Thread: Iraq/Dinar News until 6/17/07 8:30 PM CST

Originally Posted by cashNsoon

I have not heard anything about that! SGS by no means I am I saying this negitive........do you have a source of this information???

Because if this is true......and no auction......plus a few other tidbits.....this could be promising.

the latest version, now they are saying saturday morning lift: Aswat Aliraq

Curfew in Baghdad until Saturday morning -media source

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Thursday , 14 /06 /2007 Time 3:34:19




Baghdad, Jun 14, (VOI) – The Iraqi government decided to extend the curfew imposed on Baghdad after Wednesday's bombing at Samarra's al-Askari mosque until Saturday morning, a cabinet media source said.

"The Iraqi government has decided to lift the curfew on Baghdad on Saturday morning," the source, who refused to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that the streets of Baghdad's eastern side of Rasafa were almost empty of people and vehicles, at a time when forces from the Iraqi police and army were sealing off the main streets in the capital.
"Sadr city in eastern Baghdad is quiet and almost void of armed clashes," an eyewitness told VOI.
Another witness said that life in the city has returned to normal. "Markets have reopened, but traffic is slow and limited to cars within the city," he explained.
In the aftermath of the bombing attack, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki imposed a curfew on the Iraqi capital Baghdad at 3:00 pm and until further notice.
The two shrines have been protected by Iraqi security forces since April 1st.
The domes of the two shrines came under a similar bombing attack in February 2006, which left them completely destroyed. Sectarian armed clashes followed in many Iraqi provinces, particularly in Baghdad.

SS/TP

Arbil, June 14, (VOI) - U.S. President George W. Bush made a phone call to the President of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barazani, while U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte arrived in the region, a statement released from Barazani's office said on Thursday.

"President Bush phoned Massoud Barazani on Wednesday night, during which they discussed the latest developments in Iraq and in Kurdistan," read the statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The U.S. president voiced his country's commitment to the democratic process in Iraq and emphasized the alliance between the two countries for the good of the Iraqi people," the statement also said.
"He expressed respect and appreciation to the Kurdish president for his active and positive role within the Iraqi political process," it noted.
Meanwhile, Barazani received the visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and David Satterfield, the senior adviser on Iraq to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, at Salah el-Din resort on Wednesday.
"The meeting dwelt with the latest developments in Iraq's Kurdistan as well as Baghdad' law-imposing plan," read another statement released from Barazani's office.
Negroponte, who arrived in Iraq last Tuesday, met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a number of senior Iraqi officials to discuss political and security issues in the country.
David Negroponte served as U.S. Ambassador to the country in 2005.


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14 Jun : 13:53
Clerics from the Sunnis and Shiites in Basra to hold a joint meeting
Luna / June 14 / Basra / A number of Shiite clerics and Sunni meeting in the great mosque of Basra to deal with the long Annv number of mosques in Basra. A member sternum trend in Basra, Sheikh Abdul Razzaq al-Nidawi We are here to affirm to all that big between Sunni, Shiite, while we condemn the bombing of the Imam Memente military operations in Samarra, they also condemn any attack on the mosque in the Sunni brothers. He added that Sheikh al-Nidawi Mr. office of martyr al-Sadr in Basra was ready to cooperate with the security services in the province to provide any protection needed to protect our Sunni brothers mosques / / completed / p u / oo / security ..

Aswat Aliraq

Thanks all.....Smoke and mirrors..................................

Originally Posted by Ialdoboath

Foreign Policy: The List: The Worlds Worst Currencies

From FP Magazine article:
Iraq
Currency: The new Iraqi dinar (NID)
Inflation rate: 40.92 percent in April 2007
Exchange rate: 1,260 NID per US$1
What went wrong? The war. In October 2003, the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority introduced the New Iraqi Dinar to replace the old “Swiss” dinars that featured the likeness of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. But the new design may have been the high point for the NID. Iraq’s inflation rate averaged 50 percent last year, as spiraling security costs and persistent shortages of gasoline fueled rampant inflation, while black market profiteers bid up the unofficial price of petrol. Struggling to keep inflation in check, Iraq’s beleaguered central bank allowed the dinar to appreciate by 14 percent and raised interest rates to 20 percent in December 2006. Inflation reached a peak of more than 66 percent in January 2007, but declined to a “mere” 40 percent in April. It’s an encouraging sign, but unless the country’s raging sectarian violence gets under control, not even Alan Greenspan will be able to turn Iraq’s economy around.

This is supposed to be a prestigious foreign policy periodical. Perhaps they smoked one too many Cubans and pickled themselves in too many flasks of Macallan Fine [New York’s most expensive Whiskey] whatever the case most of the article is wrong.

Gosh, this proves one thing, I'm glad I didn't subscibe to this magazine!

Originally Posted by wciappetta

This is supposed to be a prestigious foreign policy periodical. Perhaps they smoked one too many Cubans and pickled themselves in too many flasks of Macallan Fine [New York’s most expensive Whiskey] whatever the case most of the article is wrong.

Gosh, this proves one thing, I'm glad I didn't subscibe to this magazine!

lets expose the magazine and article post-revalue.

The House of Representatives voted to draft some laws
بغداد ـ الصباحBaghdad morning
.The House of Representatives held its seventh session open headed by Sheikh Khalid al-Attiyah, first deputy chairman of the Board will be held on Monday, 11th June 2007 at the Conference Palace in Baghdad.




هذا.This has been the voice of Council members on the draft laws of Criminal Procedure Amendment Act military and the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court No. 10 of 2005 as well as members of the Council voted to rescind decisions proposals laws Revolution Command Council dissolved numbered 199 for 2001 and 690 for 1981 and 1283 to 1980 and 1019 to 1979 for 1253 and 1985. .It was the second reading of the draft law to join the International Agency for Investment Guarantee and the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Islamic Corporation for Insurance of Investment and Export Credit.
.This has fully meeting rose at two thirty in the afternoon session to be held next Tuesday approved the nineteenth of June.
Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

lets expose the magazine and article post-revalue.

Yeah .... a big fat advertisment in the National Review or the Weekly Standard

the impact of news on the attempts to change government



intellectuals and academics : Iraqis want to take the nation and people above reconciliation
القطانBaghdad-Khalid Qattan
.The intellectuals and academics denounced attempts by some political parties change in the current government, which you talked about some of journalistic sources recently.



واك.The intellectuals that belongs to Iraq and the soil and improve suffering of the Iraqi people should think of building a new Iraq away from self-interest or group interest and praised the effort of the government of Maliki leading to save Iraq and the Iraqis of their plight.
الخطيرةExpansion of the gap serious
.Sa'ad said Matar Abboud-researcher and academic : should the loves of Iraq belongs to the soil and improve the plight of the Iraqi people, to think of his position to build Iraq, it must exceed itself and get rid of those Nerjseth political thinking and thinking and true patriot, and declares his allegiance to the homeland, However, shakes hands every national Sharif and zealous to serve Iraq, and not to assume a seat presidential or ministerial, and recruited followers of eroding the body of Iraq, and conspires with this and that behind the scenes to resort to pragmatic excuses not sing nor protect from hunger. .He added : The days and events have proved that the Prime Minister Mr. al-Maliki works to save Iraq and the Iraqis of their plight. ؟He wondered why not put our hands Bedie Mr. Malki whether working for Iraq and the Iraqis? نهاية.Abboud stressed that the government conspiracy to Maliki and to try and pull the carpet from under the current government is an expansion of the serious gap with Iraq, and plunged the country into crisis suffocating them early and not an end. .It is believed that anyone who seeks and is trying to overthrow the government, the sole power and His Holy and not to save Iraq.
لانتخابيةTruer tests election
.According to Salman al-writer and poet, that the efforts of some political parties and calls for the formation of a new political bloc, to change the current government, leading to the beginnings of change and the toppling of the former regime, and the endeavor of the United States to devote discord between classes and sects of the Iraqi people in the hope of perpetuating the occupation. make Iraq as a springboard for expansion in the region to complete its strategic outlook in ****e of the claims and promises apparent. واضاف.He added : America has succeeded in imposing limits evaluation causes of dissension and infighting between factions and parties and sects after the havoc, collapse and caused the deterioration of the security situation and shattered infrastructure and the absence of the border.
.It is believed that after the slave America this endeavor, and the corresponding conditions precedent imposed dictatorial regime for pitting one party over the other, and playing on the internal balances and regional facilitated fertile ground for the birth of all forms of conflict, which in turn led to the widespread devastation caused by the elements of public life in the country. political opponents and made in the service of solving the basic objectives of the nation and the people, and believed that the slave political opponents had disagreed with the most basic things that are supposed agreement, because of suspicion and distrust between them, in addition to the defense and selfish attitudes based on shared governing behavior. .He continued, has emerged recently as a result of what I said lawsuits Party and resorting to force and obstruct the work of government, even before the parties calculated on the executive and Parliament, but has gotten subject to a political blocs backed arms, money and supplies external calls for a change of government, even if the use of force, according to Abd. ان .He added : that the advocates of political change in the current government or the coup it might fact that the era of coups has passed irrevocably, for a variety of reasons, including the fact that Iraq has exceeded this odious legacy, He is now a country governed by the electoral system is governed by a constitution and a democratic voice for the people in a referendum by the 12 million Iraqi citizens, and the government which came through the electoral process is one of the best experiences in the modern world.
ب.It is believed that the slave what is happening on the Iraqi political scene, particularly the parliamentary process of appeal to conspiracy and seize opportunities by some political parties, is clear proof of the bankruptcy of some forces and its desperate attempts to fish in the dark, Proof of this is an attempt by some MPs to overturn the democratic process through employment practices or through alliance or terrorist use some of the parties to terrorize deputies from the true representatives of the people. .Unfortunately, this blatant division between the various parties in the parliament, and the absence of a sense of the national capital to those who intentionally disrupt the country's march towards liberty and safety, construction and social welfare.
راغماتيةEthnically motivated Pragmatism
بصفة ثقافة.The writer believes the media and Mohammad Sa'idi, secretary editor Pghaddadna, that the basic problem was that the Iraqis had received the Congo in the context of the proceedings, did not receive as a culture. .He said : We have moved the Iraqi people from dictatorship to repress democratic loose, and added that the directions of some political parties to overthrow the existing government is the result of the uncontrolled democracy from the people that hit the kill. .It is also believed that there is a trend in parliament, and the latest trend within the government obstructing the performance of the current government, and seeking to isolate it from the grass roots, as elected, and felt that this being the result of sectarian motives and pragmatism, which is based on pursuit behind halo, money and titles and power away from Alchukiqih interests of the Iraqi people.
يةFoment a civil war
.Nassif, astronomy, novelist and journalist : said that the conflict that is going frantic in our country is a struggle over power and privileges between the various contenders using the sectarian slogan them, and lackeys of the former regime and stand in line with them started Elmelmun fragments and remnants of history counterfeiter who fell to the fall of Saddam and the Baath, According to fail with these days who started resisting the fall of the regime, once and for all, who placed all of their rocks and poles on the road to train the new Iraq, and tried all of their scheming, several gimmicks, which were provided to them by history forged, in the words of the orbit, the escalation of violence, murder and believed that life and conditions is stronger than death, which is sacred doctrine espoused and murderers and criminals, and most failed plots and conspiracies, de****e the magnitude of Iraqi victims in the bombings and Altevkhikh campaigns to slaughter. .He continued : "Those who were supporting the former regime had took off the mask and Alaarobih Alaslamueh and allies publicly with some regulations, and placed their bets on toppling the government of the new Iraq, and if they can not, they try to derail the downfall, and they could not Vbashahal sectarian war, and added : Those struggling and struggling in an attempt to lift the then counterfeiter who placed their bets, and fell forever, so we do not lose the underdevelopment Itnamon them.

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/

is anyone able to access the cbi? i was refreshing it for the last 5 hours and now it wont bring up a page at all, just a google search.