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

Originally Posted by flygirl1

Well gang, A funny thing happened today. (not ha ha) I called Bank of America and Wells Fargo Banks today and asked them if they would be exchanging the dinar when the reval happened. I talked to a manager at Wells Fargo. They didn't even know what a dinar was or what I was talking about. Any thoughts on this? I find this strange since it seems that the dinar is about to peg and none of the banks even know what it is.

Funny,

In my experience bank employees are only one step above fast food joint employees. LOL You have to talk to their exchange departments, never a local branch employee, for they are mostly clueless.

Good luck to all, MIke

I can ALWAYS count on all of you to eaze my troubled mind. I am not going to have a mind if this thing doesn't peg soooooon!

Originally Posted by pipshurricane

Al-Zarqawi's cell phone reportedly yields surprises

Monday, July 3, 2006; Posted: 7:38 a.m. EDT (11:38 GMT)

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appears in a video on Al-Jazeera in April.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had the phone numbers of senior Iraqi officials stored in his cell phone, according to an Iraqi legislator.

Waiel Abdul-Latif, a member of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party, said Monday that authorities found the numbers after al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.

Abdul-Latif did not give names of the officials. But he said they included ministry employees and members of parliament.

He called for an investigation, saying Iraqis "cannot have one hand with the government and another with the terrorists."

Meanwhile, al-Zarqawi's wife told an Italian newspaper that al Qaeda leaders sold him out to the United States in exchange for a promise to let up in the search for Osama bin Laden.

The woman, identified by La Repubblica as al-Zarqawi's first wife, said al Qaeda's top leadership reached a deal with U.S. intelligence because al Zarqawi had become too powerful.

She claimed Sunni tribes and Jordanian secret services mediated the deal.

"My husband has been sold to the Americans," the woman said in an interview published Sunday. "He had become too powerful, too troublesome."

She was identified only as "Um Mohammed," which means "mother of Mohammed" and would be a nickname, not her full name.

The Rome-based newspaper said the interview was conducted in Geneva and described her as Jordanian and about 40 years old.

In Jordan, Al-Zarqawi's eldest brother, Sayel al-Khalayleh, said the family had not been aware of the woman's whereabouts for about two years.

Iraq's national security adviser said Sunday that al-Zarqawi had been buried in a "secret location" in Baghdad despite his family's demand that the body be returned to his native Jordan.

Mouwafak al-Rubaie would not say when the Jordanian-born militant was buried, or give any specifics on the location of the grave.

The U.S. military confirmed the burial but declined to give details.

"The remains of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi were turned over to the appropriate government of Iraq officials and buried in accordance with Muslim customs and traditions," the military said in an e-mailed statement. "Anything further than that would be addressed by the Iraqi government."

Al-Zarqawi's brother demanded that his body be transferred to Jordan, and accused the United States of lying.

"Bush took his body to the United States," al-Khalayleh told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home in the Jordanian city of Zarqa.

"Even if he is buried in Iraq, we will continue to ask for the body to be transferred and buried in Jordan," he said. "He should be buried in his own country."

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/me....ap/index.html

Very interesting,

One would imagine there are plenty of spy activity among parliament members, and this will go a long way to weed them out. Sad to think that some were feeding information to insurgents which led to killings of so many police and our forces, but it was expected as money is behind it all, always is. Should be interesting to see how all this shakes out.

Good luck to all, Mike

Originally Posted by flygirl1

I can ALWAYS count on all of you to eaze my troubled mind. I am not going to have a mind if this thing doesn't peg soooooon!

I just came to this forum, and I recognize a few of the monikers from other forums. The one rumor that seems to stand out above all the others is that they can not go past July 31st w/o RV, because they are under contract to have it done before August 1st. The news (esp news from the middle east) seems to reflect that this rumor has real merit. Does that sound pretty consistent with what has been been floating around this forum as well?

Treater, Who are they under contract with?

Originally Posted by flygirl1

Treater, Who are they under contract with?

IMF, I believe

there was one report that an agreement existed with some international organizaion, WTO or IMF.. not sure, which had a deadline of end of july for a reval, but that same report mentioned the granting of an extension until octover 1st. i will search for it a bit.. it was posted back in this thread days ago.

Originally Posted by clueless

there was one report that an agreement existed with some international organizaion, WTO or IMF.. not sure, which had a deadline of end of july for a reval, but that same report mentioned the granting of an extension until octover 1st. i will search for it a bit.. it was posted back in this thread days ago.

TY clueless

Ok Treater, If you have some scoops give it up! We can't stand anticipation. What do you know?

back on june 27 cigarman posted the following.. believe he found it on another forum as well...

Originally Posted by cigarman

xxxxx In order to give the Iraqis an open window it was determined by xxxxx to enhance the peg opening of the Iraqi Dinars to as late as of October 1 of 2006. xxxxx So yes it is still set in stone for currently on July 21 but xxxxxx will give the Iraqi Finance Ministries maximum opportunity to resolve the final remaining issues and obstacles for succeeding. The Iraqi Financial Ministry has formally requested to renegotait the new value of the New Iraqi Dinars. This rate will be determined based on new inflation figures and total economic impacts from Iraq all three sectors. xxxxx

There was other detail in the e-mail but the main point is the peg can be delayed by Iraq and could happen anywhere between July 21, to Oct. 1, 06. Sorry, please don’t shoot the messenger!

Here is the post. Cigarman