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

Zebari confirmed that the meeting between Bush and Al-Maliki was agreed
Egyptian Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari that "the meeting between President George Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Amman late this month was agreed." Zebari added in a press statement that "what most would be discussed is the recent Security Council resolution on the extension of the stay of the multinational forces for another year, in addition to organizing the relationship between the Iraqi government and the multinational forces. " He pointed out that "these continuous meetings between President Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to coordinate positions and address the intricacies of the relationship and cooperation in order to achieve security and stability in Iraq."

(8:21 Baghdad time)

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Boards of Basrah, Dhi Qar, Muthanna, Najaf meet in Cairo
Scheduled to meet in Cairo today, Thursday, more than fifty people from the boards of the governorates of Basra, Dhi Qar and Muthanna and Najaf to discuss improving the security situation and promote economic development in all areas of southern Iraq. A spokesman for the Department for International Development, which is leading the British team, said, "This conference, which lasts five days, is part of a series of conferences held in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon". The spokesman added that "the aim of the conference is to define a number of local officials in the provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar and Muthanna and Najaf on the experience of other countries successful in the area of local governance"

(8:01 Baghdad time)

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Announcement No.(812)

D.G. of Foreign Exchange Control

The 812 daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq day Thursday 2006 / 11/ 23 so the results were as follows :

Details Notes
Number of banks 6 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1441 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ ------ -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 5.290.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) ------
Total offers for buying (US $) 5.330.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) ------ -----
Cash amounts sold to the bank and its customers were USD(1.290.000) at a rate of(1441+1+10=1452)IQD\USD .
The amount sold to make transfers abroad was USD (4.000.000) at a rate of (1441-2)+ one dinar as a bank fee and exempt the transferred amount from conversion fee.


D.G. of Investments

Daily price Bulletin buying and selling Thursday 2006/11/23

Currency

Currency Code

Selling Price In IQD

Buying Price In IQD

US Dollar

USD

1444.000

1443.278

European Euro

EUR

1866.803

1865.870

Sterling Pound

GBP

2764.538

2763.156

Canadian Dollar

CAD

1265.113

1264.480

Swiss Frank

CHF

1176.279

1175.691

Sweetish Krone

SEK

205.695

205.592

Norwegian Krone

NOK

226.219

226.106

Denmark Krone

DKK

250.364

250.239

Japanese Yen

JPY

12.383

12.377

The above price represent reference rate and does not from any commitment on the Central Bank of Iraq.

Saleh calls on political leaders to confronting the militias and armed groups
The Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih political leaders in Iraq to take urgent action to stop the bloodshed and confronting the militias and armed groups. Saleh emphasized in an interview before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the European Union in Brussels the government's determination to succeed and the preservation of democracy emerging in which Iraqis live. " He called on the international community and the European Union stand with Iraq in crossing this stage, in particular, and that the Iraqi government has a comprehensive plan and the work with the international community. "

(7:43 Baghdad time)

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Officials deny reports of Cheney in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Officials deny reports of Cheney in Iraq By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago



BAGDHAD, Iraq - Iraqi state television reported Thursday that Vice President Dick Cheney was in Baghdad, but U.S. officials said Cheney was not in the capital.

State-run Iraqiya TV and the private Al-Arabiya TV station reported that Cheney had arrived in the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, apparently to visit American troops for the Thanksgiving holiday.

But Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said that the vice president was not in Iraq "as far as we know."

When the vice president's office announced late Wednesday that he would leave Washington on Friday for a trip to Saudi Arabia, it gave no indication that he also would visit Iraq.

For security reasons, previous visits to Iraq by President Bush, Cheney and other high administration officials have not been made public in advance, but have been disclosed immediately upon their arrival — regardless of whether they were accompanied by reporters or traveling without a press contingent.

For example, Attorney General Albert Gonzales traveled unannounced and without reporters to Iraq in August, but his visit was disclosed to the press in Baghdad and Washington immediately upon his arrival.

In an early morning raid, U.S. and Iraqi forces swept into Baghdad's Sadr City slum Thursday, killing four Iraqis, wounding eight and detaining five, police said.

Police Capt. Mohammed Ismail said coalition forces searched houses at about 4:30 a.m. and opened fire on a minivan carrying Iraqi workers in the al-Fallah Street area, causing the deaths and injuries. Iraqis often pay a small fee to crowd into such vehicles and travel early in the morning to sites where they hope to be hired as day laborers.

The U.S. command said it could not immediately confirm Thursday's raid, which would be the fourth in six days on the Shiite slum home to the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The Mahdi Army is suspected of kidnapping an American soldier last month and taking scores of Iraqi hostages during an attack on a government building in Baghdad on Nov. 14.

Ismail said the coalition also detained five Iraqis during the raid.

Residents of Sadr City gathered around the bloodstained, bullet-riddled minivan.

"I was surprised by the heavy shooting on our minivan. I was hit badly in my left hand," said one worker, Ahmed Gatie, 24, as he was treated at Imam Ali hospital. "I can only feed my family when I work. What will happen now?"

Witness Salah Salman, 24, said he and other local residents helped police carry victims of the attack from the minivan to the morgue and hospital.

The raid came weeks after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, ordered the U.S. military to lift a blockade of the sprawling east Baghdad grid of streets lined with tumbledown concrete block structures and vacant lots.

American forces had sealed the district for several days looking for kidnapped U.S. soldier Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, a 41-year-old reservist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was visiting his Iraqi wife in Baghdad on Oct. 23 when he was handcuffed and abducted by suspected rogue gunmen from the Mahdi Army.

Al-Sadr is a major political backer of al-Maliki, who had rejected American demands to disband the heavily armed militias and their death squads, which have carried out a brutal campaign of revenge attacks on Iraq's Sunni minority in a cycle of violence following the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine.

But Al-Maliki has looked the other way during the most recent joint U.S.-Iraqi raids, an about-face his aides said was prompted by anger over the U.S. soldier's abduction and a mass kidnapping carried out by suspected Mahdi Army gunmen. Dozens of gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped scores of people during the raid on a Ministry of Higher Education office in Baghdad on Nov. 14. The ministry is predominantly Sunni Arab.

At least 101 Iraqis were killed Wednesday and the U.N. reported that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll of the war and one that is likely to be eclipsed when November's dead are counted.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq also said that citizens were fleeing the country at a pace of 100,000 each month, and that at least 1.6 million Iraqis have left since the war began in March 2003.

Life for Iraqis, especially in Baghdad and cities and towns in the center of the country, has become increasingly untenable. Many schools failed to open at all in September, and professionals — especially professors, physicians, politicians and journalists — are falling to sectarian killers at a stunning rate.

Lynchings have been reported as Sunnis and Shiites conduct a merciless campaign of revenge killings.

The U.N. figure for the number of killings in October was more than three times the 1,216 tabulated by The Associated Press and nearly 840 more than the 2,870 U.S. service members who have died during the war.

The U.S. military on Thursday reported the deaths of three Marines in fighting in Anbar province, where many Sunni Arab insurgents are based.

So far this month, 52 American service members have been killed or died.


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Officials deny reports of Cheney in Iraq - Yahoo! News

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Officials deny reports of Cheney in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Officials deny reports of Cheney in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Hmmmmm, that US Vault full o' dinar should come in handy soon....

Assignment of the bill ratifying the Convention between Iraq

(Voice of Iraq) - 11-23-2006
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The Republic of Iraq
Council of Ministers-the governmental communications
Media Relations
Press Release Press release /
Thursday, 11-23-2006


Assignment of the bill ratifying the agreement between Iraq and the Office of the European group to the House of Representatives for approval


Public Service referred ministries in the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers a draft law ratifying the Convention between the Republic of Iraq and the Office of the European group to the House of Representatives for approval after the Cabinet approval on the project during its regular fifth session, and he held on the 17th of this month.

Prime Minister to preside over the reconstruction of mosques

(Voice of Iraq) - 11-23-2006
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Council of Ministers-the governmental communications
Media Relations
A press statement / Press Release
Thursday, 11-23-2006


Prime Minister to preside over the rebuilding of mosques and Hussainiyat
The churches affected

The Cabinet decided at its regular meeting on the 9th of this month the formation of a ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister and the ministers of finance, planning and development cooperation, construction and housing, municipalities and public works, in addition to the Secretary of Baghdad, a key Cabinet Aloaqvin Shiite and Sunni.

The committee is the task of overseeing the reconstruction of the two mosques and churches affected by the terrorist attacks.

Referring bill drafted by the Ministry of State for National Security

(Voice of Iraq) - 11-23-2006
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Thursday, 11-23-2006


Referring bill drafted by the Ministry of State for National Security Affairs to the House of Representatives


Public Service referred ministries in the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers the draft Law on the Ministry of State for National Security Affairs to the House of obtaining approval of the Ministry of national security and a ministerial portfolio after the Council of Ministers will approve the draft law during its regular fifth session, held in the ninth p the evil of this month.

Cheney hit Baghdad to celebrate Thanksgiving celebration with the troops

(Voice of Iraq) - 11-23-2006
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Television : Cheney hit Baghdad to celebrate Thanksgiving celebration with American forces
(To add details and background)
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
Television (Iraqi) official that Vice-President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad by American today, Thursday, in a surprise visit to celebrate Thanksgiving celebration with the American forces.
Cheney is seen as one of the most important architects of the invasion by the United States-led Iraq along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who submitted his resignation after the defeat of the Republican Party in the elections of the half renewal Congress held this month.
Cheney's office said yesterday, Wednesday, that the Vice President will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday to hold talks with the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah.
The Cheney meeting with the Saudi monarch at a time when Washington considering changing its strategy in Iraq.