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

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Originally Posted by jsfletcher

Why do dpeople do this shiite? check out the link. I'm sure Neno saw this, another person crying lop in 07.

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/350/18...1166397916.gif[/QUOTE


Almost like people crying 1.47 in 2006. Works both ways, don't it!

Hey, is this new denom?

Originally Posted by Mike5200

Eye-laser treatment center opened in Erbil


Sima Hospital has opened an eye-laser center in Erbil. Dr. Ali Cholk, administrative director, told a local Kurdish paper that patients pay 15,000 ID for checkups.

All work is performed by laser with modern equipment. Not even Turkey has similar, modern equipment. Two Turkish doctors and a businessman from Hawler helped in the construction and foundation of the hospital, where two Kurdish doctors work.
Source: The Kurdish Globe






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Posted on Sunday, December 17

I am not sure where else you can have laser eye Tx. for 10.00 US. Makes you wonder

does this look familiar.

1976 etiopian moneyhttp://www.kcshop.com/fc/p.php?pic=F3603

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

does this look familiar.

1976 etiopian moneyhttp://www.kcshop.com/fc/p.php?pic=F3603

Nice find! So much for the lop!
12-31-06 at $1.20^

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

does this look familiar.

1976 etiopian moneyhttp://www.kcshop.com/fc/p.php?pic=F3603

Great investigative work there fletch.

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

does this look familiar.

1976 etiopian moneyhttp://www.kcshop.com/fc/p.php?pic=F3603

Computer - $1200
Photoshop - $700
Time to alter - 5 hours

Blowing this hoax out of the water with one link - PRICELESS!!!

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

does this look familiar.

1976 etiopian moneyhttp://www.kcshop.com/fc/p.php?pic=F3603

That's what was bugging me!!! I had an Ethiopian client who looks so much like that child, they could be related!

I do so hate when something strikes me but the reason eludes me!

Here's a unique Christmas Poem....Off topic but I wanted to share it....





A DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS POEM..........Very touching

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,

My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,

Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,

Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,

Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.



The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,

But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,

Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,

And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,

A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.



A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,

Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,

Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,

"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!

Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,

You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"



For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,

Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light

Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night." "It's my duty to stand at the
Front of the line,

That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me ,

I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"

Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam',

And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,

But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.



Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,

The red, white, and blue... An American flag.

I can live through the cold and the being alone,

Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,

I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.

I can carry the weight of killing another,

Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..

Who stand at the front against any and all,

To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."



"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,

Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,

"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done,

For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,

"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,

To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,

To know you remember we fought and we bled.

Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,

That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN

30th Naval Construction Regiment

OIC, Logistics Cell One

Al Taqqadum, Iraq


Sorry Neno, I know you'll place this where it belongs but I liked it!

God Bless America

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

Why do dpeople do this shiite? check out the link. I'm sure Neno saw this, another person crying lop in 07.

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/350/18...1166397916.gif

I've heard many here mention a poster "Vanquish" and what I've gathered is that he's not a very popular person. I don't personally have any knowledge about the person, but, it seems that he's the trouble maker here.

from the forum that had the original post:
"Hsiu Qnav"

it is "Vanquish" backwards

first of 4 pages- follow link : USNews.com: There Are Big Stakes and Bubbling Tensions Over Who Will Control Iraq's Oil Capital

This Land is My Land
The big stakes-and bubbling tensions-over who will control Iraq's oil capital
By Anna Mulrine

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006

KIRKUK, IRAQ-There are signs throughout this oil-rich city that after a decades-long diaspora, the Kurds are returning. In Kurdish neighborhoods, new homes are going up left and right, and graffiti classifieds on the walls near busy thoroughfares advertise scarce real estate for those who can afford it; those who can't squat in bombed-out military bases and office buildings. The soccer stadium is a makeshift camp filled with hundreds of Kurdish refugees who are, as described by U.S. military officials, "in a holding pattern."

What, exactly, they're waiting for is at the heart of a high-stakes tug of war that is ratcheting up tensions in advance of a 2007 referendum here-a constitutionally mandated vote that will determine whether or not Kirkuk becomes part of the Kurdish regional government to the north. The prize is a diverse land that is big money for the rest of the country: Kirkuk's oil fields are the largest and potentially most productive in the country, accounting for close to half of Iraq's oil exports and roughly 6 percent of all Mideast oil reserves. It is a vote that many expect will be a flashpoint, with plenty of jockeying for position among Kirkuk's rival political parties and ethnic groups. "We'll have to be on our guard," Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, tells U.S. News. "Tension will certainly be high."

"Second fiddle." That tension was evident here last week, when some 2,000 Kurds marched through the city to protest recommendations from the Iraq Study Group that the referendum be postponed. "Given the very dangerous situation in Kirkuk," the report reads, "a referendum on the future of Kirkuk ... would be explosive and should be delayed." The Kurds were not pleased, and Kurdish regional government head Massoud Barzani, long a U.S. ally, became the first Iraqi official to come out against the study, warning that any delay in the vote would lead to "grave consequences." Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, issued a statement backing Barzani. It was a development closely watched by U.S. officials largely because, in the words of one American official, "the Kurds have the power to bring down the government."

Forced to flee the land in a brutal campaign of "Arabization" launched by Saddam Hussein in the 1970s, Kurds here are adamant that the region around Kirkuk is their birthright. But opposition party critics charge that Arabs and Turkmens are being forced out of the region in what they characterize as a campaign of Kurdish intimidation. "The situation is getting worse," Rakan Saaid, an Arab provincial council member in Kirkuk, tells U.S. News. "We have seen random raids, property damage, and detainees-picked up for no reason-moved to northern jails." Arabs and Turkmens also protest that new Kurdish arrivals here-many of whom, they say, have no previous ties to Kirkuk-are being lured in large part by funds doled out by Kurdish political parties to ensure that they have the votes they need to win the referendum.

Indeed, many Arabs drawn here 30 years ago by promises of new lives and stable jobs say that they do not want to leave-particularly when that means relocating to more violent regions in Iraq. "My kids were born here," says one Arab shop owner in a mixed neighborhood downtown. "I want to stay." Simply and politely-but repeatedly-Kurds insist that Arabs living in homes that once belonged to Kurds really don't have a choice. Some 7,000 Arab families-which U.S. officials say amounts to roughly 50,000 people-have already expressed a willingness to pack up and go, Kurdish spokesmen point out. "The Arabs have to realize that they got their privileges on the backs of the Kurdish people," says Kirkuk's Provincial Council Chairman Rizgar Ali Hamajan. "How would you feel if you go back to your country, and someone from Canada is living in your house?" American officials worry that more heated conflicts over homes could erupt in the coming months. Asks Col. Patrick Stackpole, commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division in Kirkuk: "What is this tension going to look like when people decide not to go? We solve that on a case-by-case basis. It's concerning, of course."