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

Originally Posted by phiberoptik

heres a legit question is it metric tons 1 = 32150 troy oz
or short tons 1 =29166 troy oz

Great question. I have no idea tho. Will try and find out.

Gloribee

Originally Posted by Gloribee

Great question. I have no idea tho. Will try and find out.

Gloribee

aren't all foreign goods including gold mesured in metrics? I by plastic from china and it is metric ton. I am no expert though. It is just what I thought.

Baghdad newspapers, without even next Sunday
Adel Hamid, a luxurious Hamrani
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Gains Iraqi newspapers today, Sunday, suspended for the second day in a row, is scheduled to be filtered newspapers issued in Baghdad until next Sunday because of the Id al-Adha holiday.

He said Hussein al-Ubaydi Chief Editor (sovereignty) Journal News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, Sunday, that its organ Sthtjb suspended until the end of the Eid holiday has decided to re-release will be next Sunday, where next Saturday holiday army, which ratified the 6th of January in January of each year.

Said Abdul Zahra Al-Bayati, deputy chief editor of the newspaper (the new evidence) that the independent daily Al issued Sthtjb suspended until next Sunday because of the Eid holiday due to the suspension of printing and distribution offices.
The morning newspaper of the Iraqi Media Network is the only newspaper to be issued next Saturday.

He said a haven Secretary-Sabah told newspaper editors (Voices of Iraq) to the presidency and the editor of the newspaper informed its correspondents and editors and staff that the paper will be issued next Saturday.

The Mehdi Abbas, deputy chief editor of the newspaper (Al-Manar today) that the independent daily newspaper Sthtjb suspended due to holiday and go chests next Sunday.
The champion of commoners told a newspaper (long) independent daily newspaper to go publication starting next Sunday and the editorial was working in the newspaper that always will be next Saturday.

The flood stage following the fall of the former regime in April 2003 April emergence of dozens of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and satellite channels, the local exploiting a margin of freedom in addition to what he termed "a number of analysts promiscuity and chaos and the weakness of the government and control over those issues.
And in Iraq issued a formal morning newspapers, magazines and Web space and all of the Iraqi Media Network belonging to the Iraqi government, and independent newspapers such as the long, bright, the Constitution.

It also publishes newspapers belonging to parties such as newspapers statement and advocacy committees of the Islamic Da'wah Party, which belongs to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the newspaper Conference spokeswoman for the National Conference of Iraq headed by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, and the newspaper Dar es Salaam, who chairs the board of directors of Dr. Tariq Al-Hashmi, Vice President of the Republic, and the eyes speaking shares of the Association of Muslim Scholars in addition to newspapers Bustaneh European and fraternity Committees of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, head of the Kurdistan Massoud Albrazani.

Between invisibility and newspapers for nine days and the result of the repercussions of the implementation of the death penalty against deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will dawn yesterday, the Iraqis themselves are split between those who consider this the end of an historic era and the beginning of the security and stability, and between seeing the beginning of the acts of violence and the escalation of up to the civil war.

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Gazette down, CBI down and also now all newspapers down!

They can do whatever they want until the 7th.
Let's hope they are preparing a big surprise for everyone!

The dollar exchange rate is stabile for the first time in two months
31/12/2006
Source: Translated by IRAQdirectory.com

The dollar exchange rate stabilized against the Iraqi dinar at the conclusion of the Iraqi Central Bank sessions last Thursday for the past week, recording 1325 dinar, which is the same exchange rate last Wednesday, for the first time in more than two months.

The demand for the dollar recorded a slight fallback, hitting six million and 665 thousand dollars against seven million and 300 thousand dollars last Wednesday.

The purchase orders distributed between five million and 925 thousand dollars in cash and 730 thousand dollars in the form of remittances to abroad; the bank fully covered them at an exchange rate amounted to 1325 dinar.

On their part, the six banks participating in the auction made offers to sell the dollar hit 730 thousand dollars bought by the bank in full at an exchange rate reached 1323 dinar.

The economic and industrial expert, Abdul Razzaq Sadiq Al-Abayachi, described in a statement the stability of the exchange rate as a positive indication that will allow the market to restore its health and mend the damages caused by the daily and frequent drop of the exchange rates which caused transactions to lose credibility.

Al-Abayachi pointed out that the long holiday the auction will have for more than a week because of Eid Al-Adha, will allow much of the smooth circulation, without risks of the decline of the currency, and the settlement of a number of trade deals.

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Iraqi Minister of Planning: The budget does not meet the aspirations of development
31/12/2006
Source: Translated by IRAQdirectory.com

The Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation, Ali Ghalib Baban, said in a press conference that the annual allocations proposed for the 2007 budget amounted to 12 trillion and 565 billion dinar (10 billion dollars).

The proportion of the deficit in the new budget amounted to 10 trillion dinar, but "it is more a theoretical deficit than realistic because the State has some cash reserves in the Development Fund for Iraq", expressing his dissatisfaction with the budget, which "is not up to the ministry's ambitions" at the level of development.

He pointed out that three trillion dinar were allocated for projects of the Ministry of Oil (69.23% of the total allocations) and is aimed at rehabilitating the oil sector and enabling it to increase its capacity to produce and export, while the allocations of the Ministry of Electricity were about one trillion and 745 billion dinar (78.13% of the total) allocated for projects to improve and develop the networks of generating and transmitting electric power in which Iraq suffers from a big shortage.

He revealed the allocation of 430 billion dinar to the Ministry of Health, 425 billion to the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, 422 billion to the Ministry of Construction and Housing, and 336 billion to the Ministry of Education. He also referred to the allocation of 259 billion dinar for rehabilitating existing schools and building new ones (2.05% of the total allocations), while the Regions Development Project received a considerable support reached to two trillion and 602 billion dinar.

Baban said that there were a number of considerations that have imposed themselves in this budget, like the very high expenditures allocated for security and defense, estimated at 10 trillion dinar, and the high costs posed by the ration card insurance, estimated at about three trillion dinar.

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I enquired with my Kurd contact, Mohammed, about the $10K handout and his reply is below.

Many of you will not like the reply and I have decided to post it in the news thread as I have known and worked with Mo for five years, and now him well enough to know that this is not a made up story.

I have posted his exact reply in quotes. His English is not brilliant, but I think you will understand. My comments are beneath his.

"
Dear Colin
The money it is only for people on power,not for others.
it is a copy of previous regime nothing changed for poor people are as always are victims.
you can see ,youngs in the queues to join army just to support thier families ,and they are sure they will get killed but no choice ,has to do something to survive and support the families.
NO the money they not recieved it."

My interpretation of this is that only people in authority are getting the money, and the youngsters still have little choice but to join the army to make enough money to live on.

Hopefully things will soon get better as Mo and his family are still very optimistic about the future, but it is still no picnic over there.

Basra-Advances

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Advances of the unemployed in Basra to set up projects

Mostafa Kadhim

Basra - (Voices of Iraq)

Said Karima Hassan, member of the Basra governorate said that during the coming days, advances granted for the unemployed and divorced women and widows in the province.
The News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, Sunday, that amount of the advances ranging from three million to 15 million dinars grant for the unemployed, widows and divorcees to set up projects to overcome the difficult circumstances they are experiencing.
She stated that the maintenance would instruct the relevant departments to begin distribution in the coming days.
It did not state the conditions for the granting of advances or specific date for granted and the time period during which he would pay the amount.
She noted that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, which had been approved at the beginning of the month of December 1-2 December to grant the unemployed and the widows and divorcees advance funding for the establishment of investment projects.
It is noteworthy that the number of registered unemployed in the work of the Council of preserving the 6000 addition to the unemployed in 2000 promoted the treatment of widows and divorcees.
Located at a distance of Basra province 550 km south of Baghdad.

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Cheers!
DayDream

Originally Posted by investor

I enquired with my Kurd contact, Mohammed, about the $10K handout and his reply is below.

Many of you will not like the reply and I have decided to post it in the news thread as I have known and worked with Mo for five years, and now him well enough to know that this is not a made up story.

I have posted his exact reply in quotes. His English is not brilliant, but I think you will understand. My comments are beneath his.

"
Dear Colin
The money it is only for people on power,not for others.
it is a copy of previous regime nothing changed for poor people are as always are victims.
you can see ,youngs in the queues to join army just to support thier families ,and they are sure they will get killed but no choice ,has to do something to survive and support the families.
NO the money they not recieved it."

My interpretation of this is that only people in authority are getting the money, and the youngsters still have little choice but to join the army to make enough money to live on.

Hopefully things will soon get better as Mo and his family are still very optimistic about the future, but it is still no picnic over there.

If the $10 gift is for people in power who are probably on a high salary anyway, my thoughts are that this gift of 10 dollars is more of an insult to them than the poor people, unless of course it is being revalued. This being said, the total amount of 10 dollar gifts issued would be far less than issuing it to the whole population.

Would anyone know whether the $10 has been issued to the population in previous years.

Baghdad newspapers, without even next Sunday

(Voice of Iraq) - 12-31-2006
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Baghdad newspapers, without even next Sunday
Adel Hamid, a luxurious Hamrani
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Gains Iraqi newspapers today, Sunday, suspended for the second day in a row, is scheduled to be filtered newspapers issued in Baghdad until next Sunday because of the Id al-Adha holiday.

He said Hussein al-Ubaydi Chief Editor (sovereignty) Journal News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, Sunday, that its organ Sthtjb suspended until the end of the Eid holiday has decided to re-release will be next Sunday, where next Saturday holiday army, which ratified the 6th of January in January of each year.

Said Abdul Zahra Al-Bayati, deputy chief editor of the newspaper (the new evidence) that the independent daily Al issued Sthtjb suspended until next Sunday because of the Eid holiday due to the suspension of printing and distribution offices.

The morning newspaper of the Iraqi Media Network is the only newspaper to be issued next Saturday.

He said a haven Secretary-Sabah told newspaper editors (Voices of Iraq) to the presidency and the editor of the newspaper informed its correspondents and editors and staff that the paper will be issued next Saturday.

The Mehdi Abbas, deputy chief editor of the newspaper (Al-Manar today) that the independent daily newspaper Sthtjb suspended due to holiday and go chests next Sunday.

The champion of commoners told a newspaper (long) independent daily newspaper to go publication starting next Sunday and the editorial was working in the newspaper that always will be next Saturday.

The flood stage following the fall of the former regime in April 2003 April emergence of dozens of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and satellite channels, the local exploiting a margin of freedom in addition to what he termed "a number of analysts promiscuity and chaos and the weakness of the government and control over those issues.

And in Iraq issued a formal morning newspapers, magazines and Web space and all of the Iraqi Media Network belonging to the Iraqi government, and independent newspapers such as the long, bright, the Constitution.
It also publishes newspapers belonging to parties such as newspapers statement and advocacy committees of the Islamic Da'wah Party, which belongs to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the newspaper Conference spokeswoman for the National Conference of Iraq headed by Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, and the newspaper Dar es Salaam, who chairs the board of directors of Dr. Tariq Al-Hashmi, Vice President of the Republic, and the eyes speaking shares of the Association of Muslim Scholars in addition to newspapers Bustaneh European and fraternity Committees of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, head of the Kurdistan Massoud Albrazani.

Between invisibility and newspapers for nine days and the result of the repercussions of the implementation of the death penalty against deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will dawn yesterday, the Iraqis themselves are split between those who consider this the end of an historic era and the beginning of the security and stability, and between seeing the beginning of the acts of violence and the escalation of up to the civil war.
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Iraqi, Dutch officials discuss Iraqi investment

Thursday, December 28th 2006
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Iraqi Ambassador to Holland Siamend Abdulsamad Bana'a recently held a seminar on Iraq at Holland's Council Headquarters for Trade Development in The Hague. The seminar - New Developments in Iraq - highlighted investment opportunities in Iraq and Iraq's new investment rules.
Following a speech from the Ambassador, guests heard from the Head of the Dutch-Iraqi Center for Trade Development, Head of Foreign Economy Relations Section in Dutch Ministry for Economic Affairs and the representative of Dutch Shell Company.

"Discussions concentrated on the existence of wide prospects in the field of cooperation with Iraq at the present and for the future and the investment in the light of new rules that protect the investor," according to Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At the end of the seminar, "the Dutch Economic Ministry decided to allocate an amount for supporting and activating economic cooperation with Iraq and investment in it."