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

Normally they (VOI) always have an article about the CBI auction.

I haven't seen one today, except the part of Susie!!

I love those 5k notes, beautiful, poetry in motion, thank fack we have numerous million of them, lol.




Bank Notes

Boycotting Iraqi lawmakers, Cabinet ministers set conditions for returning to work
30 November 2006 (Associated Press)

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must improve security and provide more reliable electricity and other basic services before Shiite politicians end a boycott of the government launched to protest the premier's summit with U.S. President George W. Bush, a top legislator said Thursday.

The boycott by ministers and lawmakers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is not affecting many vital ministries, and one striking minister said work continues at his office even with him gone.

But the walkout has driven home the fragility of al-Maliki's coalition government of feuding Shiites, Sunni Arabs, Kurds and secularists.

Top Shiite legislator Baha al-Aaraji said in a telephone interview that to end the boycott there must be an increase in the number of well-trained Iraqi security forces, and the government must provide more electricity, gas and other basic services, especially in southern provinces that are less violent than central and northern Iraq. In Baghdad and other cities, residents often have no electricity or water supplies for much of the day.

Al-Aaraji would not answer further questions.

One of the main goals of the U.S. coalition is to train enough Iraqi soldiers and police to take over its security responsibilities, especially in particularly violent areas such as western Iraq, where al-Qaida in Iraq is powerful, and Baghdad, where fighting between Sunni militants and Shiite militias is escalating.

After his summit with al-Maliki in Jordan on Thursday, Bush said they both have agreed to speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces, but that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq as long as needed to strengthen the prime minister's authority.

"One of his frustrations with me is that he believes that we've been slow about giving him the tools necessary to protect the Iraqi people," Bush said during a joint news conference with al-Maliki in Amman. "Today we had a meeting that will accelerate the capacity for the prime minister to do the hard work necessary to help stop this violence."

In Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday that Iraqi forces had found 28 bodies the day before in what may be a mass grave south of the city of Baqouba. For about a week, heavy fighting between Iraqi police and Sunni insurgents has killed scores of people in and around Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

In the southern city of Basra, gunmen killed Nasir Gatami, the deputy of the local Sunni Endowment chapter, and three of his bodyguards in an attack on their two-car convoy, police said. The Endowment, which confirmed the attack, was created to care for Sunni mosques across Iraq. In the past four months, 23 employees of its employees have been kidnapped in Baghdad, reportedly by suspected Shiite militias.

The U.S. command said Thursday that an American soldier was killed the day before during combat in Baghdad, raising to at least 2,884 the number of U.S. service members who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war.

The boycott by Shiite legislators and ministers doesn't affect top ministries in al-Maliki's government such as foreign, defense, oil, finance, interior, justice or trade. The boycotting Shiite Cabinet members include the ministers of agriculture, health, transport and public works.

Liwa Smeism, one of the boycotting Cabinet ministers, said Thursday that the Shiite boycott wouldn't stop all work at government offices such as his Ministry of State of Tourism and Archaeological Affairs.

"We are protesting, not closing the ministries. The undersecretaries and other officials are running them. If my decision is needed at my ministry, my staff can call me up at home," he said in a telephone interview.

Smeism said the participating ministers are "suspending our participation in the Cabinet meetings until we get new directions from our leaders of the boycott."

Like, al-Aaraji, Smeism declined to comment on the decision by al-Maliki and King Abdullah II of Jordan to abruptly back out of a meeting with Bush in Amman on Wednesday night.

In announcing the boycott Wednesday, the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the summit in Jordan constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights."

The Sadrists had threatened to quit the government and the 275-member parliament if al-Maliki went ahead with the summit. But by downgrading their protest to a suspension of membership, they left open a return to their jobs.

Boycotting Iraqi lawmakers, Cabinet ministers set conditions for returning to work | Iraq Updates

Originally Posted by Adster

I love those 5k notes, beautiful, poetry in motion, thank fack we have numerous million of them, lol.




Bank Notes

If you love them too much, don't exchange them, use it as wallpaper so you can always enjoy it!

Adam I have some 250 notes and also a couple of 50 dinar notes. have had them from the first order i got.

Originally Posted by Precocious

Lots of tough news today.
Perhaps a December to remember...

NOVEMBER.....TODAY IS NOT OVER YET....!

ADAM I just got up Late sleeper today. what is verdict for the RV today?

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

NOVEMBER.....TODAY IS NOT OVER YET....!

You are right, but I think that Shabibi is teasing you.

He will announce it at 00:01 that's 1 december!!

Originally Posted by kiko

If you love them too much, don't exchange them, use it as wallpaper so you can always enjoy it!

Will save that for the smaller denoms and decorate the new games room with them!!! LOL.

Originally Posted by bob1940

ADAM I just got up Late sleeper today. what is verdict for the RV today?

We are still hopeful for today Bob. At least I am.

Charmed I am with ya man.....today could still happen.

I stayed up and watched the press conference, not going to work today. They didn't really say a lot in the conference. The best thing that I heard was that Maliki was frustrated because he didn't have the "tools" needed to control the sectarian violence. GW said he would get the necessary tools to do the job. Here's hoping...
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