Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 28/03/10 - 21/06/10

Electricity projects in Basra to foreign firms only

The Basra Provincial Council has decided that electricity projects in the province have to be executed by foreign firms only.

“Specialized companies will only be allowed to execute such projects,” a source from the council told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday.

He expected that these projects’ value exceeds ID100 billion.

“The Basra Provincial Council will invite foreign firms to delegate their representatives to Basra to discuss these projects,” the source added.

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Hill optimistic over Iraq political process

US ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said he is optimistic over the dialogue between the Iraqi political parties which aim at forming a new government. The US Ambassador said that choosing the Iraqi Premier is a private Iraqi issue stressing that USA looks forward to cooperate with any government chosen by the representatives of the Iraqi people.

Forming a new government and the talks process show that the parties are hurrying towards solving the conflicts and complications that surround the government formation process, said Hill during the press conference held in the US Embassy in Baghdad. He also added that the aims of all the political parties stress that it is necessary to have a Cabinet that represents the Iraqi people and that realizes its ambitions without excluding any party. The meeting between Iraq current premier Al Maliki and the head of Al Iraqia List Ayad Allawi comes in the framework of the exerted efforts in order to push the political process forward.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...l-process.html

Atta links Central Bank attack to Al Qaeda

Lieutenant Kassem Atta stressed that Al Qaeda traces are obvious in the attack that aimed the Central Bank adding that the operation started at the end of the end of official working hours. An explosive blasted near the electricity generator and after that a group of 4 terrorists broke into the principal door of the bank where security forces confronted them.

At that time the group members blasted themselves and a second terrorist group moved towards the second door. Security forces killed two terrorists and an intensive firing took place. Atta added that a fire erupted in some of the building floor which attained some documents and papers, however armed men did not detain any armed citizen inside the bank.

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Death toll of Central Bank attack reaches 21

A source in the police said that the death toll of Central Bank attack and the clashes that took place therein reached 21 and more than 72 people were wounded. A source told Alsumaria News that a lot of papers and contracts in the Central Bank were burnt but the Central Treasury was not damaged.

To that, security sources said that the 16 attackers were dressed with army clothes and reached the Central Bank headquarters as a troop which is about to carry on an inspection.

The same sources added that the first suicide bomber blasted himself in the middle of Civil Defense troops when they went to the second floor in order to extinguish the fire. Afterwards, armed men set off the fire as others started to invade other floors. The same sources concluded by saying that the trigger of the operation is to prove the group’s existence and to challenge the state by breaking into one of its important symbols adding that the aim was not stealing.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...eaches-21.html

Al-Bayati is likely to be a session of parliament starting point for meaningful dialogues between the parliamentary blocs

Expected to lead in the state of law Abbas al-Bayati, on Monday, that the parliament session on the new legislative term platform for meaningful dialogues between the parliamentary blocs, he said, adding that the meeting proceed to the line drawn, one for each blocks.

The al-Bayati, in an interview aired on Al-Iraqiya said that today's meeting will launch a meaningful dialogues because all the blocks will be interested to go to the talks, noting that the last debates held between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, as well as between the parties to the other lists are already indicate that there is a new phase meetings and dialogues that will put everyone in front of national responsibility.

He added that all the parliamentary blocs, is now at the start line one, and I think that today's meeting opened skylight light on the reality of the political process

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Infallible raise the first session of parliament after half an hour to be held

The Parliament Fuad Masum, Monday morning, the first meeting of new Council of Representatives, which witnessed the performance of the deputies to the Constitutional right, after half of its opening, to keep an open meeting to give the political blocs have the opportunity to talk about forming the next government.

Masum said, at the end of the first session of the new parliament, which was held Monday morning in the conference room in downtown Baghdad that was supposed to be elected on the Presidency of the Council of Representatives under Article 55 of the Constitution, but found that there is a need for greater consultation between the blocks and members, therefore, remain The meeting is open and be resumed at a later date."

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Infallible opened the first parliamentary session of the absence of Talabani

Was opened by the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Fuad Masum, Monday, the work of the first session of the new legislative term absence of President Jalal Talabani.
An informed source told (Voices of Iraq) that the meeting was opened today under the chairmanship of Deputy Kurdistan Fuad Masum, and missed by President Jalal Talabani.
The media source in the House said earlier that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will deliver a speech during the meeting.

The source added that the word infallible was preceded by the Iraqi national anthem, my home, and then reading from the Holy Quran.

It is hoped to see today's meeting to be chaired by Hassan Masum after the withdrawal of the upper and Mahmoud Othman, are the first and second in the order of the oldest member, is sworn in for new members of parliament's 325 deputies won parliamentary elections that took place on the seventh of last March.

Consists of the new parliament of a number of major powers, the most prominent national coalition that wins over the 159 seats in the 325 seats is the total seats in the House of Representatives (89 seats for the rule of law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the National Coalition led by the President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim 70 seats ), and the Iraqi coalition led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi won 91 seats, the Kurdistan Alliance led by President Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan leader Massoud Barzani (43 seats).

The Parliament has a new well, the Vice-change movement led by Mustafa Nushirwan's 8 deputies, compatibility list, led by former speaker of parliament Iyad al-Samarrai of 5 seats and the coalition and the unity of Iraq, led by Interior Minister Jawad al-b, 4 seats, and the Kurdistan Islamic Union, 4 seats, the Islamic Group of Kurdistan B-2 seat, as well as eight seats for the quota of minorities.

The new Council of Representatives elected council is the third and the second permanent parliament is elected after the fall of the former regime in April 2009.

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Director of the Eni: production profit in the field of al-Zubayr before the end of this year

Revealed the Executive Director of the Italian energy giant, "Eni" Paolo Scaroni, from the ambitious target of increasing production through the development of the Zubair oilfield in Iraq in order to reach later this year to the stage of profit "as he put it.

The Scaroni told a news briefing on the sidelines of the signing ceremony of a memorandum of cooperation in sports between Italy and Iraq at the Foreign Ministry in Rome, "We will profit on the basis of the increase in production, and thus will play the time factor played an important role," he said, "The investment will increase with time, and will be a total of twenty billion dollars during the fifteen-year-old is supposed to self-financing, in part," he said.

And on production in field of Iraq, said Managing Director for Eni "We have to start from one hundred and eighty-two thousand barrels a day, and we hope to reach over seven years to one million and two hundred thousand barrels," adding that "profit starting from one hundred and eighty-two thousand barrels plus ten percent" no "from the rate of two hundred thousand barrels" per day.

The Scaroni that his group is "digging a dozen new wells," he said "This area will create lots of jobs," describing the memorandum of cooperation Sports bilateral between Rome and Baghdad signed Sunday as a "help to restore normal life and true peace in the country.

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Killing all insurgents who attacked the Central Bank of Iraq in central Baghdad

Said the director of security CBI said seven insurgents were killed while trying to break into the bank on Sunday afternoon, explaining that the incident also resulted in the fall of some 16 employees of the Bank of dead or wounded.

Abdel Mahdi al-Amiri told (Voices of Iraq) that the gunmen who tried to storm the Central Bank were all killed and their bodies were found at the scene of the seven bodies, pointing out that about 16 of the bank employees were killed or injured by the incident.

He explained that the material damage caused to the Iraqi Central Bank exchange building, but he also but the bank will not close its doors today (Monday).

The official spokesman of Baghdad Operations Command, Major General Qassim Atta said that security forces foiled an attempt to storm the Central Bank of Iraq Al-Rasheed Street in central Baghdad, on Sunday afternoon, indicating that the process killing three insurgents and killed 15 citizens dead or injured.

Atta reported that the incursion began when a gunman detonated an explosive device which exploded, and the deaths and injuries, before trying to insurgents, who were dressed in military uniforms to enter the bank building.

The history of Central Bank of Iraq back in 1931 when the Council was created by the currency of Iraq in London for the issuance of paper currency and maintain a reserve of "new dinar," which was linked to price of the tie with lb British until 1959, and in 1947 founded the National Bank, the Iraqi government bank and canceled currency board in 1949, should he receive the new bank is responsible for issuing paper currency and to maintain this reserve .. In 1956, instead of the name of the National Bank of Iraq to the Iraqi Central Bank, and his responsibilities included the issuance of currency management and control of foreign exchange transactions and the supervision and control over the banking system.

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Advisor to the Central Bank: the bank will continue to work normally

Adviser said the CBI, Sunday, work will normally Monday inside the central bank and all banking operations, including the auction of foreign currencies, and without any impact of armed action in which he was on Sunday afternoon.

The appearance of Mohammed Saleh told (Voices of Iraq) that armed action in which he was the Central Bank (Sunday) will not affect the conduct of banking operations, which, as will continue normally, indicating that the financial system in Iraq are being subjected to attempts to stop the wheel of progress, but this will not happen because the banking past to the front.

Will hold the Iraqi Central Bank auction of five meetings a week starting from Sunday to Thursday for the sale and purchase of foreign currencies, and receive a cash commission on the sale of about 13 dinars per dollar, and receive a commission of five dinars per dollar on the sale of remittances outside the country.

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