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

CBI has changed......1352

Originally Posted by day dreamer

Announcement No.(832)

D.G. of Foreign Exchange Control

The 832 daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq day Sunday 2006 / 12/ 24 so the results were as follows :

Details Notes
Number of banks 9 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1352 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ 1350 -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 11.635.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) 2.150.000
Total offers for buying (US $) 11.635.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) 2.150.000 -----





D.G. of Investments

Daily price Bulletin buying and selling Sunday 2006/12/24

Currency
Currency Code
Selling Price In IQD
Buying Price In IQD

US Dollar
USD
1360.000
1358.000

European Euro
EUR
1785.816
1784.923

Sterling Pound
GBP
2661.520
2660.189

Canadian Dollar
CAD
1174.946
1174.359

Swiss Frank
CHF
1114.115
1113.558

Sweetish Krone
SEK
198.764
198.664

Norwegian Krone
NOK
217.799
217.690

Denmark Krone
DKK
239.643
239.524

Japanese Yen
JPY
11.438
11.432


The above price represent reference rate and does not from any commitment on the Central Bank of Iraq.

Note: The prices of the bulletin issued on Sunday will adopted for Monday also due to the weekend in New York .

They sure did sell a lot

A press statement issued by the Information Office of Dr. Iyad Allawi
(Voice of Iraq) - 12-24-2006
This issue was sent to a friend

The name of God the Merciful



A press statement issued by the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, the Iraqi National List, the Secretary-General of the Iraqi National Accord Movement
24 / 12 / 2006

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A telegram from Dr. Iyad Allawi (Prime Iraqi List) to the sons of our people from the Christian community occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) and the Christmas and New Year holidays which reads as follows :

Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in peace and Christmas and New Year holidays to say farewell to 2006 and welcome the new year. On this occasion, I extend to you and to all Iraqis truest sense of hope for all the blessings that Iraq is dominated by years of national unity, peace and prosperity. Years in which stability and security away from sectarianism and to ensure the provincial build a new Iraq. Iraq democracy and freedom and loyalty to the homeland.

Every year, you are fine shape
Dr.
Iyad Allawi
Chairman of the Iraqi National List
June 24 December / 2006


WOW I'm very impressed, for Allawi to acknowledge Jesus Christ, and celebrating His birth.

I'll take a 8 point drop but I really like those double digit drops better.

Originally Posted by day dreamer

They sure did sell a lot

It looks as though they still removed 9,485,000 USD or 12,804,750,000 Dinar from circulation.

I'll await the official confirmation from Socata 850.


V/R

Al

No news on 13 missing from Iraqi Red Crescent kidnapping 1 hour, 1 minute ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi Red Crescent has no news about 13 hostages still missing one week after dozens of staff were kidnapped at gunpoint from one of its Baghdad offices, the head of the agency has said.

"Thirteen people are still missing -- 10 members of staff, two daily workers and one guard from the Dutch embassy. All the others were released," Mazen Abdallah, secretary general of the Iraqi Red Crescent, told AFP Sunday.

"Up to now we have no information. We are continuing to see people and do our best to release our staff."

Twenty-nine of the hostages have been freed in batches following a December 17 raid in which gunmen dressed as police snatched 42 people from a Red Crescent office in the once upscale but now troubled district of Karrada.

More than 30 of those seized were workers at the aid group, the latest victim of a mass kidnapping to strike terror in Baghdad, a city living in fear of death squads and sectarian militias.

The Red Crescent has since suspended most work in the capital and the wider Baghdad governorate, although Abdallah said it was trying to continue to care for some needy people despite the difficulties.

"Many of the staff hestitate to come to work. There is no security where they are living. Everybody says the other staff will be kidnapped the way their friends were kidnapped," Abdallah said.

While the Iraqi interior ministry has informed the Red Crescent it is working to release the hostages, the aid organisation has continued to make its own efforts, Abdallah added.

Until the kidnapping, the Red Crescent was one of the few humanitarian aid groups still working nationwide in war-torn Iraq, with a staff of 1,000 employees and 200,000 volunteers

Originally Posted by day dreamer

A press statement issued by the Information Office of Dr. Iyad Allawi
(Voice of Iraq) - 12-24-2006
This issue was sent to a friend

The name of God the Merciful



A press statement issued by the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, the Iraqi National List, the Secretary-General of the Iraqi National Accord Movement
24 / 12 / 2006

<<<<<<<

A telegram from Dr. Iyad Allawi (Prime Iraqi List) to the sons of our people from the Christian community occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) and the Christmas and New Year holidays which reads as follows :

Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in peace and Christmas and New Year holidays to say farewell to 2006 and welcome the new year. On this occasion, I extend to you and to all Iraqis truest sense of hope for all the blessings that Iraq is dominated by years of national unity, peace and prosperity. Years in which stability and security away from sectarianism and to ensure the provincial build a new Iraq. Iraq democracy and freedom and loyalty to the homeland.

Every year, you are fine shape
Dr.
Iyad Allawi
Chairman of the Iraqi National List
June 24 December / 2006


WOW I'm very impressed, for Allawi to acknowledge Jesus Christ, and celebrating His birth.

Times are achangin'! 2007 is gonna be a glorious year for believers. Many, many great things in-store for us. God is good!

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Congress less than keen on Iraq 'surge'
By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer
December 23, 2006


WASHINGTON — The leader of the Senate Democrats, Harry Reid of Nevada, seemed to open the door Sunday to supporting a temporary increase in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. Two days later, he shut it.

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) returned from two days in Iraq and stated his opposition to a so-called troop surge. "It would create more targets," he said.

As President Bush considers whether to temporarily boost the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, few members of Congress are stepping forward to forcefully promote the idea. So far, the political response has mostly been silence, skepticism or outright opposition.

Bush is considering adding as many as 30,000 troops to the force of about 140,000 already in Iraq, but he has not committed to the idea. He is expected to launch a new Iraq strategy, which he calls a "new way forward," in early January. That would coincide with the Democrats taking majority positions in the House and Senate after a midterm election that was widely interpreted as rejecting the president's conduct of the Iraq war.

Members of Congress have limited reach in shaping day-to-day policy in Iraq. The effect of their votes on spending for the war will play out only in months and years, and the president has demonstrated time and again his readiness to buck the tide of the Democrats' opposition.

But broad political opposition has historically put reins on unpopular military policies. Some members of Congress are asking what mission the troops would be charged with performing and are questioning whether success is likely.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), considered a front-runner for his party's presidential nomination in 2008, has been a leader of a limited group that has pressed for a more aggressive approach in Iraq, including the dispatch of more troops to stem the sectarian violence and insurgent attacks.

Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential candidate who won reelection to the Senate in November as an independent, has strongly favored sending additional troops.

McCain, Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) visited Baghdad last week. Collins said she was "not yet convinced that additional troops" would help bring a lasting peace.

Many Republican leaders have been reluctant to address the question, and Democrats who have spoken about it remain skeptical or oppose a troop increase.

The incoming Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has made no public statements on whether to increase the deployment. He is waiting "to hear from the folks at the Pentagon," said a spokesman, Don Stewart.

On Sunday, Reid said on ABC News' "This Week" that he would go along with a troop surge if it lasted two or three months and was "part of a program to get us out of there … by this time next year."

But two days later, he came out against an increase. In a blog posting at the Huffington Post website, he wrote: "Frankly, I don't believe that more troops is the answer for Iraq…. I do not support an escalation of the conflict."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who is to become House speaker, opposes sending more troops, as does the second-ranking House Democrat, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland.

Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a leading Democratic spokesman on military affairs, said in a telephone interview: "Put me down as skeptical."

The dinar will continue to rise at the expense of the dollar

Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
The Iraqi dinar has risen at the expense of the American dollar in the exchange market today, Sunday, the Iraqi lose 8 dinars compared to the dollar rate of exchange, last Thursday.
He said in a statement today the central demand for the dollar rose in the opening week today, recording 11 million and 635 thousand dollars compared to one million and 250 thousand dollars on Thursday.He pointed out that the purchase orders were distributed between one million and 485 thousand dollars in cash and 10 million and 150 thousand dollars in the form of remittances outside the country, the Bank has full coverage.
He explained that the nine banks participating in the auction made offers for the sale of two million and 150 thousand dollars bought by the bank in full at 1350 dinars to the dollar.

Translated version of http://www.aswataliraq.info/?newlang=ara

PUKmedia / بغداد:Laila al-Shamri / Baghdad :
.The demand for dollar in the opening week, today, Sunday, an auction of the Central Bank of Iraq, recording 11 million and 635 thousand dollars against 250 million dollars last Thursday.

.The breakdown of the purchase orders between one million and 485 thousand dollars in cash and 10 million and 150 thousand dollars in the form of remittances outside the country, the Bank has full coverage at the exchange rate amounted to 1352 dinars low eight points from the last meeting where it was registered in 1360 dinars.

.With banks made of nine participating in the auction, bids for the sale of two million and 150 thousand dollars bought by the bank in full at the exchange rate in 1350 dinars to the dollar.
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