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

Folks look out for disinformation. Remember they want as much dinar back in the vaults as they can get.

What the heck is this all about? Looks like fun, i wanna go!

Britain and rich recreational activities and great prizes will be held on the evening of Saturday, 13-01-2007

marsadiraq.com

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

AWESOME POST.....Let's hope tonight or tomorrow is cashin' in day! Again, great article!

Hope that awsome post doesn't derail the HCL passage - expect to see article in the NY Times and Washington Post very soon.

لاقتصادEconomic inflation in Iraq negatively affects the economy factors


MENAFN) Economists view that the Iraqi economic phenomenon of inflation, which has begun to increase, reaching a potential threat to the Iraqi economy, which witnessed the Iraqi economy, in 2006 the phenomenon of inflation, which has begun to increase, and had reached a record threatens the Iraqi economy factors, and this phenomenon is one of the most prominent events in Iraq during the past year.

وأكد .Economists and experts said that the phenomenon of inflation experienced by the Iraqi economy is one of the most serious economic phenomena because they are still continuing without any finding radical solutions to eliminate or control, noting that part of a State policy to eradicate this phenomenon include raising the interest rate and other procedures, which is a means of controlling the phenomenon rampant in Operation Iraqi economy, not destroy it.

وكاندولار.One of the most prominent things that can be considered productive actions of the Iraqi government during 2006 is the start of the rescheduling of commercial banks and foreign private sector to the government, with a bill of international Batafah equivalent conditions of the Paris debt, or 20 billion dollars.

.In addition, the government's decision to raise fuel prices by 125% compared to last year which had a big impact in raising the prices of foodstuffs, consumer goods and others, the creation of the appropriate environment for the growth of the phenomenon of inflation, but of optimistic expectations for the rehabilitation of the Iraqi economy is the balancing of work in 2007, it is just the expectations must be backed up by the state to raise the value of the Iraqi dinar against foreign currency. و30 %.It should be noted that the rate of inflation during the past year ranged Between 25 and 30%.

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network

The Iraqi Minister of Oil from near the formation of the federal oil and gas, which would be the highest authority in Iraq, as the new council headed by the Iraqi Prime Minister or his deputy for economic affairs, membership and Zrate oil and Finance and the Central Bank, and representatives of provincial governments.
.The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil that the functions of the Federal Council of the oil and gas development plans will be to develop oil fields in all parts of the country, and mechanisms of negotiation and preparation of sample contracts to be concluded with foreign companies for exploration and production of oil and gas.

مشيرا .He pointed out that the companies that will be contracted, and the ratification of the contracts development and investment.


I didn't know the CBI was involved in the oil stuff

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Originally Posted by rvalreadydang

لاقتصادEconomic inflation in Iraq negatively affects the economy factors


MENAFN) Economists view that the Iraqi economic phenomenon of inflation, which has begun to increase, reaching a potential threat to the Iraqi economy, which witnessed the Iraqi economy, in 2006 the phenomenon of inflation, which has begun to increase, and had reached a record threatens the Iraqi economy factors, and this phenomenon is one of the most prominent events in Iraq during the past year.

وأكد .Economists and experts said that the phenomenon of inflation experienced by the Iraqi economy is one of the most serious economic phenomena because they are still continuing without any finding radical solutions to eliminate or control, noting that part of a State policy to eradicate this phenomenon include raising the interest rate and other procedures, which is a means of controlling the phenomenon rampant in Operation Iraqi economy, not destroy it.

وكاندولار.One of the most prominent things that can be considered productive actions of the Iraqi government during 2006 is the start of the rescheduling of commercial banks and foreign private sector to the government, with a bill of international Batafah equivalent conditions of the Paris debt, or 20 billion dollars.

.In addition, the government's decision to raise fuel prices by 125% compared to last year which had a big impact in raising the prices of foodstuffs, consumer goods and others, the creation of the appropriate environment for the growth of the phenomenon of inflation, but of optimistic expectations for the rehabilitation of the Iraqi economy is the balancing of work in 2007, it is just the expectations must be backed up by the state to raise the value of the Iraqi dinar against foreign currency. و30 %.It should be noted that the rate of inflation during the past year ranged Between 25 and 30%.

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network

Does this mean anything?

Originally Posted by zipper

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Does this mean anything?

Not to me but i dont know a damn thing ! Not sure anyone does at this point sure hope someone in iraq has a tight grip on the ball and has their eye on the goal line. And for gods sake we know they have fresh legs as they have been on vaction for ever. here is to it being the right goal line

Originally Posted by zipper

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Does this mean anything?

no it don't mean anything - when they the changed it from arabic to english they were kind enough to delete the arabic out - arabic is wrote backwards from right to left and that was the last part of the sentence 30%.

I hope I explained that right for ya
chris

less then 3 hour to pres bush speech

Iraq PM tells Shiite militias to give up

By STEVEN R. HURST
26 minutes ago



Iraq's prime minister has told Shiite militiamen to surrender their arms or face an all-out assault by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, senior Iraqi officials said Wednesday, as American and Iraqi troops prepared major military operations aimed at ending sectarian warfare in Baghdad.

The move came as President Bush said he will send an additional of 21,500 American combat troops to Iraq, according to excerpts of a speech the president was set to deliver later Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, head of Iraq's Shiite-led government, previously had blocked several U.S. attempts to crack down on fighters controlled by his most powerful political ally, Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical Shiite cleric.

"Prime Minister al-Maliki has told everyone that there will be no escape from attack," a senior Shiite legislator and close al-Maliki adviser said. "The government has told the Sadrists: 'If we want to build a state we have no other choice but to attack armed groups.'"

Al-Maliki on Saturday announced that his government would implement a new security plan for Baghdad, which consists of neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweeps by Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops.

In the past, the Iraqi government has tried to prevent American military operations against the Mahdi Army, while giving U.S. forces a free hand against Sunni militants. The Bush administration has pushed al-Maliki, who took office in May, to curb his militia allies or allow U.S. troops to do the job.

Although al-Maliki withdrew political protection from the Mahdi Army, there was no guarantee the Shiite fighters would be easily routed from the large and growing area of Baghdad under their control.

The militia has more fighters, weapons and sophistication today than it did in 2004, when it battled U.S. forces to a standstill in two strongholds, the Shiite holy city of Najaf and Sadr City, Baghdad's sprawling Shiite slum.

Sunni militants, meanwhile, have put up fierce resistance in the five days since al-Maliki announced his new security initiative for Baghdad.

Iraqi and U.S. troops have battled Sunni insurgents along Haifa Street in central Baghdad in two major battles.

The neighborhood is only about 2 1/2 miles north of the Green Zone, site of the Iraqi government headquarters, the U.S. Embassy and base for thousands of American soldiers.

Eighty suspected insurgents were killed in the fighting — 50 of them on Tuesday alone, in an assault backed by U.S. troops, fighter jets and attack helicopters.

According to the excerpts of the president's speech released in advance by the White House, Bush will send 21,500 more troops — 17,500 of them to help pacify Baghdad,

The increase in troop levels was expected to be part of a larger military and economic effort intended to turn around a 3 1/2-year-old war that has cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars and more than 3,000 lives.

In preparation for the new security plan, the Iraqi military will bring two brigades from northern Iraq, a region largely populated by Kurds, and one from the south.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died, many of them in the capital in the past year — after the war became a religious conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. Sectarian violence began after the February bombing of a major Shiite shrine by al-Qaida in Iraq.

While apparently responding to U.S. pressure to pursue Shiite militia fighters, Al-Maliki has not commented on the Bush administration's reported plans to create a set of benchmarks for the Iraqi government.

Washington wants the prime minister to come up with a plan to equitably share the country's oil wealth, ease restrictions on former Baath Party members and hold provincial elections — steps regarded as critically important to drawing Sunnis into the political process.

An Iraqi general, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details of the plan, said a mainly Kurdish force would be sent into the Sadr City slum in northeast Baghdad, which serves as headquarters of the Mahdi Army.

The general said Kurds, who are Sunni but not Arab, were being used against the Shiite militia because soldiers from other Iraqi units were likely to refuse to fight fellow Shiites. An estimated 80 percent of Iraq's army is Shiite.

Under the new security plan, the general said, U.S. and Iraqi troops will sweep Baghdad neighborhoods in an effort to dislodge the Mahdi Army, as well as Sunni extremists — including al-Qaida in Iraq and two of its allied groups, the Ansar al-Sunnah Army and the Omar Brigade.

Iraqi and U.S. officials said Iraqi commanders will be put in charge of each of nine city districts. Each commander will operate independently of Iraqi military headquarters.

Al-Maliki has named Lt. Gen. Aboud Gambar, an Iraqi general who was taken prisoner of war by U.S. forces during the 1991 Gulf war, as the overall commander.

Gambar, a Shiite, will have two assistants, one from the police and one from the army, Iraqi military officers said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information. Gambar will report directly to al-Maliki.

The Americans plan to put 400 to 600 U.S. soldiers in each district as a backup force, a senior Bush administration official said Wednesday. Others will be held in reserve throughout the capital to deploy quickly on the request of Iraqi commanders.

One senior U.S. official said al-Maliki agreed to stop protecting the Mahdi Army under pressure from both the U.S. and his fellow Iraqis.

"It is time to perform, and that's the message he's getting from his own people, that's the message he's getting from the president and that's the message he's getting from the American people," the official said in a conference call with U.S. reporters.

The official said the al-Maliki "plan will work" because it frees his military from political and sectarian influence.

The latest drive to pacify Baghdad is at least the fourth since the war began. All have had only limited success, with insurgents and militants swiftly returning to neighborhoods after U.S. and Iraqi military forces departed.

In the most recent of these operations, Iraq's army fielded fewer troops than promised. That made it impossible to maintain control of areas that U.S. forces had cleared of gunmen.

Police on Wednesday reported that at least 92 people had died violently or been found dead across the country.

In a single deadly attack, Sunni gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims home from the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia, according to police and Akeel al-Khazaali, the governor of the southern province of Karbala.

At least 11 people were killed and 14 wounded. Al-Khazaali told Iraqi state television that some of the slain pilgrims had been severely burned in the ambush, which occurred about 75 miles west of the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Police said 60 bodies, many of them victims of torture, were found in Baghdad Wednesday. Seven more were discovered in the northern city of Mosul. Shootings, mortar attacks and bombings at various places around Iraq claimed another 14 lives.

The U.S. military announced Wednesday that four more American soldiers died of combat wounds in Iraq. A Task Force Lightning soldier assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division died Tuesday from a gunshot wound sustained in the Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.

Two more soldiers died the same day in Iraq's western Anbar province. One was assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, and one was assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division.

A 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soldier was killed by a roadside bomb outside of Fallujah.




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