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

Originally Posted by michaeljordan

Honestly, I don't think they even know what the hell they want to do...

Personally I think they know exactly what to do but don't tell anything.

If it was leaked out that they will set the rate at 1:1 it will cost them a fortune and they can better use it for their reconstruction.

They have planned it very well from the beginning, I am convinced of that.

Watch this it is really good!!!!!!

Multi-National Force - Iraq - Freedom Journal Iraq Episode 539

Dinar-Excited

Dec. 12, 2006, 3:23AM
Pentagon antidote to Iraq chaos: jobs
Group looking to bring life back to factories that were abandoned

Washington Post
Pentagon antidote to Iraq chaos: jobs | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle


WASHINGTON — As Iraq descends further into violence and disarray, the Pentagon is turning to a weapon some believe should have been used years ago: jobs.

Members of a small Pentagon task force have gone to the most dangerous areas of Iraq over the past six months to bring life to nearly 200 state-owned factories abandoned by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Their goal is to employ tens of thousands of Iraqis in coming months, part of a plan to reduce soaring unemployment and lessen violence.

Defense officials and military commanders say that festering unemployment — at 70 percent in some areas — is leading Iraqi men to take cash from insurgents to place bombs on roads or take shots at U.S. troops. Other Iraqis are joining sectarian attacks because their quality of life has slipped dramatically, officials say.

Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the top U.S. field commander in Iraq, said that tackling unemployment could do far more good than adding U.S. combat troops or more aggressively pursuing an elusive enemy. He said the project to stimulate local economies was born "of desperation."

"We need to put the angry young men to work," Chiarelli said in a phone interview from Baghdad. "One of the key hindrances to us establishing stability in Iraq is the failure to get the economy going. A relatively small decrease in unemployment would have a very serious effect on the level of sectarian killing going on."

The CPA initially hoped private investors would buy or lease the state factories, but that did not happen as security faltered and much of Iraq became inaccessible. As privatization hopes failed, the factories were languishing, some in pristine form and others looted, when the Pentagon task force examined them this fall. The tens of thousands of Iraqis who used to make them run — the country's second-largest employment group, after the army — remained out of work.

Pentagon officials say the vast majority of former Iraqi factory workers are still unemployed and bringing in no pay.

Originally Posted by Jola

Dec. 12, 2006, 3:23AM
Pentagon antidote to Iraq chaos: jobs
Group looking to bring life back to factories that were abandoned

Pentagon officials say the vast majority of former Iraqi factory workers are still unemployed and bringing in no pay.

WELL I'LL BE A MONKEY'S UNCLE!!
THE PENTAGON IS """"FINALLY""""" GETTING IT!!!
WELL THIS DOES SHOW THEY ARE NOT THE BRIGHTEST CRAYON IN THE BOX.

OOPS GUESS ONE OF US SHOULD HAVE CALLED THEM WHAT??? 2 YEARS AGO??? LAST YEAR??? LAST MONTH??? AND TOLD THEM """"READ THE ROLCLUB - THEY HAVE THE ANSWERS FOR YOU"""" GIVE THEM JOBS, THEY GO TO WORK, BUST THEIR TAILS FOR THE FAMILY EVERY DAY AND ALL THEY WILL WANT TO DO IS GO HOME AND WATCH TV!!

Just curious...But when all these laws are finally put into the Official Gazette...How will we know what it says? Can anyone read Arabic?

Cheers!
DayDream

Originally Posted by Dinar-Excited

The Oil investment law, completed its final stages
The Iraqi Oil investment law, completed its final stages
12/12/2006

Source: Translated by IRAQdirectory.com

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that his government had completed the preparation of a law encourages foreign investment in the oil and gas industry in the country and will submit it to Parliament for ratification. "](I believe this part of the article is new dated 12/12/2006, but the rest of this article is a repeat of an old article. We've read this lower part a few days ago about needing another week to 10 days.
I believe there combining old articles with new ones to confuse everybody, or keep everybody from really knowing what's going on.)
{THOSE SNEEKY FOXES, THEY CAN'T OUT FOX ROLCLUB} But members of the Committee, which is working to prepare the law, were more cautious; they pointed out that they have done most of the work but they need another week or ten days to complete.{REPEAT OF OLD NEWS ARTICLE}

There are foreign investments with billions of dollars to exploit the third largest oil reserves in the world, pending the adoption of an appropriate legal framework [/color]

http://www.iraqdirectory.com/DisplayNews.aspx?id=2741

Dinar-Excited

KEEP THE FAITH EVERYBODY

Originally Posted by MrsCK

WELL I'LL BE A MONKEY'S UNCLE!!
THE PENTAGON IS """"FINALLY""""" GETTING IT!!!
WELL THIS DOES SHOW THEY ARE NOT THE BRIGHTEST CRAYON IN THE BOX.

OOPS GUESS ONE OF US SHOULD HAVE CALLED THEM WHAT??? 2 YEARS AGO??? LAST YEAR??? LAST MONTH??? AND TOLD THEM """"READ THE ROLCLUB - THEY HAVE THE ANSWERS FOR YOU"""" GIVE THEM JOBS, THEY GO TO WORK, BUST THEIR TAILS FOR THE FAMILY EVERY DAY AND ALL THEY WILL WANT TO DO IS GO HOME AND WATCH TV!!

Kind of ironic. Most of us here want to Stay Home and Watch TV because we have spent numerous years Working the daily grind and Busting our Tails.

Originally Posted by DayDream

Just curious...But when all these laws are finally put into the Official Gazette...How will we know what it says? Can anyone read Arabic?

Cheers!
DayDream

ahhhhh, we have the magic of google translate

OK ON THE DEC. 8, 2006 PDF FILE THAT IS 30 PAGES LONG - READING TO TRY AND FIND YA'LL "HIGHLIGHT" HERE IS WHAT IS SAID ON PAGE 12:

Iraq’s International Obligations
In its January 2004 report, CBO indicated that Iraq’s external debt, including war
reparations stemming from the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, could play a significant role
in the country’s ability to pay for reconstruction. Since then, however, negotiations
between the Iraqi government and its creditors to delay, substantially reduce, or eliminate
Iraq’s external obligations appear to have made enough progress that paying those
obligations will consume few of Iraq’s budgetary resources through 2010.
After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s government in March 2003, both U.S. and
Iraqi officials recognized that a key issue in Iraq’s ability to pay for reconstruction was
the international obligations inherited from the previous regime. At the time CBO
published its previous report, considerable uncertainty existed about the amount of
Iraq’s external obligations. Today, much (though not all) of that uncertainty has been
resolved.
According to information from the IMF and the U.S. Treasury, at the time of the
U.S.-led invasion, Iraq owed about $120 billion to dozens of countries and private
entities:
B $36 billion to member nations of the Paris Club,17
B About $62 billion to countries that are not members of the Paris Club (mostly
Persian Gulf states),18 and
B $21 billion to private entities.
Since the invasion, Iraq has also incurred a small amount of debt to multilateral
institutions, such as the IMF and World Bank, that is not subject to debt-reduction
negotiations.
Iraq’s negotiations with Paris Club members yielded an agreement to reduce the debt
owed to them by about 80 percent, implemented in three stages.19 The first stage was
an immediate reduction of 30 percent, effective with the signing of the Paris Club
agreement in November 2004. The second stage was another 30 percent reduction of
the original total once Iraq had agreed to a program of fiscal and macroeconomic
17. The Paris Club is an informal group of governments—mainly of Western industrialized countries—
to whom most of the debt of developing countries is owed.
18. The precise number is uncertain because Iraq and many of the non-Paris-Club creditors do not yet
agree on the exact amount that is owed.
19. The Iraqi government had to negotiate with each Paris Club member individually. Some countries,
such as the United States, offered complete debt forgiveness.

THE FOOT NOTE ON PAGE 3: 9. In addition to repaying its foreign debt, the Iraqi government is required by U.N. Security Council
resolution 1483 to devote 5 percent of its gross oil-export revenues to paying reparations claims
that resulted from Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.


GOOD STUFF HERE TO READ - SO WILL POST ANYTHING ELSE I FIND.

Appears Maliki and the many Parliamentarians are going amok with excitement themselves that they are loosing their sights with the weeks they've been trying to kid the rest of the world watchin them with their predictions... and we have plenty followers here too trailing close behind...

Whatever it takes and the time it needs, it's coming... but it sure looks after the New Year...so, save your champagne bottles and cock them nonetheless at midnight at the stroke of 12, January 1st, 2007!


YB.