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يلومThe Iraqi government unable to reconstruction. Some blame

(صوت العراق) - 12-12-2006(Voice of Iraq) - 12-12-2006
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الحكومة العراقية عاجزة عن إعادة الإعمار.. والبعض يلوم إجراءات مكافحة الفسادThe Iraqi government unable to reconstruction. Some blame the action against corruption

ميزانية 2006 كانت 32 مليار دولار لم ينفق منها سوى 15%The 2006 budget of $ 32 billion had been spent only 15%

Iraq faces a failure to spend billions of dollars of oil revenues earmarked for the reconstruction of roads, schools, power stations and repair damaged oil refineries and oil pipelines. Iraqi ministries and spent a total of 15 per cent of its budget for 2006 received for the purposes of reconstruction, with the least expenditure cases in the Ministry of Oil, which depend on pipelines and oil pumping stations destroyed or damaged often for the transport of oil, which provides almost all the country's revenues, is essentially available funds, but the Iraqi regime is not capable of investing.


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Hi neno.

You might want to start a 'Dewey decimal system' in here for the 'Think Tank History'
LOL

You're doing a great job and everybody appreciates it.
Thanks.

Ahill
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Originally Posted by BUCKAROO View Post
"Think Tank History" Post #31389 (page 3139). Think this is the article you are referring to....

So the "History Think Tank" thread was needed. Kinda like a Reference guide. right? Sure glad it is getting used.
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Originally Posted by Wm.Knowles

In any event, its just a matter of TIME. Thank You.

ملاحقة وولفويتز حول دوره في الحربWolfowitz, on the prosecution of its role in the war

2006-12-12 4:00:24 AM2006-12-12 4:00:24 AM

Absolutely protesters of the war in Iraq, word of the head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, the day before yesterday, Sunday, and described it as a war criminal, and said that he lied during the period preceding the war.

It was Wolfowitz, who served as a Vice-American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned, and it was the main advocates for the Iraq war, speaking in the Jewish temple in Atlanta about the importance of Africa to the Americans. During the call to stop a man in the silence of the attendees wearing orange resolved protesters considered a symbol of clothing worn by prisoners in the prison American base of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Sahat and woman while they are taking from the temple "has lied about the Iraq war. You are a war criminal. "

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Originally Posted by SimpleDreams

Check this out!!!

Go to the link, select Iraqi dinar in the window and it appears to forecast the value for Dec 12th. Anyone see this before????

XE.com - Interactive Currency Table

As of 12 Dec 2006 USD United States Dollars 0.0007054176 1,417.6000000000
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Base currency is Iraq Dinars - IQD
Mid-market rates as of 2006-Dec-12 04:40:07 UTC
(GMT) Save money. Click here!!


USD United States Dollars 0.0007054176 1,417.6000000000

Originally Posted by Jola

Baghdad robbers grab $1 million and run

Baghdad robbers grab $1 million and run - Yahoo! News

24 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms ambushed a security vehicle transporting money to the Central Bank in Baghdad and made off with $1 million in cash on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
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Four private security guards were kidnapped in the daylight robbery in busy Sadoun Street in central Baghdad in an attack that highlighted the lawlessness gripping the capital.

The security vehicle was transporting money in sacks from a local bank to the Central Bank in nearby Rasheed Street when it was stopped by about 20 gunmen traveling in three vehicles with no license plates, police and Interior Ministry sources said.


Jeez, why do I have to find the bad news? :((

ITS NOT BAD NEWS!!!! THEY ARE STEALING DOLLARS!!! the *****s will kick themselves with a reval wont they, lol.

In its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals.

The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government.

President Bush hired an employee from the U.S. consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc. over a year ago to advise the Iraq Oil Ministry on the drafting and passage of a new national oil law. As previously drafted, the law opens Iraq's nationalized oil sector to private foreign corporate investment, but stops short of full privatization. The ISG report, however, goes further, stating that "the United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise." In addition, the current Constitution of Iraq is ambiguous as to whether control over Iraq's oil should be shared among its regional provinces or held under the central government. The report specifically recommends the latter: "Oil revenues should accrue to the central government and be shared on the basis of population." If these proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be privatized and opened to foreign firms, and in control of all of Iraq's oil wealth.

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Why they got it wrong
Posted 12/11/2006 7:21 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this



By Ralph Peters
During my childhood, my favorite cartoon character was Mr. Peabody, the professorial dog whose signature line was "Sherman, set the Wayback Machine!" The bespectacled hound and his young human admirer would then be transported by the time machine to one of history's noteworthy moments.
I recalled those cartoons as I read the Iraq Study Group's recommendations, which promised "a new way forward" and delivered, instead, a dubious blueprint for a return to the days when former secretary of State James Baker's generation blindly supported dictators and authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and beyond.

Those stability-first policies played into the hands of demagogues and the disaffected, enabling terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to recruit amid populations deprived of hope. Although the Middle East's core problems are homemade, our embrace — often literal — of mass murderers such as Saddam Hussein and Hafez Assad in Syria exacerbated the region's comprehensive failure.

Now the ISG report, which appears to reflect Baker's world view, resurrects our fateful Cold War-era mistakes with proposals that would reward police states that have promoted chaos in Iraq: By turning to them hat in hand, Baker would further inflate the ambitions of Iran's radical regime while rewarding the cynical — and murderous — behavior of Syria's government. A policy of calculated confrontation would offer more hope — appeasement doesn't work anywhere, but it's especially counterproductive in the Middle East.

The report's capstone recommendations would have little or no useful effect on the security situation in Iraq, but they would penalize our friends to the advantage of our enemies. Arguing that Iraq must be governed by a strong central power and that semiautonomous subregions cannot be tolerated, the report would curtail the freedoms that Iraq's Kurds have enjoyed for the past 15 years, while outraging Iraq's Shiites.

Living in the past

Astonishingly, the report seeks to tie the future of Iraq to a resolution of the Palestinian issue, thus wedding a terribly difficult problem to an intractable one. With Syria once again implicated in the assassination of Lebanon's democratic leadership, Baker would reward the Damascus government by pressuring Israel to hand over the Golan Heights (with his longstanding ties to Saudi Arabia, Baker appears to accept Riyadh's line that all of the region's problems are Israel's fault).

In another illustration of Baker's priorities — he has close ties to the oil industry — the report's core section devotes one brief paragraph to protecting human rights, women and minorities, but it features two lengthy recommendations with 10 supporting actions to develop Iraq's oil industry.

Much of the report reads as if it had been written in 1976, not 2006. It's not a prescription for success, but an attempted revival of yesteryear's failed policies. Those days of supporting strongmen because they were "ours" remain a black mark on our national history. We paid for them on 9/11. We must not shut our eyes to the necessity of change in the Middle East just because the Bush administration's mishandling of Iraq disappointed us.

The Middle East has changed profoundly since Baker's years in government. Instead of the limited political terrorism of the Palestine Liberation Organization, we face fanatics with global ambitions convinced they're doing their god's will by killing. The past 15 years also saw the return of genocidal ethnic thugs out to avenge ancient wrongs, real or imagined. And though you might persuade a human being to change his political beliefs, you will not change his religion and he cannot change his ethnicity.

The geopolitical challenges of Baker's heyday were straightforward compared with those confronting us. Yet his generation's solutions didn't work then, either.

The fatal flaws

The former secretary of State's two primary assumptions are fatally wrong: the belief that stability is the most important international value, and the conviction that borders cannot be permitted to change.

Baker is the man who actually tried to persuade the collapsing Soviet Union to remain whole, then insisted that an ever-shrinking Yugoslavia had to be held together. Now, in the interests of "stability," his group's report would deny even limited autonomy to Iraq's long-suffering Kurds and Shiites.


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Originally Posted by hightide3016

This is strange!! Does anyone have any idea what this means? Is this just a typo or what??

Hi, This is just showing what 1 dinar is worth against 1 USD and then it
shows how many dinars it takes to make 1 USD.

Hope this helps, Lewscrew

Originally Posted by wciappetta

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I wonder if the CBI has been pulling currency out right under our noses since June?

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Anyway thoughts?

And before anyone mentions it this activity might have gone unnoticed by the world financial sectors because of all the publicized unrest and bloodletting which we know has been blown way out of proportion. No one was paying attention.

actually, the researchers have been paying attention, and it started in may.