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

now this needs a big damn

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!

sorry neno just HAD to do it lol

Make sure you look DOWN when you say cya a hole. GOD BLESS THE IRAQI PEOPLE!

Seems everybody in Iraq is happy as a pig in new shiite , sellibratary gun fire , hopefully they'll be shooting it up soon AGAIN after the rv. Invo via cnn live.

article:
Making a Martyr Out of Saddam
If the deposed Iraqi leader is executed now, the country's
Sunnis will always think of Saddam's rule as a golden era

TIME.com: Making a Martyr Out of Saddam -- Page 1

The GOI needs to move quickly to make them forget about that perceived "Golden Era" by ushering in
the real one. The execution had to happen before a reverting back to the real value of the dinar --whether
all at once or ramping up-- as a Benchmark & sign of a brand new beginning, a fresh start of a new era.
The Sunni's concept of what a Golden Era is needs to be quickly and decisively transformed. Thanks. JMO

ND

Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:57pm ET136

By Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (10:00 p.m. EST) on Saturday, U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra and Arabic satellite channel Arabiya said.

Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi also said the execution had taken place.

"I believe so, yes. He has been executed. It has been officially announced that he has been executed," Abbawi said, speaking by telephone to BBC News 24.

The former Iraqi president ousted in April 2003 by a U.S.-led invasion was convicted in November of crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982.

An appeals court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday and the government rushed through the procedures to hang him by the end of the year and before the Eid al-Adha holiday that starts on Saturday, coinciding with the haj pilgrimage to Mecca.

Earlier, senior officials told Reuters they were expecting to see the former president hang between 5:30 and 6 a.m. (0230 and 0300 GMT).

U.S. television showed scenes of cheering and flag-waving Iraqi-Americans in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest U.S. Arab-American community.

Arabic satellite channel Arabiya said Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former judge Awad al-Bander were also executed by hanging on Saturday.

The Iraqi government had kept details of its plans shrouded in secrecy amid concerns it could spark a violent backlash from his former supporters with Iraq on the brink of civil war.

The execution will delight Iraq's majority Shi'ites, who faced oppression during Saddam's three-decade rule, but may anger some in his resentful Sunni minority.

Some Kurdish leaders had sought a delay so they too could see justice for the man they accuse of genocide against them.


Saddam's conviction on November 5 was hailed by President Bush as a triumph for the democracy he promised to foster in Iraq after the invasion almost four years ago.

With U.S. public support for the war slumping as the number of American dead approaches 3,000, Washington is likely to welcome the death of Saddam, despite misgivings among many allies about capital punishment.

But the hanging could complicate efforts by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to heal Iraq's sectarian divisions with violence spiralling out of control and threatening to pitch the country into full-scale civil war.

Once the belligerent strongman of the Middle East, Saddam's power crumbled when U.S. tanks swept into Baghdad in April 2003. He fled and was captured in December that year by U.S. soldiers who found him hiding in a hole near his home town of Tikrit.

During his three decades in power, Saddam was accused of widespread oppression of political opponents and genocide against Kurds in northern Iraq. His execution means he will never face justice on those charges.

Defiant to the end, Saddam insisted during his trial that he was still the president of Iraq.

He said in a letter written after his conviction in November that he offered himself as a "sacrifice".

"If my soul goes down this path (of martyrdom) it will face God in serenity," he wrote in the letter.

Defense lawyer Issam Jhazzawi earlier told Reuters Saddam's exiled daughters in Jordan were bracing for his imminent death.

"The family are praying for him every minute and are calling on God that He let his soul rest in peace among the martyrs," he said.

His daughter Raghd, who is exiled in Jordan, "is asking that his body be buried in Yemen temporarily until Iraq is liberated and it can be reburied in Iraq," a source close to the family said by telephone before the execution.

(Additional reporting by Alastair Macdonald, Ibon Villelabeitia, Claudia Parsons in Baghdad and Suleiman Khalidi in Dubai)

Photo Slideshow | Reuters.com

Interesting report, in particular Pg# 12

The following reports to Congress are submitted pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H.R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Public Law 109-13.

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs...t-20061216.pdf

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Originally Posted by PlatanoKing

Interesting report, in particular Pg# 12

The following reports to Congress are submitted pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H.R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Public Law 109-13.

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs...t-20061216.pdf

link says page not found

Originally Posted by DanielJay

Ret;

Beat what drum? I never said it couldnt happen, and I never said it could as well. My post was a question, not a statement. I have no idea what will happen either.

My question was "How can they just move the decimal over because they feel like it"?

I can think of a couple different reasons why they cannot do this, maybe I am wrong but this is why i think they cant

#1. Their markets are not open. OPENING DAY IS AFTER THE HOLIDAY
#2. Currency is not freely tradable.THATS WHAT THEY DO WHEN THEY REVALUE
#3. American dollars are still the currency of choice.NOT WHEN THE DINAR WILL BE WORTH MORE
#4. Their economy is the size of one american state.FLOATING ON THE MOST OIL AND GAS IN THE WORLD
#5. Certain laws are either not passed, or not enacted ARTICLE SAID ALL HAD BEEN PASSED AND WOULD BE PRESENTED AND BEGIN 2007. LOOK AT YA CALENDAR.

I am truly sorry if I offended you, wasnt trying to be a bad person, I was just trying to play the part of devil's advocate. I see alot of good news being put across, but not everything good is a signal for a revaluation. Hopes are way too high, higher even than I have seen in my 2 years in this investment. I just think people need to calm down a little and let the dinar run its course.

Now, with that said, and I know the corrections of my statements are coming, please show me how the "can" pull off a drastic decimal move or reval "on the 8th of january 2007" as stated.

DanielJay

WHEN YOUVE WATCHED THE IRAQI NEWS FOR 2.5 YEARS ITS HARD NOT TO GET EXCITED FOR THESE PEOPLE, LET US ENJOY THEIR GOOD NEWS.
man, wanna tell me how to enjoy my life youre in the wrong forum.

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

link says page not found

Here is the site:

Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq - Quarterly Reports - U.S. Department of Defense Official Website - 10/31/2005 - Edition 6

Is under QUARTERLY REPORTS; November 2006 (PDF)