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

Originally Posted by dinartank

Opened an account a few days ago Placed an order today!!! $886 per mill and as i was placing the order a call came in and it was somebody asking if their order of dinar came in and to my suprise she pulled out 6-8 packages to check to see if his or hers was one of them. Word is definetly out. Then some other bank specialist came up asking about someone elses order im telling you at this branch this stuff is hot and on fire i kid you not i couldnt believe what I was seeing. Its only a mater of time folks.
Tank

WOW!

Thanks for that little tid bit there... amazing stuff. Did you say something about the issuing of smaller denoms?

With all the negative press coming out about Bush and the HCL..There is No doubt that something Good is about to transpire.

Bush to Unveil New Plans for Iraq War
By TERENCE HUNT
AP
WASHINGTON (Jan. 8) - President Bush will address the nation at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday about his new approach for the war in Iraq , the White House said. Bush is expected to announce an increase of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops.

Bush's decisions, more than two months in the making, already are drawing criticism from new Democratic leaders in Congress who say it is time to begin ending the war, not to send in more U.S. forces.

Now in its fourth year, the war has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 members of the U.S. military and was a major factor in the Republicans' loss of Congress in the November election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., told Bush in a letter last week that "we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success."

Bush will follow up his speech by traveling to Georgia on Thursday to talk with soldiers at Ft. Benning. On the same day, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be quizzed about the president's policy during appearances before congressional committees.

White House press secretary Tony Snow said Monday that Bush "understands there is a lot of public anxiety" about the war. On the other hand, he said that Americans "don't want another Sept. 11" type of terrorist attack and that it is wiser to confront terrorists overseas in Iraq and other battlegrounds rather than in the United States.

Snow said he contacted television networks Monday morning to request air time for the president's speech, to be delivered at the White House and run about 25 minutes. Snow said the administration welcomes a debate about Bush's new policy.

"I think it's important to get congressional support," the spokesman said. Yet he would not say whether Bush will seek specific congressional approval for his new strategy.

"Rather than me jumping out and talking about resolutions and budget items and all that, I'm not going to do it," Snow said. "But there will be a debate about the particulars in the way forward, as there should be. We welcome it."

Pelosi on Sunday cautioned Bush to think twice before proposing a troop increase, suggesting the new Democratic-controlled Congress could deny him the funding.

But the Senate's top Republican said he believed that Bush will get the money he needs and cast doubt that Democrats would - or could - block him. "Congress is incapable of micromanaging the tactics in the war," said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

In issuing her warning, Pelosi made clear that her party supported boosting the overall military size "to protect the American people against any threats to our interests" and would not cut off money for troops already in Iraq.

But Bush will not get a blank check for an open-ended commitment there, she said. Any funding he seeks for additional forces in Iraq - Bush's expected plan could send as many as 20,000 more U.S. troops - will get the "harshest scrutiny."

"The burden is on the president to justify any additional resources for a mission," said Pelosi, D-Calif. "Congress is ready to use its constitutional authority of oversight to question what is the justification for this spending, what are the results we are receiving."

"There's not a carte blanche, a blank check for him to do whatever he wishes there," she added in an interview taped Saturday and broadcast Sunday.

Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress has approved about $500 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and other terrorism-fighting efforts. The White House is working on its largest-ever appeal for more war funds - a record $100 billion, at least. It will be submitted along with Bush's Feb. 5 budget.

While leading Democrats reaffirmed their opposition to a troop buildup, several did not join Pelosi in suggesting it was possible Congress could deny Bush the money for the additional forces.

"I don't want to anticipate that," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a 2008 presidential candidate, said increasing troops would be a "tragic mistake." But he contended Congress was constitutionally powerless to second-guess Bush's military strategy because lawmakers had voted to authorize the commander in chief to wage war.

"As a practical matter, there's no way to say, 'Mr. President, stop,'" said Biden, D-Del., unless enough congressional Republicans join Democrats in persuading Bush that the strategy is wrong.

Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., wrote in Sunday's Washington Post that boosting troops for an indefinite time was necessary to secure peace in the Mideast.

"When we authorized this war, we accepted the responsibility to make sure they could prevail," he wrote. "Even greater than the costs incurred thus far and in the future are the catastrophic consequences that would ensure from our failure in Iraq."

Pelosi spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation," McConnell and Hoyer appeared on "Fox News Sunday," and Biden was on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Court Dismisses Charges Against Saddam
Tapes Reveal Ex-Dictator Discussing Chemical Attacks
By LAUREN FRAYER
AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Jan. 8) - Saddam Hussein had been dead nine days but his voice resounded through the courtroom Monday as he and his cousin "Chemical Ali" discussed killing thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, according to audiotapes played at their war crimes trial.

Saddam's physical presence was gone - his chair in the white metal pen where the defendants sit was empty - but his aura still hung over the proceedings against his former regime members.

The trial reconvened for the first time since Dec. 21 and a little more than a week since Saddam was hanged for the killing of 148 Shiites after an assassination attempt in the town of Dujail in 1982.

Meanwhile, new video of Saddam's corpse shortly after the hanging was posted on the Internet. It showed a gaping wound on Saddam's neck, with his head unnaturally twisted at a 90 degree angle to his right.

The video appeared to have been taken with a camera phone, like the graphic video of the hanging which showed guards taunting Saddam in the final moments of his life.

The court's first order of business Monday was to dismiss all charges against Saddam. His co-defendants - including his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" - remain in the dock for allegedly killing 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s as Iraq fought a protracted war with Iran .

Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon aired graphic video during Monday's court session of scores of bodies in trucks and in piles on the street, overlaid with a voice purported to be that of al-Majid saying, "I will hit them with chemical weapons."

"Damn the international community if they say anything. I will strike them all with chemical weapons," the voice continued.

Another audiotape had a voice identified as Saddam's warning, "These weapons are only used at my orders." He also reassured colleagues that the weapons "kill by the thousands."

"It will force them out of their homes without water or food. It makes them evacuate their homes naked," the voice said.

In court, Al-Majid described the video as "painful," but said it showed the work of Iranian troops, not Iraqis. As for the audio, al-Majid did not deny the voices were his and Saddam's.

The tapes "not only condemn me, but the whole path that I was part of - the path of Saddam Hussein," al-Majid said.

Legal experts said they hoped Saddam's six co-defendants would be more forthcoming with the dictator no longer listening.

Legal scholar Tariq Harb said the trial could make more progress without Saddam, who sometimes quietly glared at witnesses, shouted at them, or launched nationalists tirades that got him thrown out of court.

"The trial will be more elastic and easy. It will clarify and expose more facts because Saddam Hussein's disappearance from the dock will encourage other defendants to mention some facts that they were afraid to divulge when he was with them," Harb said.

Also Monday, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two more American soldiers: one from combat wounds in Salahuddin province, which includes Saddam's hometown, and another from small-arms fire north of Baghdad.

And the White House said President Bush would lay out his new approach for the Iraq war in a speech Wednesday. Bush was expected to announce an increase of as many as 20,000 U.S. troops in a bid to contain sectarian warfare.

Iraqi police, meanwhile, reported the discovery of 27 tortured bodies in the capital and the deaths of 23 other people, including nine Shiite workers gunned down in a minibus on their way to the Baghdad airport.

Aside from al-Majid, the co-defendants in the so-called Anfal trial are former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Tai, who was the commander of Task Force Anfal and head of the Iraqi army 1st Corps; Sabir al-Douri, Saddam's military intelligence chief; Taher Tawfiq al-Ani, former governor of Mosul and head of the Northern Affairs Committee; Hussein Rashid Mohammed, former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi armed forces and Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, former head of military intelligence's eastern regional office.

When al-Majid first took his seat in court Monday, he tried to turn on his microphone to speak publicly. The judge quickly shut it off.

Before the trial adjourned until Jan. 11, Al-Faroon also presented a document allegedly signed by al-Ani, calling for the execution of 10 members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party headed by current Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Al-Ani denied the handwriting was his.

"This is not my signature and I'm sure of that," he told the court.

for those of you who follow numbers and their meanings etc.
<lookin over shoulder for black helicopter>
i thought i would mention that wednesday is the tenth and that would make it 1-10-2007. adding those numbers together separately, 1+1+0+2+0+0+7=11

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

1-10-2007. adding those numbers together separately, 1+1+0+2+0+0+7=11

you mean like 1:1!

A weak banking awareness and the need for rehabilitation
Baghdad-Sabah
09 01 07

A person banking some inherent characteristics of the banking system, which is considered one of the most important reasons for failure and called for work to develop their own programs to change radically in order to develop the performance of this system and transform it into the ranks of leading international banks for playing a big role in the activation of the Iraqi economy.
This came in the search by the assistant general manager of the banking and credit control in the Central Bank of Iraq and Idi Walid Abdel Nabi, which is marked "the most important characteristics of the banking system in Iraq and proposals for development" to a seminar of economic reform, organized by the Ministry of Industry and Minerals last year.
Because of the ideas aimed at raising the efficiency of performance of the banking sector at a time when the Iraqi economy from the distortions many for his contribution to the solution of important aspect considered "morning" to highlight the salient features of the research in this important.
He sees banking Walid weak awareness of banking and non-arrival of the Iraqi economy and society to the global level in this area is the most prominent feature in this area, which calls for the deployment banking awareness within the Iraqi society and the banks themselves through the development of banking services and dissemination.
Based on this analysis that the density bank in Iraq "the number of banks on the number of people" at the same bank every 46632 people, compared to the standard of banking density banks and one each ten thousand inhabitants.
He pointed out that the actions of Idi fiscal policy to merge government banks and reduce their number because of the security conditions are another indication of deepening awareness of the weakness of the banking emphasizing the necessity of separating the future after the demise of reasons.
One of the characteristics of the predominance of private banks by the family nature, and here is the problem of the narrow interests of the family, which is the result of the ownership and management with this situation caused the loss of banks between the wishes of the owners of capital and banking requirements and this is another factor indicates the weakness of the banking culture.
The absence of public banking strategies actors and the lack of all policies provided by the Banking Act and the Law of the Central Bank of Iraq, and this is another characteristic of the private banking system.
The researcher that the absence of institutions videotapes of the banking system and its insurance company, such as deposits and other insurance loans or offices for the study and analysis of banking and other dangers.
Idi pointed out that many other problems led to the decline of banking work in Iraq, including weak technological means used by banks and the problems of counterfeit currency and documents damaged and the problem of the transfer of money and provide services at the expense of secondary tasks, such as distribution of salaries of retired President and others.
He said : "All these issues are enrolled banking work, and the reason for the delay.
Idi researcher commented on the basic problems faced by government banks reference to the composition of boards of directors in government banks and combine public administration and the Governing Council is to be mentioned that most decisions made of a political and individual and far from the banking system affects the results of the bank.
Go further than that in referring to the method of distribution of profits that impede the access of governmental banks to a minimum of capital because the method of distribution, according to a banking expert opinion does not take into account the actual needs for the development of banking operations.
To reduce these impacts researcher proposes the development of the use of automation in the banking and appropriate software, and the reorganization and rehabilitation of the banking staffing, exempting banks from the burden of secondary services.
It demands a researcher studying the conditions of banks jurisdictional governmental organizations (real estate, industrial, agricultural, cooperative), and an investment bank into one and increase its capital and reconsidering the law on public companies and the breakdown of profits and boards of directors.
And calls to encourage banks to make loans and the establishment of joint bank loans and insurance company for insuring deposits to ensure the protection of depositors and banks.
The impression findings of the "morning" that the banking sector needs to restructure the banking system to the requirements of the current stage of the Iraqi economy.
The question that presents itself when the banking sector can address the challenges facing the challenge of rehabilitation? This is one of the things Page economic during 2007 within its means to highlight economic reform.

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Easing unemployment problem in 2007
09 January 2007 (Al-Sabaah)

It's expected that 2007 would witness more of procedures aimed to decrease peoples' loads socially, economically and service that would join with local regional and international political effort to face security situations in Iraq.

On the other hand experts said that budget of recent year includes plan to put down unemployment as economic reports mentioned that economic programme would applied in 2007 includes rerunning stopped factories to give opportunity for unemployed Iraqis.

Meanwhile, Iraqi officials think that hardship and loss jobs lead to force youths to hold arms and accept allures of terror groups which offer money for them, while Ministry of Labor renewed its resolution to employ thousands of unemployed and support who wish to carry out small projects.

Easing unemployment problem in 2007 | Iraq Updates

Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil

News Analysis: Military spending in the Gulf is viewed as a 'hidden cost' of oil - International Herald Tribune

Sadr-Saudi :: Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: The region's economic outlook for 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/opinion/09tue1.html

Iraq to give Western companies control of oil: report

The heat against Muqtada al-Sadr has obviously been turned up in the US media within the past few weeks. Al Sadr's militia is unfailingly labeled as "extremist," as opposed to the presumably more "centrist" Badr Brigades, even though the latter has reportedly been more heavily involved in the sectarian violence against Sunnis than the Sadrists have. The more cynical among us may take this as a sign that the US has reason to believe that al-Sadr is going to stand in the way of the proposed new Iraqi hydrocarbons law. Al Sadr recently met with Ayatollah Sistani and it is a safe bet that the proposed law figured prominently in the discussion.

Several weeks ago, the United States reportedly tried to arrange to have SCIRI and other compliant political parties leave the United Iraqi Shi'ite list in order to form a new coalition with Sunni elements in the Iraqi parliament. Sistani reportedly used his influence to prevent this from happening. At the same time, however, the Sadrists were exploring a coalition of their own with Sunni parties that share the Sadrist’s nationalist goals of having foreign military forces leave Iraq and for a strong central Iraqi government that has complete control over future oil revenues. Reporter Pepe Escobar, writing in Asia Times, explains the significance of this:

"The crucial development in the next few weeks is Muqtada's fine-tuning of a stunning Shi'ite counterpunch to demolish once and for all the US-created pro-sectarian strategy: a nationalist, pan-Islamist, anti-occupation coalition of the Sadrists and the neo-Ba'athists,plus any other religious or secular anti-occupation group. Transcending the Sunni/Shi'ite divide, this would preempt any threat of all-out civil war - not to mention decide the fierce Shi'ite family feud between Hakim and Muqtada in the Sadrists' favor. No wonder US Senator John McCain wants to "take out" Muqtada as much as the Pentagon does."

A recent interview with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on PBS NewsHour seemed to confirm that the United States is preparing to escalate hostilities against the Mehdi Army if the Sadrists stand in the way of the passage of the proposed hydrocarbon law:

MARGARET WARNER: Now, you've been speaking with some of those leaders. They've come to Washington in the last couple of weeks. After those discussions, how feasible does this idea of a new moderate coalition within the Iraqi government sound to you, that is one that splits off the more radical Shiites, the ones allied with Sadr, and the more moderate Shiites go in with the Sunnis, some Sunnis and Kurds? Is that feasible?

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Well, the definition is: Are these people who are now willing to have a plan for national reconciliation — which means hydrocarbons law, for instance, the sharing of resources — and are they willing to stand by the Iraqi armed forces, the Iraqi prime minister when he goes after the people who are...

There has been a virtual media blackout in the American press when it comes to the proposed hydrocarbon law and the significance of its introduction within the Iraqi parliament, which is reportedly scheduled within the next few days.

"Victory in Iraq" is a phrase that is being used constantly with little attempt to explain what form such a victory may take.

However, passage of the hydrocarbons law, which would essentially obligate Iraq to hand over control of its oil resources to Big Oil for the next 30 years would likely constitute such a victory in the eyes of the US political and industry leaders who pushed for the Iraq invasion in the first place.

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