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

Originally Posted by Socata 850

How do you know there is no RV today? It's only 8:57 in the morning in Baghdad. CBI doesn't even post for another 2 hours or so. Where did you get your info?

Susie said it with 1 word!!!! "LINK???????"

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RE: People are sick - 11/9/2006 6:12:21 PM showPicture("11/9/2006 6:12:21 PM",0,0,0,8732,8)Jaafer
To everybody
Despite this painful losses and humiliation in our country I ask the manager of this website to ask Ch4 in the UK to send him/her a copy of two documentaries they have shown two and three days ago about the life in Iraq. One is called the wasted youth and the other one called the Death Squads. Let the people from outside see what is happening in Iraq now. What ever bad President Saddam Hussein has caused is nothing compared with what those criminals has caused. Just read this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6129612.stm about just part of the cash which has disappeared from our banks and accounts. The report concentrate on 8 billions which the american criminal who supposed to look after it do not know where it has gone and he answers by saying does it matter? Further, after the failure of the Republicans to continue to control the Senate and the Congress Houses because of the stand-fasting of our and the Arabic and the Islamic Resistance, there is at least an increased talk of withdrawal from Iraq. There is talk of involving not just Syria but Iran in Iraq. Of course involving the later points to the continuous hatred and disregard to our lives. Why on earth an enemy which we have fought for 8 years is even thought of part of the solution although Iran proved itself as the main part of the problem? The west still cry from what Hitler has done to them, but they still want to disregard us but the facts are on the ground. We have particularly the fighters on the ground made them wish they never ventured into our country.

Contrary to a great deal to what has been said most of the death and destruction has came from outside; in addition to the western/jewish criminals, those criminals of "AlBader" (God forgive) are determined to destroy the country to try to lump the South and big part of the Middle to Iran. Of course they do not care at what will happen to the rest of the country. Although the British invaders are the ******* of this divide and rule evil policy, those Iranians dirt are worst, their savagery are unparalleled. When people complain and ask who are you they reply by saying that they are AlMahde Army. You do not have to take it from me or even from the documentary where Mr AlAaraje; Muctada’s deputy has been asked about why AlMahde Army are committing these crimes against the Ira1qi people. He has answered by saying that we have some rotten apples but most of these acts are not caused by us. When pressed of who then? He has answered after the occupation the borders were open and foreigners infiltrated the country. This was as near as possible he can get to accusing their "partners" AlHakeem's gang. He said a criminal would not say I am the criminal. Even if you the readers want to use the same logic to say AlMahde would not admit their crimes, I would like to ask the question why AlMahde army started the killing some 6 months ago while they were on the receiving side since the invasion by those who call them infidels?

No doubt that some of the blame fall on AlMahde Army because the documentary showed the killing of patients, doctors, people who went to pick up their dead just because they are Sunni like wise the killing of shoppers just because they are Shia' has been shown too.

The documentary showed some animal behaviour in prisons which can not be attributed to Iraqis in this intense savageries, like the rape of the 60 out of few hundreds male Iraqi prisoners also the rape of a women three times in the same day while the criminal Soulag was the interior minister. The Iranians of Mujahdeen Khalq have fought with no mercy even those who did not take part in the revolt of 1991. So those AlBader and Khalq are two faces of the same Iranain's dirty coin. Both must be kicked out. No peace in Iraq unless all the invaders and the foreigners will be made to leave with the exception to our brothers and sisters from Palestine.

The documentary showed how life was happy for the Iraqis where ever the camera went. In AlHuria which everybody knows what it is now the males of one extended family have been killed in their bed rooms by the police although one member of the family was a policeman and said so to them. He ended up shot as well. AlJehad supposedly AlMahde army were stopping cars and picking up the Sunni and killing them in the streets. ...etc

Three families or what left of them en Sha Allah shows that Iraq will be liberated and more or less return to what it was. One fighter from alFaluja 17 years old has lost his mother when shot by the americans during the heroic resistance to them. She was shot by two bullets in her neck and then head. Another 17 years old, him and his parents has been forced out because they are Shia'. The other family, the mother got her husband shot because he at Saddam. The other again from the same area has thought the invaders thought well of the invasion at the beginning but all of her sons and her husband were imprisoned for a year with out charge by the americans. All of those and others none of them said there is a Shia' Sunna Problem in Iraq and all of them blamed the invaders for creating such problems. I would like to add President Saddam and the behaviour of some of the sectarians in the residence are responsible for some of these crimes. Further never under estimate the work of Negroponti, British and the Jews death squads in addition to the criminal invasion in igniting this sectarian killings which are more of a revenge than anything else.

I wish people can deal or at least blame the intellectuals rather than those have nots. I know they are rude scary and it is very annoying to deal with those who has no mental ability as we can see in the crimes of the americans and the british troops. Who welcomed them is not an intellectual too.

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Opening : Nouri al-Maliki

Peasant Torch November 12, 2006 With a vision of things and a spirit of optimism filled talked Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki professor yesterday with a gathering of newspaper editors in chief Iraqi newly outlined the many abstracts the political situation and toured the Iraqi crisis and signs and wills. phenomenon and submersible. The principles that the President talked confirm once again upholding democracy of the new Iraq despite many conspiracies and pressures exerted either from the inside or outside the country, specifically from the Iraqi neighboring states and interventions, but Iraq and the state of constitutional law, which seeks President al-Maliki enshrined in the national effort to build a common Iraq free from terrorism and militias, vested his humanity and civilization is firm at the heart of its political platform. Al-Maliki, speaking very calmly and logical balance in the responses to all the questions and self-assured sense of the will of its people leading Head of State arise from the rubble and surrounded by many of the impediments and crises and Altamrat, to say the least it leaves negative effects on the dark President, but we found in saluted Maliki and its own view of things and the reason for the feeling of strength and determination to build a democratic, pluralistic and federal partners believe in the right of its citizens to receive an entitlement, their freedom and dignity and on an equal footing. The leader of the future consider the feelings of all Iraqis and puts his finger on the wound of political experience which the similarity with the people and the spirit of jihad seeks to cure high upon the possible practical, and not the slogans and wishes. No choice substitute for the victory of democracy and the will of the Liberal, National, This people's choice of the date of the struggles and sacrifices for, Any coup, whether politically or militarily will not affect non-catastrophic failure, That is the conviction fixed in the president's speech and vision-Maliki, which calm the body of the idea of self-assured, despite the threat of storms and screaming conspiracy theories that surround the role of government and that the advantage of a leader who is elected by the people. For the rest of talk.

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Political first : Kurd leaders demanding the unity of Iraq FBI

Mohsen al-Sadoun told (morning) Baghdad-Sabah A member of the House of Representatives from the Alliance list Mohsen al-Sadoun to the federal administrative system does not aim to partition Iraq Edlel that Kurdistan is part of Iraq and its leaders demanding unity of Iraq. He said in an interview with (morning) that the application of Article (140) of the Constitution does not contain the Kurdistan areas, but includes many areas in Iraq because many of the areas that were subjected to the Arabization or carved out of the province and included other for political purposes. In the following text of the interview with a member list of the coalition Mohsen al-Sadoun : * What is your evaluation of the first Legislative chapter? - Aaathaqd experience Parliament and the House of Representatives in the new Iraq, the evidence is that history has not seen the Iraqi parliament elected since the founding of the Iraqi state, as happened with the current parliament as it was 70% in the election and the changes that have taken place, the Council of Deputies is the highest legislative authority in the country and should enjoy all the qualifications Almut similar to the rich and to the parliaments of the evolving global. * What do you think the internal system? - For the rules of procedure of the Council, where I was head of the committee writing the rules of procedure, I stopped short Kebasa advanced with the internal regulations of many other parliaments, it must apply the rules of procedure so that the members provide the best for their sons to serve the people. Q : What made the House of laws during the first legislative session? - That was the first legislative chapter appealable included the formation of the government of the Presidency and the Council of Ministers and writing are two important rules of procedure, which continued its discussions more than a month and a half and the replacement of members in addition to some other laws note has been determined leave for a month while it is supposed to be u Hreinne to enable the members to meet the people and the transfer of their views and follow the work of government departments and service. * The number of politicians that the operational procedures provided for the division of Iraq on the basis of ethnic sectarian. - That the Iraqi constitution voted for by 70% of people participated Antananarivo all political forces become binding and the Constitution provides in Article I that the system of governance in the federal democratic. The administrations in Iraq consists of regions and provinces-central and local administrations and why it is incumbent upon us to apply the Constitution Among these materials composition Territories. The composition of the Territories is an administrative division of Iraq and not the fact that Kurdistan is part of Iraq and the leaders of the region always demanded the unity of Iraq and when we embarked Territories Act and voted not to force the people to follow and the imposition of this system, but it is the selection of the areas who wish to build a federation or the Accession to the regions, which demanded to join. This fear must be canceled because the regions and citizens who choose to vote freely on the composition of the territory of their own or not. with the presence of a neutral international bodies monitor the voting process. * What is the latest issue Alttiia and Article 140 of the Constitution? - For normalization and on the application of Article 140 of the Constitution, which was provided for in the State Administration Law, Article 58 which stipulates the need to normalize the situation, as well as conducting the census and the referendum. In Aetekathadi include many of the regions of Iraq, There are some respects in Najaf and Karbala, Nineveh and Salahuddin deducted for political purposes and annexed to other governorates, this article will be this district and sub-district to the provinces and the original sentence and Diyala governorate of Kirkuk and Mosul as well as the subject of arabization of the areas in which Kurdish majority in the process of Arabization took place since the 1960s and the last place of the displacement of the people of the governorate, especially Kurds and Alterkma n at the time of the Principles, therefore, the legislators found that the solution right and proper law and implemented under Article 140 which provides for the return of displaced people to their towns of Kirkuk and the other and then the normalization of the situation and the referendum and Statistics, the choice of the people as well as to compensate all the Iraqi citizens who have been brought in by the former regime to this pain spokesman compensation materially appropriate solution and first and last, however, the disputed areas. * Is that the sons and provincial aspects of accession to the Kurdistan region? - May not claim currently claim any part of the accession to any territory not under as stipulated in the Constitution and that it is issued by the Presidency of the Republic. * What are the most important projects that will be discussed during the legislative II?. - There are important projects during the second legislative district and the integrity of the law and the laws set forth in the Constitution and the 55 legally addition to the cancellation of the Security Council Kabbadeh revolution dissolved and the pension law, which was put to the vote in the National Assembly earlier, but the Ministry of Finance did not implement this It is reported that the law would be re-examined in the Parliament shortly and there is a law of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers the distribution of oil resources between the government and the provinces. * There are increasing calls to dismantle militias Do your really solve the s? - For militias in Kurdistan is not and we will not be able to say that the militias since it s regular troops have been fighting the former regime since the 1950s to defend the rights of Kurds, after years of change have been distributed s on government centers-the traffic police and the local police, border guards and the National Guard and other services. With regard to other militias must regulate those forces and organize the good from the Section of the armed forces and referred others to civilian jobs while others retired according to the law.

Originally Posted by Socata 850

How do you know there is no RV today? It's only 8:57 in the morning in Baghdad. CBI doesn't even post for another 2 hours or so. Where did you get your info?

I think this is from isx-data.com. But the Central Bank of Iraq has not updated yet.

By Greg Muttitt
Carbon Web
October 2006
Iraqi oil Minister Hussein Shahristani announced last week that he aimed to sign oil production contracts with foreign companies by the end of next year. Notably, the announcement was made in Australia - like most of the significant statements of Iraqi oil policy, it was made to non-Iraqi ears.

The same was true of the confirmation last month of the form of such contracts. Speaking to the conference of the International Compact for Iraq, a meeting of international donors in Abu Dhabi, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, who heads the committee drafting a new oil law, announced that production sharing agreements (PSA) would be used - the type of contract favoured by the companies themselves.

Putting Mr Salih's comments into context, the US government representative to those talks threatened that any future economic assistance to Iraq would be conditional on economic reforms - the priority among which was the passing of an acceptable oil law.

But this announcement was made with unfortunate timing. Just a week later exactly that same structure came under renewed fire in Russia for the unfair deal it gave the state. A dispute flared up when the Russian government announced that it was suspending an environmental permit for the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, which is currently under construction.

The project, on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East, is being developed by a consortium led by European oil giant Shell, together with two Japanese companies. While the Sakhalin-2 project does indeed suffer from serious environmental problems, most analysts believed that Russia's real motivation was to change the unfavourable economic terms.

As Jarmo Kotilaine, a Russia expert for the Control Risks consultancy commented, "In Russia, environmental audits are often politically motivated. What the Russian government wants is a renegotiation of the PSA." This was echoed by Adam Landes, an oil and gas analyst at Moscow-based Renaissance Capital, who said, "It seems to be a brutal way of renegotiating previous deals that were quite humiliating for Russia."

The Sakhalin-2 contract was signed in 1994, while Russia was undergoing rapid economic liberalisation, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ever since then, the contract has been criticised for its economic terms. In January 2005, the Russian audit chamber warned that, "We have drawn a conclusion that PSA terms for Sakhalin-2 are decidedly not beneficial for Russia." Indeed, so unfair were the terms that leading energy economist Ian Rutledge called it a "production non-sharing agreement".

But it was in July 2005, when the costs of the project nearly doubled from $12 billion to $22 billion, that the dispute really intensified. The Sakhalin-2 PSA is structured in such a way that the Russian state receives nothing (apart from a small royalty) until both the costs and a specified profit for Shell have been deducted. The result is that Shell's profits are guaranteed, while the state effectively carries all of the risk of cost over-runs.

Ironically, two of the main arguments commonly given for oil to be developed by foreign companies are that it reduces the state's risk and that only multinational companies have the capacity to manage major projects - something Shell proved by both the cost over-runs and the environmental damage that it was not up to.

However, despite all these problems with the contract Russia does not have the right to revoke, amend or renegotiate it. Even worse, the contract effectively lasts for an indefinite period of time, with an initial period of 25 years, followed by a right for the company to renew it (without consent required by the Russian state) for further periods of five years in perpetuity.

It is for these reasons that Russia was forced to revoke the environmental permit in order to halt the project. Russia has only signed three production sharing agreements, all in the early to mid-1990s. All three were controversial and no more have been signed since. In fact, the other two have also both come under pressure following the Sakhalin-2 dispute.

The parallels with Iraq are striking. All three of Russia’s PSA contracts were signed while the country was in a weak position and going through rapid change. It was only later that it became clear what the country had given up.

But Russia is not the only country that is reconsidering the terms of foreign investment. Bolivia famously nationalised its gas production earlier this year. Algeria and Indonesia have both revised the terms of future oil contracts, and Venezuela has done so for its existing contracts. Thus Iraq - despite being a founder of OPEC, and a leader in taking national control of its oil industry through Law 80 of 1961 - seems to now be bucking the international trend.

So why would Iraq pursue such a policy?

A clue lies in the fact that both the deputy prime minister's announcement that PSAs would be used and the oil minister's statement that they could be signed by the end of next year were made to foreign audiences, not within Iraq. It seems it is outside interests that are driving Iraqi oil policy.

During the drafting of the oil law over the last five months, three consultations have taken place - none of them with Iraqis. The US government and the multinational oil companies were presented the draft law for their comments in July. Last month, the International Monetary Fund joined this list, examining the draft oil law in its quarterly review of the Iraqi government's compliance with its economic conditions.

But the Iraqi people have not been consulted, nor even has the Iraqi parliament. Indeed, Iraqi civil society groups and parliamentarians who have asked to see the draft have been told that it does not exist. Instead it will be presented to the parliament in December, to be pushed through (the government intends) as a fait accompli.

Russia realised the mistakes it made by signing PSA contracts only when it was too late. It remains to be seen whether Iraq follows the same course.

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By Sumedha Senanayake
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
November 9, 2006
On October 22, the Kurdish regional government published the final draft of a petroleum law. The draft document is to be debated within the regional assembly and, if passed, it would place the region's government in opposition to the central government in Baghdad, which has indicated that it will publish its own completed hydrocarbon law sometime in December or early 2007.

If parallel legal frameworks are established in the Kurdish autonomous region and Baghdad, foreign firms wanting to do business may have to sign separate contracts and adhere to the laws of two governments. It therefore remains unclear whether a compromise can be reached between the Kurds and the Iraqi central government, or whether the division of oil revenues will prove to be a source of further instability in a country already reeling from insurgency and sectarian strife.

While violence engulfs much of Iraq and the Baghdad central government continues negotiations over a petroleum law, the Kurds have moved ahead and are poised to pass their own oil law. In addition, they have already signed a handful of contracts with foreign firms to explore oil fields in the north.

Issam al-Chalabi, a former Iraqi oil minister, said the right to control local oil reserves constitutes a major complication between the Kurds and the central government, AP reported on October 25. "The Kurds have submitted a draft petroleum act to be adopted that gives them the right to control oil, regardless of the government in Baghdad. The Oil Ministry has submitted another completely different draft that gives the authority to the ministry, not regions. It's the main issue of the conflict: oil and Kurds," he said.

The establishment of a petroleum law in the Kurdish region not only underscores the decentralization of oil resources, but it constitutes another step in the Kurds' move away from the Baghdad government.

In another area of contention, the Kurdish administration has moved ahead and signed exploration contracts with several foreign oil firms, including the Norwegian oil company DNO and the Turkish firms PetOil and Genel Enerji. The contracts place the local administration at odds with Baghdad by stressing Irbil's autonomy at the expense of the central government.

The issue came to a head when Iraqi Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani told the state-owned daily "Al-Sabah" on September 24 that contracts signed with foreign firms to develop oil fields in the north without the approval of the central government are subject to review by the ministry. Officials in the Oil Ministry also said that foreign firms currently working in the Kurdish region will be banned in the future from signing contracts to develop oil fields in southern Iraq.

In response, Kurdish Prime Minster Nechirvan Barzani said the move would be unconstitutional and he issued a statement suggesting that his government may secede if the contracts are rejected. "If Baghdad ministers refuse to abide by that constitution, the people of Kurdistan reserve the right to reconsider our choice," he said.

The key issue concerns the control and management of so-called "future oil fields." Although Article 108 of the Iraqi Constitution says, "oil and gas are the ownership of all the people of Iraq" and are to be managed by the federal government in conjunction with regional governorates, only "current" oil fields, which are controlled by the central government, are mentioned, not any discovered in the future.

Kurdish Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami insisted that future oil fields in the Kurdish region are to be managed by Irbil and won't be shared with Baghdad, "USA Today" reported on November 6. "In management of new fields, we are adamant that we will not share with the federal government. Planning, coordination -- no problem. But who has the right to write contracts? We can consult with the center, but the ultimate authority lies with the Kurds," he said.

The issue of future oil fields will become all the more significant when the fate of Kirkuk is decided by a referendum in 2007. Recent demographic shifts as part of the Kurds' attempts to reverse the Hussein regime's "Arabization" campaign suggest that Kirkuk may very well have a Kurdish majority, thereby placing the Kurdish government in a good position to annex Kirkuk and take control of its massive oil fields.

The fact that the Kurds have already drafted their own petroleum law even before the creation of a federal law is itself indicative of the strength of Irbil's position, in that the Kurds are a major component of the Shi'ite-led coalition government and without their support the government would probably fall.

Conversely, it may be in the Kurdish administration's interest to back down and show willingness to compromise with Baghdad. The Kurdish region is land-locked and export outlets are crucial. Experts contend that the existing Ceyhan pipeline from northern Iraq to Turkey does not have the capacity to carry additional crude exports. Furthermore, if Kirkuk is annexed by the Kurds, it may complicate matters with Turkey, which is already concerned that the Iraqi Kurds' ambitions of autonomy may incite their own sizable Kurdish population to follow in their footsteps. Even if the dispute is resolved, the oil industry itself is in shambles because of widespread corruption and insurgent attacks.

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, the U.S. agency responsible for overseeing Iraq's reconstruction, issued a report on July 30 describing smuggling as "pervasive," "virtually pandemic," and a threat to Iraq's ability to maintain, let alone increase oil production.

Even though Iraq is rich in crude oil and natural gas, it must import much of its refined petroleum. Years of UN sanctions left much of Iraq's oil infrastructure in a dilapidated condition, crippling its refining capacity.

Finally, caught in the middle of the dispute are the Sunni Arabs, who fear that Iraq is moving toward partition into three sections: a Kurdish north and Shi'ite south, both rich in oil, while the Sunnis are left with a resource-poor center. The Kurds' demands and aggressive posturing might aggravate the Sunnis' feelings of marginalization and provide more fuel for radicals among them.

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DayDream

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I dont see iraq listed in their currency converter... where are you seeing your stuff, DD? thx

Originally Posted by crave681

I dont see iraq listed in their currency converter... where are you seeing your stuff, DD? thx

Originally Posted by day dreamer
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