Nov 3, 2006
WASHINGTON - The nation’s top intelligence official took down a government Web site with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents, after questions were raised whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.

In a statement Thursday night, a spokesman for National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said his office has suspended public access to the Web site “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

The action came after The New York Times raised questions about the contents of the government site, called the “Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal.” The Times reported Thursday night on its Web site that weapons experts say documents posted on the government site in recent weeks provided dangerous detail about Iraq’s covert nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that outside experts, including the director of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, informed the Bush administration that it might have inadvertently publicized how-to-manuals for making nuclear bombs.

A diplomat affiliated with the IAEA said its inspectors were “shocked by the explicitness of the content” on the Web site and that a senior agency official conveyed the concerns to U.S. diplomats in Vienna, where the agency is based.

But Matthew Boland, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the IAEA, said Friday that “Ambassador (Gregory) Schulte did not receive any protest or expression of concern from the IAEA on this issue.”


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16,000 documents
Officials acknowledge that sensitive documents — with information on nuclear triggers and other technology — could have been on the public Web site, which had some 16,000 documents in it.

One official working on the problem said that as few as a dozen documents might be in the sensitive category.

Outside nuclear experts suggested to the New York Times that the documents could have helped rogue states like Iran with their nuclear programs.

But the U.S. officials were doubtful, telling NBC News that Iran's nuclear program was already highly sophisticated last spring and summer when it was cited for violations by U.N. inspectors. The most sensitive captured Iraqi documents were not posted until September. The sources said that makes it very unlikely the documents contributed anything to Iran's nuclear program.

The Iraqi documents include information on Saddam's nuclear program — most of which dates back to the first Gulf War. Two CIA weapons experts — first David Kay and then Charles Duelfer — concluded in 2004 and 2005 that while Saddam might have wanted to revive his nuclear program, it effectively ended with the first Gulf War.

That said, a top official told NBC News that Iraq's program was relatively sophisticated — and that the documents could have been helpful to terrorists or others trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Lawmakers wanted release
Pressed by Republican members of Congress, Negroponte’s office last March ordered the unprecedented release of millions of pages of Iraqi documents, most of them in Arabic, collected by the U.S. government over more than a decade.

Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.

According to the Times, conservative politicians and publications hoped analysis of the some 48,000 boxes of documents seized in the Iraq invasion would reinvigorate the search for proof that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Bush cited concerns about that as a major cause for the Iraq invasion. No such weapons have been found.

Until this week, the information had been posted gradually on public Internet servers run by the military. In announcing the postings, Negroponte’s office said the U.S. government had made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, their factual accuracy or the quality of any translations, when available.

NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell as well as The Associated Press and Reuters

Remember folks, it was posted that some imf folks read this forum. So they are not going to give someone good news to put in here. That would be I think considered a major leak!
JMO

Okay, not 100% positive but I believe this is new on the site. Its under Statistics...

The Department of Research and Statistics was always the one to publish statistical information about various Iraqi economic activities. This put key information into the hands of researchers and economists for analysis and economic studies, to say nothing of the importance of formulating national monetary and fiscal policy, with benefit of the quarterly bulletins and the annual reports which the Central Bank of Iraq issued. However, the negative conditions that the country experienced and the harsh constraints on publishing any information that were imposed by the previous regime caused the Central Bank to halt publishing any information, thereby reducing its statistical and research activitie At present, with the end of those circumstances and with the desire of the Central Bank to have full transparency in publication, the environment has become conducive to the Central Bank’s conducting research and publishing relevant information in a timely manner.On this occasion, the Department of Research and Statistics is pleased to publish this Special Issue of the Statistical Bulletin of the Central Bank of Iraq, to provide information available for the period of 1991 through June 2003. This is the starting point for regular publication of the Quarterly Bulletin and the Annual Report of the economy of the new Iraq.

The Director General of Research and Statistics

Statistics

Not sure what it means exactly, any thoughts? Has anyone seen this before?

Cheers!
DayDream

Originally Posted by Adster

Hope paynes won't mind me posting this. Certainly signing something, love to know for sure what it is!


PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ

This is it folks.

I am going out on a limb here and giving all the International Compact Members alot of credit for the keeping the Compact and its true meaning out of the the news. The GOI's Ministry of finance has given misinformation in statements about lopping zeros, reprinting the currency and exchanging the dinars 1500 to 1. The GOI is now bound by the Compact and have no choice but to keep the currency they have. The Media has also done a excellent job of bringing the absolute worst case stories of Iraq to our televison sets about how bad it is over there and then behind the scenes we have 22 countries that are signing the International compact for the reason of stablizing the Middle East.(see link above for pics of signing ) In Germany the reason for the Marshall Plan was they did not want the soviet Union spreading Communism throgh out Europe. Sound Familar?

Get ready a revalue is on the way.

GREAT PICTURES!!! NOW, WHO AMOUNG US HAS THE ABILITY TO 'ZOOM' IN ON THOSE PICTURES???

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

Yes I did, on two occassions and spoke briefly with both men, though they work for the World Bank they are connected with Iraq through IMF
What they told me was not positive and therefore not something I cared to post.

To post something like this and then not reply to the dozen comments of people asking you to explain greatly lowers your creditabilty

Originally Posted by doublescorpio

To post something like this and then not reply to the dozen comments of people asking you to explain greatly lowers your creditabilty

I agree. We should just forget about the "tease" and move on.

Originally Posted by doublescorpio

To post something like this and then not reply to the dozen comments of people asking you to explain greatly lowers your creditabilty

Hmmm, maybe his the guy from the IMF that knows about us and is he trying to scare us!!

NOT WORKING!!!!!!!

Well, if I don't see a full story tommorow morning his creditability is 0.

Originally Posted by doublescorpio

To post something like this and then not reply to the dozen comments of people asking you to explain greatly lowers your creditabilty

The guy is probably at work!