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

Originally Posted by ezcash

Thanks Franny.. I just got on IIF also...

Neno, I recieved a email from the branch manager at CA. Bank and she told me the following:
"International is limited on the amount that they can exchange on a daily basis. This was not disclosed in the beginning. Also the bank is limited on the amount we (bank) can ship and store. So until the actual day arrives B of A is able to exchange up to $350k -$450k at one time."

This info. is in reference to right now before the rv.. so just shows they are
gearing up to do business... can't get a time frame from her tho.. of course we would know before her right?

ez

Hummm. I didn't think of that to ask. I will be back in on thursday Morning. I will double check. I have gotten different answers from different branches, I also know that this is all new to them as far as the iraq currency.

I was also wondering if it was coming from the Federal Reserve, why. It would seem to me that they were wrong. Doesn't make sence for the FR to deplete it to Americans.

Originally Posted by danny51

Hey clue, how do you know all this stuff? You must be a teacher!!

nah. google is ez

Tue Sep 5, 2006 2:11 PM EDT

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Fed up with car bombs and death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.

"I had to leave it all and come here. There was no chance for us in Baghdad. The day we left, our neighbors came out to congratulate us. Life is good here. I have made Kurdish friends," said the 50-year-old microbiology specialist.

Thousands of Arabs like Hamid have arrived among the ethnic Kurds of the soaring northern mountains, fleeing the violence gripping much of Iraq since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

The trend is a stunning reversal for Iraq's Kurdistan, home mainly to non-Arab Kurds. During the 1980s, tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in the region during Saddam Hussein's military campaign, which emptied entire villages.

In June, Hamid set up a private clinic in Sulaimaniya, in partnership with a cardiologist and an orthopedics specialist -- both of whom are also from Baghdad, 205 miles to the south.

It is not only doctors and academics who have fled north, leaving once-prestigious hospitals and universities in Baghdad without qualified specialists and scholars.

Arab laborers from the Shi'ite south and the Sunni heartland have also sought refuge from the violence. Now, hundreds sleep on cardboard boxes in Sulaimaniya's public parks, scratching out a living in the booming construction sector or working as porters for Kurdish merchants.

There are no official figures for the number of Arabs who have resettled in Kurdistan, but anecdotal evidence suggests it has become a magnet for those who can't afford to go abroad.


Iraq's Kurdistan has been semi-autonomous since a failed uprising against Saddam in 1991 that led the United States and Britain to establish a no-fly zone across the region.

The 2003 fall of Saddam, who is on trial for genocide for the seven-month campaign against the Kurds in 1988, deepened the region's autonomy and its relative calm set it apart even more.

Many of the Arab laborers -- Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims alike -- come from regions where their communities are at each other's throats. More than 3,000 people were killed in sectarian bloodshed in July alone.

But in the crowded parks of Sulaimaniya they seem to live in harmony. They pray together in the old mosque, share meals and sleep on the withered grass, head to toe, their few possessions -- usually spare sandals and an extra shirt -- lying nearby.

"I left my home because I was scared of getting killed. I feel safe here and have a job," said Hassan Ali Mohammed, a Sunni who arrived in June from Baquba, a city north of Baghdad, which has seen some of the worst violence in the country.

Mohammed, who makes $10 a day working as a mason, said Kurds were kind and local police didn't bother them as long as they stayed away from the city's main park, which is across the street from a hotel frequented by foreigners.

"We are all poor in this park, Shi'ites and Sunnis. We get along. We all want to work," said Mohammed Hassad, a Shi'ite from Hilla, south of Baghdad, who arrived in August.

While violence has left much of Iraq's economy in tatters, cities in Kurdistan are prosperous with building cranes popping up and foreign firms looking for bases. Rents have soared, the region offers tax breaks to firms, profits can be transferred out of Kurdistan and foreign companies can own land.

Kurds seem generally happy that their economy is expanding enough to absorb the labor of their Arab neighbors, although many Kurds are also unemployed, especially in the countryside.

But some Arabs complain of feeling unwelcome in the far north and Arab-Kurd struggles for control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk remain a potential flashpoint for conflict.


According to Iraq's Ministry of Displacement and Migration, about 200,000 people have fled their homes due to sectarian violence since the bombing of the Samarra mosque in February.

But the number of refugees is likely to be far higher because ministry figures do not include those who flee abroad or resettle in other parts of Iraq.

The population shift is consolidating a de facto partition along ethnic and sectarian lines. In religiously mixed Baghdad, officials and residents talk gloomily of the emergence of a Shi'ite-Sunni "Green Line," with the Tigris River as a border.

he drift north is also creating a brain drain.

Iraqis living in Baghdad and in other cities find it increasingly difficult to track down a surgeon or dentist. Many are turned away at emergency rooms with the words: "The doctor is not here. Go to Jordan or Kurdistan to get treated."

In the 1980s, Iraq boasted some of the best doctors in the Arab world and many traveled to Baghdad to be treated.

Hamid, the microbiologist, said he has no plans to return to Baghdad any time soon and that he has even learned some Kurdish. He said the doctor who replaced him at his Baghdad hospital was kidnapped for a $40,000 ransom.

"I still have a house in Baghdad," he said. "One day I will return. But only when there is security."

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/New...mber=2&summit=

Originally Posted by mbuna13

Thanks for the update Neno.

Too bad it is only select Chase banks.

The ones here in AZ are not selling Dinars. And the Compass Bank where I got my first batch is also no longer selling them.

Luckily for me. DinarInfo.com recommended on this forum is actually located right here in Arizona. So a made one more purchase Friday from them, and they arrive promptly today. :) Only delayed due to the holiday. I did not get the same great Chase rate, but I got superb service.

Great, you Implevised and Adapted. Cool. I Looked at my New Case Account and have Noticed it says on the checks: JPMorgan ChaseBank, N.A. I dont know if that is a Select Chase are not.

Originally Posted by neno

Hummm. I didn't think of that to ask. I will be back in on thursday Morning. I will double check. I have gotten different answers from different branches, I also know that this is all new to them as far as the iraq currency.

I was also wondering if it was coming from the Federal Reserve, why. It would seem to me that they were wrong. Doesn't make sence for the FR to deplete it to Americans.

I went to Chase today in Denver, and they told me it comes from American Express on the west coast

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

I went to Chase today in Denver, and they told me it comes from American Express on the west coast

You know I saw Rodneys recipt today for the order he did friday. It said from JPMorgan Chase, in New York. I will have mine thursday and try to img it for the thread.

By the way I ordered the Mill in 50,250,and 500 nids, We will see.

Originally Posted by danny51

One man's poison is another man's nectar...get over it.

and the horse you rode in on. fella. you republican.

Originally Posted by neno

You know I saw Rodneys recipt today for the order he did friday. It said from JPMorgan Chase, in New York. I will have mine thursday and try to img it for the thread.

By the way I ordered the Mill in 50,250,and 500 nids, We will see.

It still does not matter if we have the larger denos right?

Originally Posted by jsfletcher

It still does not matter if we have the larger denos right?

To me it is all Money. I just never got any of those. Just thought I would since I could. Thats all.

Originally Posted by ourhouse37

and the horse you rode in on. fella. you republican.

LOL, I don't know how to ride a horse yet...neno needs to teach me when he gets his ranch all setup in Colorado!! Hey, I thought it was against the forum terms of use to call each other names...you democrat.