Thread: Iraq/Dinar News up until March 18th Midnight ctz

Originally Posted by Webster

1278, same as yesterday.

Obviously they are waiting on something.....we just need to figure out what?????

Originally Posted by Pippyman

Obviously they are waiting on something.....we just need to figure out what?????

SBA expiry............

Originally Posted by Adster

SBA expiry............

Okay......so when does that happen Adster?

Originally Posted by Pippyman

Okay......so when does that happen Adster?

22/3. We should hear what the IMF said from yesterdays meeting on Thursday.

Who remembers this?


The Central Bank of Iraq Denies Change Dinar Early Next Year

Safed Alsamuk-Baghdad

The Iraqi Central Bank denied that the change of the local currency within the current Iraqi actions he intends to begin work so as to meet the economic inflation in Iraq with the beginning of the year 2007.

The official spokesman said told ((today)) announced yesterday that there is no intention to change the Iraqi dinar at the moment, He refused to disclose whether there were any similar intention in the near future, after the Financial experts recommended deleting three zeroes from the Iraqi dinar after the American dollar to her and about a thousand dinars.

The spokesman noted that the launching of the issuance of new categories of the Iraqi currency into circulation depends on the requirements of the Iraqi economy to meet the expenses of the state in the coming stage, especially local supervision of the banking activity by the central bank and means of reform...

US military plans Iraq pullout if ‘surge’ fails


Iraqi soldiers move into British base in Basra as they prepare to take responsibility for security in area.
WASHINGTON & BASRA, Iraq, 13 March 2007 (Middle East Online)

Pentagon planners have begun work on a fallback position for Iraq that includes a phased pullout of US troops in case the current "surge" strategy fails or is undercut by Congress, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
The "surge" proposed in January by President George W. Bush calls for sending 21,500 additional combat troops and several thousand more support forces in order to pacify Baghdad and other key parts of the country.
But citing unnamed military officials and Pentagon consultants, the newspaper said the alternative strategy was based in part on the US experience in El Salvador in the 1980s.
During the 1981-1992 El Salvador civil war, the United States deployed 55 Green Berets to aid the Salvadoran military in its fight against leftist rebels.
The report said that some historians believed that their presence had helped the United States to gradually professionalize the Salvadoran army and curb its abuses while avoiding a large-scale US military involvement.
A drawdown of forces in Iraq, The Times said, would be in line with comments made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He told Congress that if the "surge" failed, the backup plan would include moving troops "out of harm's way."
Such a plan would also be close to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, of which Gates was a member before his appointment to the Pentagon, the paper said.
"This part of the world has an allergy against foreign presence," the report quotes a senior Pentagon official as saying of Iraq.
"You have a window of opportunity that is relatively short. Your ability to influence this with a large US force eventually gets to the point that it is self-defeating."
The new round of planning is taking place in an atmosphere of extraordinary tension within the Pentagon, The Times said.
Some support the new commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, who advocates using more US forces. Others back General John Abizaid, the retiring Central Command chief, who favored handing over security responsibilities to Iraqis.
Meanwhile, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace has made several references to El Salvador in recent congressional hearings and private Pentagon meetings, The Times said.
The senior Pentagon official said Pace's repeated references were a signal that in the chairman's view, success in Iraq might not depend on more combat troops, according to the report.
Iraqi soldiers move into British base
Iraqi soldiers have raised their flag above a British base in the southern city of Basra as they prepare to take responsibility for security in the area, the military said on Monday.
Elements of the 10th Division of the Iraqi Army have joined their British colleagues from the Staffordshire Regiment in the Shatt al-Arab Hotel, a town centre stronghold which comes under frequent militia mortar attack.
In the coming weeks and months British troops are to pull out of two bases inside Basra and a logistics centre outside the city, in order to concentrate their force at a single compound at Basra airport.
British troops will also continue to protect the consulate located in central Basra.
The 7,200-strong force is to be reduced by at least 1,500 by the end of August and could be cut by up to half by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the locally-recruited 10th division will fill the gaps.
"The first elements of the Iraqi Army's 10th Division moved in the middle of least week. There is an Iraqi flag flying over the Shatt al-Arab hotel," British army spokesman Major David Gell said.
"This is another important step for the Iraqi army as they develop their capabilities and gradually take more responsibility for their own security.
"It is pleasing that the move went so smoothly and offers encouraging signs for the future as everybody continues down the road towards Iraqi self reliance," he added.
Basra is Iraq's second city and the hub of the country's oil industry.
The British force's four-year-old mission to pacify the city has been hampered by armed clashes between rival tribes and political Shiite militias, the brutality and corruption of the local police and insurgent attacks.
At least 132 British soldiers have died since the March 2003 invasion led by US and British forces and their bases still come under almost daily mortar or rocket attack.

U.N. chief to host meeting Friday on Iraq Compact to promote the country's development
By EDITH M. LEDERER
13 March 2007 (AP Worldstream)
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to host a meeting Friday so the Iraqi government can brief U.N. member states on a five-year plan to ensure the government has funds to survive and enact key political and economic reforms.

The Iraq Compact was set up shortly after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took office in June 2006 to "consolidate peace and pursue political, economic and social development."

Friday's meeting also will "provide the Iraqi government with an opportunity to inform potential donors on the progress made in the implementation of its commitments," Ban said.

In his quarterly report on Iraq circulated Monday, Ban expressed hope that the date and venue for the launch of the compact will be identified as soon as possible, noting that the documentation has been finalized.

Ban said in Monday's report that he strongly believes "that positive political progress and a reduction of violence are essential preconditions for the success of this initiative."

Since December, however, the report said high levels of violence have continued to overshadow political and reconstruction efforts.

"The worsening security situation, particularly in Baghdad and in the southern and western regions, continues to undermine the ability of the government of Iraq to deliver essential services, create jobs, and reconstruct socio-economic infrastructure," it said.

The U.N. Mission in Iraq and the country team will continue reconstruction efforts wherever possible, including providing support for the International Compact "while also maintaining a strong advocacy role in humanitarian and human rights issues," the report said.

"Ultimately, the Iraqi people and their leaders face a fundamental choice, between seeking a negotiated political settlement or drawing further into the abyss of sectarian conflict," Ban said. "I believe that it is still not too late to turn the tide and prevent further escalation."

As of January, contributions to the U.N. Development Group Iraq Trust Fund totaled $1.12 billion (A850 million) and some 113 projects have been approved for funding, Ban said. He also noted that the fifth meeting of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq Donor Committee will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 20.

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The meeting of the Council of Deputies today attest discuss the extension of the state of emergency

Zulfiqar Ali-13 / 03 / 2007

The director of Information Office of the President today, Tuesday, the House of Representatives is scheduled to take place during the meeting of the Council today discussed approval to extend the state of emergency imposed in the country.

He explained Mr. Muhannad Abdul Jabbar told (Voices of Iraq) Independent that the House of Representatives today held its second meeting in its third Legislature, which are expected to include approval of the extension of the state Altore and take a decision on Iraqi citizens living outside Iraq and refused nominated refugees in addition to a number of other bills. The council held its first meeting in the Legislative separated III yesterday, Monday, and its head, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah, First Deputy Chairman of the Board.

Vice President Dr. Adel Abdel Mahdi reassured on the health of the President of the Republic before leaving Amman to New York

March 13, 2007

March 13, 2007

استقبل رئيس الجمهورية جلال طالباني في عمان يوم الاثنين 12/3 الدكتور عادل عبد المهدي نائب رئيس الجمهورية الذي قام بزيارة فخامته للاطمئنان على صحته.

President Jalal Talabani in Amman on Monday, March 12, Dr. Adel Abdel Mahdi, the Vice-President of the Republic, which had paid a visit to His Excellency to check on his health.

وكان نائب رئيس الجمهورية قد وصل العاصمة الأردنية عمان أمس، في طريقه إلى نيويورك ليرأس الوفد العراقي المشارك في اجتماع العهد الدولي لدى الأمم المتحدة.

The Vice-President of the Republic has reached the Jordanian capital of Amman yesterday, on his way to New York to head the Iraqi delegation participating in the meeting of the International to the United Nations.

The House of Representatives will discuss drafts law on investment in the oil industry and human rights



ناقش.Discussed in the House of Representatives during its first legislative THREE held yesterday a number of important laws including the second reading of the third amendment to the draft bill on the maintenance of the irrigation and drainage networks No. 12 of 1995 and the second reading of the draft law on private investment liquidation of crude oil in addition to the first reading of the draft law on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
القراءة.He said first deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah, who chaired the meeting : that the relevant committee requesting postponement of the second reading of the law regulating broadcasting frequencies, due to the completion of the governorates.
ويتناولThe law regulating broadcasting frequencies and the organization of the work of the mobile phone networks and broadcasting via radio to the media on television and radio and the development of the law of the Communications and Information is responsible for granting special leave mobile phones and transmission via the Iraqi ether.
.Objected to the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Safa net on the postponement, he said : that the government needs to enact the law, in addition to that there is a full-fledged Ministry for its work.
تاماً.And in relation to said Member of Parliament (Iraqi National List) Judge Wael Abdel Latif to the meeting yesterday : that agriculture in Basra collapsed completely collapsed.
ان .He added Abdul Latif during a subsequent meeting that the reason for the deterioration is due to the lack of agricultural supplies and higher wages instead of land to four times what it was under the decision of the Ministry of Agriculture.
وكان.The parliament yesterday, the first reading of the draft law of the irrigation and drainage networks, which provided for the doubling of wages instead of land for those who default on the payment for the first half of the year.
65%).Abdul Latif said that agriculture in Iraq need material support, and not to increase the tax burden, especially to farmers in representing Iraq (60 - 65%).
.He continued : strange in the subject that citrus fruits fall to Basra from Egypt, Kuwait and the other and this is what I have known through the preventive Balmlakat and farming associations in Basra.
.His Therefore, the need to support agriculture, seeds, fertilizers and water.
.And Hazralinab coalition of common Muhammad Naji serious risks of Iraq, especially the building of large dams by Turkey which would rivers Tigris and the Euphrates to the imbalance in the level of water which would lead to a catastrophe for Iraq, pointing out that the water that would go to Iraq if the dam will be one quarter the quantity contained for years.
وفيية .In the second reading of the draft law on private investment liquidation of crude oil, which aims to encourage the development of national industry through the creation of private refineries and marketing of oil and oil products and implemented by foreign companies or joint Iraqi and foreign companies with high potential and competent Iraqi laws to international standards.
كما ينص.The project also provides for the operation of 75% of the size of the Iraqi working conditions and the level of Tknluji sophisticated and equipped the Ministry of Oil refineries and crude oil prices and the export price of oil on board the tanker minus minus 1% in addition to the transportation of crude oil, where she holds the Oil Ministry memorial, maintain and operate meters and that the company investing set up an oil pipeline that links from the point of delivery and refinery also entitled to keep investing company traded crude oil received from the Ministry of Oil in addition to the possibility of the company to determine the prices of petroleum products exported inside Iraq or outside Iraq, according to the prices of the Free Zone.
.The law says that rent land, which will work on projects for a period of 40 years, where she holds the Ministry of Finance met and the right to withdraw the letter of the law to form a ministerial committee on behalf of the Investment Committee for the liquidation of oil membership includes the oil, finance and planning, environment and be linked to the Council of Ministers will consider the requests.
وناقش .The representatives discussed extensively the articles contained in the draft law to develop in a way that suits the industrial development of Iraq, said Dr. Mahdi Al-Hafiz member of the Iraqi List to the importance of the indivisibility of articles pointing out that the oil regard to oil operations and indivisible part of the state's general policy, stressing the importance of regulating this the law is part of a comprehensive strategy and a number of deputies called for amendments in the law so serious that integrate all staff and postpone discussion until approval of the draft of oil and gas.
.The Chairman of the meeting, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah hold a hearing to the House today to discuss a number of draft laws on its agenda.
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