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

We need Offshore Mike or Adster to give us an update. Cigarman

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jun. 20, 2006
By KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer

(AP) A key al-Qaida in Iraq leader described as the group's "religious emir" was killed in a U.S. airstrike hours before two American soldiers went missing and in the same area, the military said Tuesday.

Mansour Suleiman Mansour Khalifi al-Mashhadani, or Sheik Mansour, and two foreign fighters were killed as they tried to flee in a vehicle near the town of Youssifiyah, in the so-called Sunni "Triangle of Death."

U.S. coalition forces had been tracking al-Mashhadani for some time, American military spokesman William Caldwell said in announcing his death. He said al-Mashhadani was an Iraqi, 35 to 37 years old, and that one of the men killed with him was an al-Qaida cell leader identified as Abu Tariq.

Mansour "reportedly served as a right-hand man of Zarqawi's, and also served as a liaison between al-Qaida in Iraq and the various tribes in the Youssifiyah area, as well as playing a key role in their media operations," Caldwell said.

Citing intelligence sources, Caldwell also said Mansour was responsible for the shooting down of a coalition aircraft this spring.

A photo identified Mansour as a masked figure sitting on the floor with al-Zarqawi.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...8IC3JM00.shtml

Inflation is and will continue in Iraq. The Government is planning on reducing subsidies for oil exporters and raising the gas/oil prices much higher to match those of other oil producers in the Middle East. This will cause more hardship for the average Iraqi as it will force even more inflation. So, what would be one potential solution to all these adjustments? :)

Also, the raids happening in Baghdad caused a spike in food prices:
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0615/p01s04-woiq.html

As the crackdown loomed, some Iraqis were keeping identity cards close at hand so that they could produce them quickly for officers conducting raids. And they were stocking up on nonperishable canned goods and rice. The cost of 30 eggs jumped from 3,750 Iraqi dinar ($2.55) on Monday to 4,500 dinar ($3.06) the next day.

Quote-So what would be one potential solution to all these adjustments?
Answer- A Reval!!!!! Cigarman

I sure hope this all pays off, and the reval is high, If not i will probably be on my way to a divorce. after 41 years of hard labor, and smooth waters in marriage . LOL This Wait is driving me up a wall! I think i am going to have to join D.A. (Dinar Aholics) waiting on 2 good things SI (July 3) and Dinar reval take a guess on the date for that to happen. good night all, see you all tomorrow.

Originally Posted by bob1940

I sure hope this all pays off, and the reval is high, If not i will probably be on my way to a divorce. after 41 years of hard labor, and smooth waters in marriage . LOL This Wait is driving me up a wall! I think i am going to have to join D.A. (Dinar Aholics) waiting on 2 good things SI (July 3) and Dinar reval take a guess on the date for that to happen. good night all, see you all tomorrow.

bob1940 you opened up for this one to me.And I got to comment. I bought my Dinars and don't care if it takes 10 years. Now I would like it to peg yesterday. But you say smooth waters in a good marriage partner, Say My Freind that is worth more than any amount of dinars money what ever, Listen Bob I have one million and could buy lots more. But hey your ahead by what you have. You need no more. Have patients on what you have. You need the waters to stay smooth my freind.
Just my 2 cents worth since we have no peg for dinar cents.
Your Freind.

I have a question. Adster and Mike "where are you"? I wait every afternoon and night for you two to post. Are we missing something? "I know I am, I hang on every work" Janet

Good posts pipshurricane


Japan Withdraws Troops from Iraq
By Claudia Blume
Hong Kong
20 June 2006


Japan will soon withdraw its ground troops from Iraq, saying its humanitarian mission there has been successful.

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced the withdrawal of the country's troops from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Tuesday.

Mr. Koizumi says the government has decided to withdraw Ground Self Defense Forces troops from Samawah because the troops have achieved their humanitarian and reconstruction goals there.

Mr. Koizumi said the 600 troops, who were sent to Iraq in early 2004, have helped rebuild the infrastructure around Samawah.

The deployment to Iraq was Japan's first military mission to a country at war since the Second World War. The move won Mr. Koizumi praise from Washington but was opposed by a majority of Japanese. Many people said it contradicts the country's pacifist constitution.

Japan's post-war constitution bans its troops from using force except in self-defense.

In Iraq, the Japanese troops relied on British and Australian troops in the area for protection. The Japanese contingent suffered no casualties.

Mr. Koizumi said the decision to withdraw the troops came after Iraq's new government announced on Monday that its forces would take over security in the area. British troops currently oversee a multinational contingent providing security in that region.

The withdrawal of the Japanese troops is expected to be completed by the end of next month.

However, Japanese officials say an Air Self Defense Force operation in Iraq is likely to continue. The air operation ferries supplies and personnel into Iraq to help the government and the U.S.-led coalition.

i don't think anything is going to happen anytime soon.
anyway, has anyone used dinartrade.com? they are about $24 cheaper than ompus (for 100k d).

this is the wrong forum for this but does anyone in This forum actually think pips can do any kind of come back!? and or that there's some official "investigation". maybe the latter...but i think That was more to just shut it down that anything else. all they have to do is, nothing.

guess i'll be getting another 100k. hopefully i can hit 1m before it may peg. i'll have given it my best shot... gamble that is.

i hope when and if it pegs they don't come out with some targeted restrictions - for us speculators. or war profiteers.

Iraq oil minister criticises Iran over smuggling
21/06/2006
Source: Reuters AlertNet


Iraq's new oil minister accused Iranian coastguards on Tuesday of protecting smugglers shipping oil out of Iraq.

"We blame the Iranian coastguards for letting Iraqi smugglers' boats ... reach the Iranian coast and protecting them until they reach the open sea," Hussain al-Shahristani said in an interview on state television in which he said he would crack down on corruption and crime to improve supplies and revenues.

Asked by Iraqiya television if he had protested to Tehran, Shahristani declined to comment further.

Smuggling abroad of oil purchased in Iraq at subsidised prices is blamed by officials for shortages for consumers in a country with the world's third biggest confirmed oil reserves and also for losses of government revenues.

Smuggled oil is shipped from Iraq's southern fields around Basra, across the Shatt al-Arab waterway dividing Iraq from Iran and down the Iranian coast into the open waters of the Gulf.

Shahristani, a Shi'ite Islamist appointed last month whose political allies are close to Iran, said his ministry was clamping down on subsidised sales and freezing out middlemen.

He said Iraq had problems with other neighbouring states. Smugglers also take oil out through Turkey and Syria, officials say. Shahristani alluded to disputes over the extraction of oil from fields that lie across its borders -- these are notably on the border with Kuwait, but also Iran.

"We have other problems with most of our neighbours, regarding smuggling and exploiting shared fields," he said.

The rise of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority since the fall of Saddam Hussein has brought Baghdad's government close to Shi'ite Iran, with which Saddam fought a major war in the 1980s.