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

Originally Posted by azmia

Last I checked last week, Pepsi was $0.03 a share USD

THAT'S IT! With as much of it as I buy, it should be worth more than that!

I guess I'll wait for the ISX.

Originally Posted by azmia

ISX is the Iraqi Stock Exchange. Right now if you want to invest, you have to go though one of their recommended broker. Unfortunatly, there are not advanced communication methods available and it is most done in writing. Also, and I am sure that either Adam or Mike will correct me, but you have to have an Iraqi Bank account. The information I have been able to get on this right now, is that they want investments into their banking and oil production areas, but there is also farming and construction (rebuilding).

http://www.isx-iq.net/page/about.htm

Last I checked last week, Pepsi was $0.03 a share USD

hey mia,

when you pop over there to get your Pepsi shares.... pick me up 10,000 or 20,000.... please? I love Pepsi! (especially at 0.03 a share!)

Originally Posted by rodney ewalt

It seems to me that there is still way too much violence from the insurgents causing instability for the Dinar to "PEG" anytime soon.

Yes indeed...no security...no stability...no peg...but given time all will be well!!

Originally Posted by flygirl1

I agree with you. I have a friend that is a guru with comodities. I dabbled with them and did ok, but I did make nearly as much as with dinars. I agree with you, the more you read this forum, the more you learn. I would like an education in the world of ISX. Knowledge is power.

My husband is a funny man. He loves that I am all over this. He has nicknamed me "Bagdad Betty". I crack up every time he calls me that. (buy the way my name is not Betty)

Hello "Bagdad Betty" I know you.

Yes Danny,

That's how it seems to me, but hey, so what if it takes a while longer to peg, that just gives us more time to invest. I feel certain that Iraq will eventually be a thriving country again, better than it ever was before.

Just got back guys, off to bed soon, long old day, Mrs A has food poisoning and we got back to find the cat has peed somewhere in the house, can only smell it, not found it yet! Nightmare!! lol.

Just had a look around, found this, good news. Looks like Maliki is pulling out all the stops to fill the 2 minister posts asap, good sign. And WHY? Because they need to peg this frigging dinar asap.

As for the rumours, well, I hope and think you've all been around long enough to have not put dinars on it!! Guess I was about 30% on it happening on those dates. We're still very close, so so close, the rumour starters on other forums have gone very quiet, possibly out of embarrassment!

My own thoughts are still by end of June, everything will tie in nicely by then, signing of international foreign investment laws, minister posts being filled etc. We'll see.


GHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday he would fill vacancies at the crucial defense and interior ministries over the weekend, despite failing to reach an agreement on candidates with Iraq's fractious ethnic and sectarian parties.





The appointments, which must be approved by parliament, are the keystone of al-Maliki's plan to take complete control of security around Iraq from U.S.-led forces within the next 18 months.

In violence Thursday, a mortar barrage struck a number of houses in Baghdad's southern Dora district. A first barrage of seven mortar rounds killed nine and wounded 40, while another five rounds killed four and wounded 29. Mortar attacks are usually carried out by insurgent groups.

Earlier, a bomb struck a group of construction workers seeking jobs in central Baghdad, killing at least two and wounding 18, police said.

Al-Maliki apparently decided to go ahead with the appointment of ministers for defense, interior and national security — a lesser post — to end two weeks of uncertainty. The two key posts were temporarily being held by al-Maliki and one of his deputy prime ministers since the Cabinet was sworn in on May 20.

Al-Maliki said disagreements among the political blocs proved insurmountable so he decided to "present the names that we believe in to parliament to let it ... decide the issue, because total agreement by all the blocs is almost impossible."

Leaving a Cabinet meeting, the Shiite prime minister said "the names of the interior and defense ministers will be announced at parliament's next session" on Sunday, ending protracted negotiations with Sunni Arabs and Kurds.

He did not divulge the names of the candidates, who must be approved by an overwhelming majority in the 275-member parliament.

Al-Maliki reportedly has three candidates for each of the posts, just in case parliament rejects his first choice. The candidates come from a pool that has been discussed at length by negotiators in recent weeks.

The posts, especially defense and interior, are considered an integral part of al-Maliki's plan to take control of security over its 18 provinces from U.S.-led forces. The transfer is key to an overall American exit strategy that would allow the eventual withdrawal of its 130,000 troops.

It has been agreed that the defense ministry post will go to a Sunni Arab. But some candidates were rejected by Shiites who claimed they had ties to the former regime, or by Kurds who said they were connected to a campaign against their community.

The interior ministry post will go to a Shiite. But Sunni Arabs complained that many Shiite candidates had ties to militias.

Any security force will need to tame insurgent hotbeds like Ramadi, in Iraq's volatile Anbar province.

A U.S. military spokesman said American forces are "very concerned" about the situation in Ramadi because al-Qaida in Iraq is taking advantage of sectarian differences to make inroads in the city.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell confirmed that about 1,500 combat troops have been moved from a reserve force in Kuwait into Anbar province, which surrounds Ramadi, to help authorities establish order.

He described the new deployment as short-term to ensure continuity during summer rotations and said the focus was on quelling the al-Qaida presence in the area to keeping foreign fighters from crossing over from Syria, which borders Anbar.

"The situation in Ramadi, just like in Baghdad, is serious at this time, and it's something we're paying a lot of attention to," he said.

Though not powerful enough to overrun U.S. positions, insurgents in the city of 400,000 have fought U.S. and Iraqi forces to a virtual stalemate.

Hello I'am neno, another train jumper from Texas, you leave, I join the group for this run. You get back, I am leaving for the Sea World trip. hehe I guess I will catch-up with you on Monday.

Hope your trip was good. Give the Misses some Frutavida, in the morning everything will be fine.

So from the end of May-beginning of June, it moved to end of June, we'll see :)

Mike Mike Mike...you sound like my husband....he is very opinonated about the Dinar and me spending 'our' money on it....but I have every confidence that the Dinar is going to peg soon. There are too many 'good' movements in Iraqi right now expecially to the north....The ISX is moving forward, the banks are getting up and running, the global monitary interest is picking up....there is only one way to go...UP ... just sit back and enjoy the rush...this isn't a hyip/mlm/get rich...this is a real piece of history happening in front of us, and we are all here and able to enjoy it together !!

(my husband doesn't know that I have spend 'my' money on dinar too!)

This is very exciting !!!!

Originally Posted by neno

Hello I'am neno, another train jumper from Texas, you leave, I join the group for this run. You get back, I am leaving for the Sea World trip. hehe I guess I will catch-up with you on Monday.

Hope your trip was good. Give the Misses some Frutavida, in the morning everything will be fine.

Thanks neno, she's a lot better today. Have a safe trip yourself, speak next week. :0)