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

The Iraqi proposals

Published: 06 January 2007

Iraq government calls for regional security conference, including Iraq's neighbours, to produce an agreement/treaty on non-intervention and combating terrorism. Signatory states will be responsible to a set of markers for commitments.

Purpose: To reduce/ eliminate neighbouring countries' support for insurgents, terrorists and militias.

* Iraq government calls for preparatory conference on a Middle-Eastern Confederation of States that will examine proposals on economic, trade and investment union. Proposals will be presented for a convention on civil, human and minority rights in the Near East, with a supreme court/tribunal with enforcement powers.

Purpose: To increase regional economic integration and provide minorities in signatory countries with supra-national protection.

* Iraq government calls for an international conference on Iraq that would include Iraq, its regional neighbours, Egypt, the UAE, the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China that would aim to produce a treaty guaranteeing: a. Iraq's frontiers b. The broad principles of Iraq's constitutional arrangements

c. Establishing an international force to replace the multinational force over 12 to 18 months. Appointing an international co-ordinator to oversee treaty implementation.

Purpose: To arrange for the gradual and orderly withdrawal of American troops, ensure that Iraq develops along constitutional lines and to confirm Iraq and its neighbours' common frontiers.

* Iraq government will introduce changes to government by creating two statutory bodies with autonomous financing and independent boards: a. A reconstruction and development council run by Iraqi professionals and technocrats with World Bank/UN support b. A security council which will oversee professional ministries of defence, interior, intelligence and national security.

Purpose: To remove the reconstruction and development programme from incompetent hands and transfer them to an apolitical, professional and independent body. Also to remove the oversight, and command and control of security ministries from politicised party control to independent, professional and accountable body.

* The entire peace plan, its preamble and its details must be put before Iraqi parliament for its approval.

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DayDream

Originally Posted by Gloribee

A friend set this, I dont believe I've I seen it yet, but if nothing else may answer a couple of our sites questions.




With Oil prices going up once again to the $58.00 per barrel, there is no doubt that Iraq will benefit, and this will reflect directly in the exchange rate.

If you are interested in numbers, here is the quantity of banknotes in circulation in Iraq. This is looking from a collectors point of view and by studying the Prefixes and Serial number of the new banknotes.

25,000 Dinar 211 million pieces
10,000 Dinar 230 million pieces
5,000 Dinar 400 million pieces
1,000 Dinar 300 million pieces
500 Dinar 40 million pieces
250 Dinar 520 million pieces
50 Dinar 100 million pieces


This gives a grand total of 10,030,000,000,000 or amere 10 Trillion Dinars, which; when divided by the exchange rate of 1450, makes seven billion US$. I leave it to the economists to decide if this is in line with Iraq’s neighboring countries!

Seems like an older release, but I can not recollect if I've read any thing that says even furter issues were made since then. Thoughts?

Gloribee

This was originally posted at that other forum in April of 2005

The amount posted is not the amount in circulation but the amount printed. There is a difference, they are not going to have all that they printed in circulation. They have to keep a certain % in reserves.

Originally Posted by MrsCK

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I agree MrsCK Canada kicking Russian butt is a good thing and is worthy of a Jig. This is what Im talking about !! Asked my brother to try and get some real concrete Info. Says he will try, as he is an investor such as us. Not being allowed out side the wire is kind of hard, but some of the locals he is friendly with, so he will ask and see what happens.

Gloribee

Baghdad initiative to go door to door By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers
Fri Jan 5, 4:34 PM ET


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops will begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assault on militants in the capital this weekend as a first step in the new White House strategy to contain Sunni insurgents and Shiite death squads, key advisers to the prime minister said Friday.


The first details of the plan — a fresh bid to pacify the capital — emerged a day after President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke for nearly two hours by video conference. Both leaders were expected to detail their vision of a new strategy in the coming days.

The al-Maliki aides would not address the scope of the planned assaults nor where specifically they were planned.

The Iraqis did, however, signal continuing disagreement on key issues, including al-Maliki's unease over the introduction of more U.S. troops.

Another point of contention has been the Iraqi leader's repeated refusal of U.S. demands to crush the militia of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, one of the prime minister's most powerful backers.

Any serious drive to curb the extreme chaos and violence in the capital would put not only American forces but al-Maliki's Iraqi army in direct confrontation with al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

The militants are gaining more and more ground as they kill Sunni residents of the city and drive others from their neighborhoods. The explosion of vengeance began after the Feb. 22 bombing by al-Qaida in Iraq militants of an important Shiite shrine, the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra north of the capital.

Sami al-Askari, an al-Maliki political adviser, told The Associated Press on Friday that al-Maliki had not acquiesced to the reported White House plan to send as many as 9,000 more U.S. troops to Baghdad alone.

"President Bush told the prime minister he was ready to send additional troops, but al-Maliki said he would have to talk that over with his senior military officers to see if they were needed," al-Askari said.

Bush reportedly wants to increase troop strength as part of his developing plan to shake-up the U.S. military effort in Iraq, now in its fourth year.

Without a substantial U.S. troop increase there were questions about the success of any new drive to curb violence.

Last summer the U.S. military and Iraqi army flooded the capital with 12,000 additional troops for the same purpose. By October, the U.S. military spokesman said the operation had not met expectations and the situation was disheartening. The last half of 2006 was one of the most violent periods in the center and west of the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

In his discussions with Bush, al-Maliki continued to press for a rapid U.S. withdrawal from the capital to bases "on the outskirts of Baghdad," al-Askari said. The prime minister has claimed his forces will be ready to assume control of security for the whole country by summer. The Americans, perhaps optimistically, hope that can happen by year's end.

Al-Askari and Hassan al-Suneid, another top al-Maliki aide and lawmaker from his Dawa Party, said the fresh security push would be open-ended once initiated this weekend.

"The Iraqi Interior, Defense and National Security ministries will take part using information we have gathered from a new intelligence network," al-Suneid said. "There will be no time limit, and there will be many stages to the operation."

Al-Suneid said American forces would take part in a supporting role.

As forces apparently began to get ready, the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars voiced Sunni agitation and claimed the coming drive was really a joint operation by Interior Ministry commandos, the Iraqi army and the Mahdi Army to further cleanse mixed neighborhoods. Iraq's security forces are dominated by Shiites.

Sheik Mohammed Bashar al-Fayadh, a spokesman for the organization, claimed residents had seen 150 vehicles massing Friday in the Shula region in northwest Baghdad in advance of the assault.

"We fear a huge attack," al-Fayadh said on Al-Jazeera satellite television.

Throughout Iraq on Friday, at least 31 people died violently or were found dead, including two beheaded victims of the sectarian slaughter found floating in the Tigris river.

The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years.

"All of us at AP share the pain and grief being felt by Ahmed's family and friends," said AP President and CEO Tom Curley.

The circumstances of Naji's death were unclear. Dozens of Iraqis are found slain almost every day in Baghdad, many believed to be victims of sectarian death squads.

An American contractor was abducted Friday along with his driver and translator, and the two Iraqis were later found dead near a stadium in the southern city of Basra, police said. The fate of the American was unknown.

"The two victims were the translator and a driver," said a Basra police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Basra's police chief, Gen. Mohammed Humadi, confirmed that a U.S. citizen had been kidnapped and said he was an American of Iraqi origin. The contractor's name and the company for which he worked were not disclosed.

French President Jacques Chirac, meanwhile, said the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq destabilized the entire Middle East and caused terrorism to spread, adding that the problems in Iraq justified France's strong opposition to the war.

"As France foresaw and feared, the war in Iraq caused upheavals whose effects have not yet finished unraveling," Chirac said in a speech to French ambassadors.

Baghdad initiative to go door to door - Yahoo! News

Dinar-Excited

Originally Posted by adm

NOOZZ.COM CBI

Updated: 1/5/2007 12/28/2006 Last Official Update

IQD/curr curr/IQD

USD 0.00075 1325.000 USD 1325.000

EUR 0.00058 1720.165 EUR 1739.063

GPB 0.00039 2553.125 GPB 2592.495

JPY 0.08969 11.150 JPY 11.157

CHF 0.00093 1070.562 CHF 1081.368


This is from NOOZZ.COM Site.

Take a look; all currencies moving except USD...I wonder why? This as of 1/5/2007 yesterday.

The rate is set relative to the US dollar so they move together relative to other currencies.

Originally Posted by Mike5200

This was originally posted at that other forum in April of 2005

The amount posted is not the amount in circulation but the amount printed. There is a difference, they are not going to have all that they printed in circulation. They have to keep a certain % in reserves.

Thanks Mike, had no idea what the time frame was, but figured it was a little old. Thought I'd throw it out there tho in case some members were not aware. Stiil, have they issued any since then, or are these numbers solid?

Gloribee

Originally Posted by greatstuff

The rate is set relative to the US dollar so they move together relative to other currencies.

From the CBI site, I can understand that, however, what about NOOZZ. It's stable (USD) and other currencies are moving; NID gaining. I would assume that USD is moving as well. Or, is the $ gaining against the other currencies? Is 1325 the correct number on NOOZZ? Am I understanding this correctly?

Originally Posted by adm

From the CBI site, I can understand that, however, what about NOOZZ. It's stable (USD) and other currencies are moving; NID gaining. I would assume that USD is moving as well. Or, is the $ gaining against the other currencies? Is 1325 the correct number on NOOZZ? Am I understanding this correctly?

1325 is the CBI rate. That's why I said what I did. It looks like they're reporting that, then the equivilant in other currencies at today's rates against the dollar.

NOOZZ.COM

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