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

Originally Posted by neno

On my way home from work the NPR and BBC was reporting that Bush and PM Maliki had conference calls today. Bush Condonence that He made the right choices in the Quik Hanking of Sadamm. But he did say that he also is doing the right think in the Investigation of the Videos. Now unless he resigned after this, is another Story. But I do not beliece that, not after those News stories. Sorry. Then again who am I.

The White House said that President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki agreed on Thursday to investigate the unauthorized recording of the execution of Saddam Hussein is "the right thing to be done."
.The Iraqi government had been criticized for filming video clips showing mobile telephone officials deride Shiites from Saddam is on death row.

."He said White House spokesman Tony Snow that at the time demonstrated by some Saddam supporters protesting against the execution of the former Iraqi president, the U.S. and Iraqi officials reported "that there was no increase in acts of violence as a result of the penalty."

."Snow said that in the video phone service insured lasted one hour and 45 minutes, "Bush expressed the view that the right thing to be done is to investigate the recording clips and behavior that occurred in the execution of Saddam Hussein."

.President Bush which is developing a new strategy on Iraq, which had been disclosed in the next week with Maliki on "the way forward", and not on his plan.

.Another option discussed by Bush to increase troops in Iraq on a temporary basis but did not say what Sanu if it has been discussed in the conversation with Al-Maliki.

."He said Snow told reporters "they were talking about the importance of having sufficient forces inside Baghdad in order to create a stable situation in the city."

."He said, "exchange President and the Prime Minister of ideas, but I will not go into details at this stage."

وق.Snow said that Bush was "very close" to finalize the plan for Iraq. He added, "there is still choosing from among the options. He has a very clear idea of where he wants to reach the goal.

Yep, they met today, no mention of resignation

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The company announced the systems one of the institutions of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals of Iraq, expressed its readiness to implement all projects and actions required by the industrial giant engineering and technical institutions and construction in the country. The director of the company in a statement : that the focus of our work in order to achieve a qualitative leap in the Iraqi industry and access to advanced global levels keep pace with the times by Iraqi cadre has academic knowledge and practical experience in various fields of advanced technology Kalhaspat and control and communications systems.
.The Director explained that the company is implementing a large number of projects throughout the country in different fields and sectors such as electricity, oil and gas, communications, as well as the rehabilitation of labs such as cement plants, fertilizers, adding that the company meets its obligations by contracting through various parts of the processing systems through purchased from the local market or through agreements with foreign companies.
».The official Iraqi «the field of the company covering various parts of the manufacturing processes and assembly, and integration of systems and design engineering, fraud, delivery systems in various fields of industrial, in addition to information technology, communications and electronics, according to corporate strategies's global company, cadres of advanced scientific workforce in the company, as well as close ties with senior researchers from universities, scientific institutions and other technical, and the involvement of beneficiary institutions in the task forces and special meetings stages of implementation».

( RTU ) التي.He disclosed ownership of the company's human capacity and the hardware and software necessary to implement the various work in the fields of modern industrial, such as the provision of advisory services and installed systems to control large industrial and limited use of the controlling logical programmer (PLC) systems, distributed control (DCS) systems, supervisory control and data collection (SCADA) and terminal units (RTU) which is the basis of the composition control centers of the buildings, information technology and communications.

.The Director said that the company also has hardware and software system of electronic communications processors include industrial capacity and the continuing trend Masukat / alternators, transformers and power processors are the intersection (UPS), in addition to the carrier field basis, which includes all the hardware and software and information technology services.

وعن .And on the last of the contracts hammered out with the public and private sectors in this area, said that the company has established a set of contracts with companies governmental organizations in the country including a contract for the design and implementation of system controlling the crude oil humid in the Oilfield Pope of Karkar Section of the North Oil Company in the city of Kirkuk, and a contract for the design and implementation of system controlling the temperatures for the same company, and a contract for the design and implementation of system controlling the station the separation of gas the central at Rumaylah affiliated to the South Oil Company in Basra Governorate, and held for the development of pace of production in the Sinjar cement factory and the design and implementation of system controlling FOR TWO production in the cement plant the south, and the design and implementation of the United control in the General Company for Cement in Al-Qa'im city, and memorial and Works Agency Ballistic the balances of mastered to the General Company for Cement in the towns of Kubaisa and nationalization.

.The Director of the company out that the cadres scientific development in his company able from the implementation of the activities of exceptional the design of system controlling supervisory and data collection relating to the Status of the national control on the production and transfer of electric energy in the Iraq, which contains about (30.000) points, explaining that the collection of these data is through the terminals Remote Terminal Units Ruts kind of ASEA, as able cadres also from memorial control station sensing for the Ballistic Al (SCADA) with which it could the use of any means of communication available for linking of hardware and used to control all data points through the United interaction with the user-dependent fees, in order to control the the speed of response commensurate with the type and means of communication.

( SCADA، PLC and DCS ).Observers considered specialists in the field of technology Systems Company of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals of Iraq, the first company in the field of advanced technology to Iraq through its work in providing counseling and the completion and operation of systems installed and integrated in the fields of modern industrial use of the systems (SCADA, PLC and DCS).

الى».So, a number of graduate students in the Laser Institute of Higher Studies of the machine for the manufacture of three-dimensional laser with a digital control programmers CNC laser machine «» potential purely subjective produced by the creators Iraqis. He said Dr. Hussein Ali Jawad Dean of the Institute told the Middle East «» «that this machine is one of the important and essential in all industrial facilities», stressing that the Teachers Institute sponsored the delivery and executed by students in the master scientific research ».

.He explained that the Dean machine is completing manufacturing operations (cutting, welding, drilling, punching) and other operations efficiently and accurately and to shorten the high cost and time, he said, pointing out that control of this machine had been carried out by a computer are nutrition information for the completion of the process to be implemented without human intervention.

عا .He called Dr. Jawad companies all the public and private sectors to visit the Institute and access to the work of this machine for the processing of those who, due to their accuracy in the work and shortened the time.
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Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

its called reducing the money supply by pulling dinar out of circulation.

SGS,

I was under the assumption that the USA alone had 4T, investors 2T and that was a few months ago... Do you think that this is old info?

Hunter

Originally Posted by neno

Vietnam has no resources. None at All. And that cuase it to take them 12 years. Now Iraq. Everyone wants apiece of Iraq. Everyone is just waiting. Sorry Webster, but that is a FACT.

Don't forget that Iraq has also been sponsored the the U.S.

This article is not new as i read it over a year ago ...it does say what maybe happening and it seems that iraq maybe on a fast track. The author this article is not pleased with this happening and it maybe tainted with her opinion. It is a very good read thoug for those who have not done so

Accession through the backdoor: how the US is pushing Iraq into the WTO
Archives - WTO info: Accession through the backdoor: how the US is pushing Iraq into the WTO (28/1/2006)

By Carol Giacomo and Steve Holland
2 hours, 35 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is planning to name a new ambassador and will likely pick new military commanders for Iraq as he prepares a new strategy for a worsening war that has mired his administration.

The changes are part of a major realignment of administration personnel as Bush seeks to adjust his approach to Iraq, where nearly four years of a large U.S. military presence has failed to bring stability and an end to violence.

The current U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, is expected to replace Zalmay Khalilzad in Baghdad as U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Khalilzad is expected to be nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, three senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.

ABC News said Bush was expected to nominate Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific, to replace Gen. John Abizaid as the head of U.S. Central Command, which is in charge of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus was expected to become the top ground commander in Iraq, replacing Gen. George Casey, ABC said, citing unnamed officials.

But there is little expectation that changing faces will mean a radical shift in policy called for by some opposition Democrats, who took control of the U.S. Congress on Thursday after an election dominated by the Iraq debate.

Bush is giving top consideration to a short-term increase in U.S. troops to Baghdad but refused to say on Thursday if it would be in the plan he will announce next week. He has shown little inclination to set a timetable to withdraw the 132,000 American service-members now in Iraq.

"I'm in the process of making up my final decision as to what to recommend, what recommendations to accept," Bush said at the White House after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "One thing is for certain, I will want to make sure that the mission is clear and specific and can be accomplished."

VIRTUALLY COMPLETE CHANGE

Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who on Thursday became first woman speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said November elections that brought her party to power in the U.S. Congress meant Americans wanted a change of direction.

"It is the responsibility of the president to articulate a new plan for Iraq that makes it clear to the Iraqis that they must defend their own streets and their own security, a plan that promotes stability in the region and a plan that allows us to responsibly redeploy our troops," she said in her inaugural speech.

Replacing Abizaid and Casey and giving Khalilzad a new job would wrap up a virtually complete change of top U.S. officials responsible for the prosecuting the war and dealing directly with the American-backed Iraqi government in Baghdad.

These expected changes follow the departure of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was replaced with former CIA chief Robert Gates.

Khalilzad, who had also served as ambassador to Afghanistan during Bush's first term, would replace John Bolton, who left the U.N. post last week.

Michael Rubin, an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority that administered Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003, said replacing Khalilzad was a positive move that "creates opportunities which we can either seize or squander."

Khalilzad is a careful diplomat but his efforts to draw Sunni Muslims into the Iraqi political process have not been successful and his status as an American Sunni Muslim gave some Iraqi Shi'ites an excuse to accuse him -- erroneously -- of pro-Sunni partisanship, said Rubin of the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, said Petraeus is an experienced Iraq hand.

The Pentagon declined to comment on the ABC report. (Additional reporting by Will Dunham)

Guards in Saddam video named; Bush supports probe By Ibon Villelabeitia
1 hour, 34 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Investigators have identified two guards who illicitly filmed Saddam Hussein's execution, an official said on Thursday, as the Iraqi government sought to dampen growing outrage from Sunni Arabs over the unruly hanging.

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The mobile phone video of Shi'ite officials taunting Saddam on the gallows has inflamed sectarian passions in a country on the brink of civil war.

"Two Justice Ministry guards have been arrested. Other guards have identified them as having filmed the hanging," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's aide Sami al-Askari told Reuters.

President Bush said that Saddam's execution should have been carried out in a "more dignified way."

"We expect there to be a full investigation of what took place," Bush said at a White House news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in his first public comments on the matter.

"I wish, obviously, that the proceedings had been -- gone in a more dignified way. But nevertheless, he was given justice," Bush said. "The thousands of people he killed were not."

Bush also promised to unveil his new Iraq strategy next week. One option under consideration is a temporary increase in troops, though on Thursday he would not tip his hand about the upcoming changes.

"I'm in the process of making up my final decision as to what to recommend, what recommendations to accept," he said. "One thing is for certain, I will want to make sure that the mission is clear and specific and can be accomplished."

Michigan Democrat Senator Carl Levin, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Bush was likely to link any short-term increase in U.S. troop levels to certain conditions.

Levin said he believed Bush would "at a minimum" reverse the open-ended nature of the U.S. troop commitment in Iraq.

Bush is planning to name a new ambassador to Iraq and will likely pick new military commanders there, moves that would wrap up a virtually complete change of top U.S. officials responsible for the prosecuting the war. This follows the departure of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was replaced with former CIA chief Robert Gates.

NO RADICAL SHIFT

But there is little expectation that changing faces will mean a radical shift in policy called for by some opposition Democrats, who took control of the U.S. Congress on Thursday after an election dominated by the Iraq debate.

As U.S. military casualties in Iraq climbed above 3,000, an American soldier was killed in western Baghdad on Thursday after his patrol came under attack from small arms fire, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Two bombs exploded earlier near a petrol station in Baghdad's western Mansour district, killing at least 13 people and wounding 22, police said.

A prosecutor who attended Saddam's execution told Reuters he had seen two senior officials filming the hanging, prompting suggestions among some Iraqis that the guards might be used as scapegoats.

Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told a news conference: "The investigation is ongoing and we have identified those who flouted the rules ... Even for a dictator like Saddam, the law must be obeyed."

The images, which show observers yelling "Go to hell" and chanting the name of a radical Shi'ite cleric before Saddam falls through the trap, have sparked angry demonstrations by Saddam's fellow Sunnis, fearful of Shi'ite ascendancy. Moderate Sunnis say it deals a blow to Maliki's call for reconciliation.

In Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's restive western province of Anbar, U.S. commanders met tribal chief Sheikh Sattar al-Buzayi, the U.S. military said in a statement Thursday.

They discussed action being taken by Iraqi security troops with the help of U.S.-led forces in the region, the statement said but gave no further details. U.S. forces conducted a string of raids in Ramadi Wednesday and detained 23 suspects with ties to senior Al Qaeda leaders.

Buzayi is head of the Anbar Salvation Council, an umbrella group of tribes in Anbar frustrated with al Qaeda's growing influence in the province.

Barzan al-Tikriti, one of Saddam's half-brothers and his former intelligence chief, and Awad al-Bander, a former judge, were found guilty with Saddam two months ago over the killings of 148 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. Bander presided over the court that ordered the men's deaths.

Officials have said they will take more precautions for the executions of Barzan and Bander, including checking witnesses for cameras and mobile phones.

(Additional reporting by Mussab Al-Khairalla in Baghdad)

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Moussa stresses importance of Iraqi reconciliation plan

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Moussa stresses importance of Iraqi reconciliation plan

CAIRO, Jan 4 (KUNA) -- The Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa Thursday said that it was important to back up the national reconciliation plan in Iraq and added that the League would work on holding an Iraqi national accord conference in Baghdad.

In a statement to the press, the official spokesman of the League Alaa Rushdi stated that Moussa's remarks came during his meeting with President of Slovenia Janez Drnovsek and Prime Minister Janez Jansa.

Rushdi added that during an annual conference in Slovenia the Arab official said that the Middle East faced many problems such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the situation in Iraq, the Darfur crisis, the Iranian nuclear file, and other problems that acquire regional and international attention.

Moussa revealed to the conference attendees the Arab efforts for pushing forward the Mideast peace process, said the spokesman who indicated it was time for the international community and the European Union (EU) to support the efforts made for ending the Israeli-Arab conflict for the sake of peace.

Rushdi also revealed that the Arab Chief showcased to the Slovenia officials the League's efforts for finding a solution for the Lebanese political tension.

On Darfur, Moussa said that the situation there would improve, thanks to the agreement between the United Nations (UN) and Sudanese government regarding the deployment of peacekeeping forces in the troubled region.

Meanwhile, the Arab top official said that the League and the African Union (AU) called for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia which came in light of the international failure to stop violence in the African horn. (end) az.

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Iraq identifies two guards in Saddam video
(Reuters)

5 January 2007



BAGHDAD - Investigators have identified two guards who illicitly filmed Saddam Hussein’s execution, an official said on Thursday, as the Iraqi government sought to dampen growing outrage from Sunni Arabs over the unruly hanging.


The mobile phone video of Shia officials taunting Saddam on the gallows has inflamed sectarian passions in a country on the brink of civil war.

‘Two Justice Ministry guards have been arrested. Other guards have identified them as having filmed the hanging,’ Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s aide Sami Al Askari told Reuters.

US President George W. Bush spoke to Maliki in a secure videoconference call on Thursday and agreed that investigating the recording of the execution was the right thing to do, White House spokesman Tony Snow said.

Bush, who is developing a new strategy on Iraq that could be unveiled as early as next week, spoke to Maliki about the ‘way forward’ but not about his specific plan.

One option Bush is considering is a temporary increase in troops, but Snow would not say whether that was discussed in the conversation with Maliki.

‘They were talking about the importance of having sufficient force within Baghdad to create a stable situation within the city,’ Snow told reporters.

Michigan Democrat Senator Carl Levin said Bush was likely to link any short-term increase in US troop levels to certain conditions.

Levin, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he believed Bush would ‘at a minimum’ reverse the open-ended nature of the US troop commitment in Iraq.

A short-term troop increase is one of the policy changes under consideration which has won most attention in Washington, as US military casualties in Iraq have climbed above 3,000.

An American soldier was killed in western Baghdad on Thursday after his patrol came under attack from small arms fire, the US military said in a statement.

Two bombs exploded earlier near a petrol station in Baghdad’s western Mansour district, killing at least 13 people and wounding 22, police said.

Angry demonstrations
A prosecutor who attended Saddam’s execution told Reuters he had seen two senior officials filming the hanging, prompting suggestions among some Iraqis that the guards might be used as scapegoats.

Interior Minister Jawad Al Bolani told a news conference: ‘The investigation is ongoing and we have identified those who flouted the rules ... Even for a dictator like Saddam, the law must be obeyed.’

The images, which show observers yelling ‘Go to hell’ and chanting the name of a radical Shia cleric before Saddam falls through the trap, have sparked angry demonstrations by Saddam’s fellow Sunnis, fearful of Shia ascendancy. Moderate Sunnis say it deals a blow to Maliki’s call for reconciliation.

In Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s restive western province of Anbar, US commanders met tribal chief Sheikh Sattar Al Buzayi, the US military said in a statement on Thursday.

They discussed action being taken by Iraqi security troops with the help of U.S.-led forces in the region, the statement said but gave no further details. US forces conducted a string of raids in Ramadi on Wednesday and detained 23 suspects with ties to senior Al Qaeda leaders.

Buzayi is head of the Anbar Salvation Council, an umbrella group of tribes in Anbar frustrated with Al Qaeda’s growing influence in the province.

Barzan Al Tikriti, one of Saddam’s half-brothers and his former intelligence chief, and Awad Al Bander, a former judge, were found guilty with Saddam two months ago over the killings of 148 Shia men from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. Bander presided over the court that ordered the men’s deaths.

Officials have said they will take more precautions for the executions of Barzan and Bander, including checking witnesses for cameras and mobile phones.

Thousands of Sunni Arabs have marched in the Sunni heartland to vent anger at Saddam’s execution, and mourners have flocked to Saddam’s grave in his home village of Awja.

On Thursday, hundreds of Shia s marched in the southern city of Basra to support the execution in a demonstration organised by the local office of Maliki’s Dawa party.

Originally Posted by H2O_Lover

This article is not new as i read it over a year ago ...it does say what maybe happening and it seems that iraq maybe on a fast track. The author this article is not pleased with this happening and it maybe tainted with her opinion. It is a very good read thoug for those who have not done so

Accession through the backdoor: how the US is pushing Iraq into the WTO
Archives - WTO info: Accession through the backdoor: how the US is pushing Iraq into the WTO (28/1/2006)

Thank you for this article H2O_Lover. I had no idea that you really can't trust anyone anymore. What a crooked bunch. A real eye opener. Thanks again. When I suggested that Iraq had to wait sometime to be admitted to the WTO I presumed that every step was taken in a legitimate manner. How stupid of me! Thank you again.