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Invisibility Iraqi newspapers for the second day and two days
(Voice of Iraq) - 31-01-2007
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Invisibility Iraqi newspapers for the second day in the coming two days
By Hamid al-Hamrani
Karbala - (Voices of Iraq)
Gains Iraqi newspapers today, Wednesday, for the second day running in Baghdad because of the holiday, which is the 10th, and will continue occultation of the coming two days, while the continued invisibility of the local newspapers in Karbala, for the sixth day.
The chief editor of the newspaper (morning) and the semi-official Fleih Dae News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, Wednesday, that the invisibility of the press in the next two days was the result of today, Wednesday, the 10th of Muharram holiday yesterday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
He explained that "an agreement has been reached with the printing presses not suspended until Saturday."
He said that the distributors will exploit these days to look for another place safer after the Renaissance lot of violence.
It should be pointed out that the door is the great place for the distribution of the approved daily and weekly newspapers a few years ago in what is known as Exchange newspapers were transferred to the Renaissance by the Rusafa from Baghdad recently after clashes in the areas of credit and close to the chest area.
For his part, the journalist Mohamed upper one fixed columnists in the newspaper (evidence) issued by the Hezbollah movement in Iraq that the invisibility of the press "is not in the interest of the country, especially since the Iraqi street has more questions about the operations that took place in Najaf and the victims who were killed in Baghdad and other governorates during the visit of the Ashura ceremony. "
He adds upper, "I think that the Press Syndicate must take it upon themselves to organize the issuance of newspapers in the official holidays and days of the emergency."
And in relation to, lived Karbala (108 km south of Baghdad) for six days without newspapers because the local authorities impose curfews on vehicles since last Saturday in anticipation of the occurrence of acts of violence or infiltration ceremony to mark the occasion of Ashura, which started last Sunday, the first of Muharram and ended yesterday, Tuesday,. "
The governor of Karbala announced that more than a million and a half visitors and visiting coming from all Iraqi governorates, and some Islamic countries ceremonies ended Tuesday evening amid strict security measures.
It is proposed that the main contractor for the distribution of newspapers in Karbala, Hassan Ibrahim, "the establishment of Oxford both newspapers support from the government or investment by domestic capital to adopt the printing and distribution of newspapers in Karbala and the nearby provinces without passing to the capital Baghdad, which is witnessing acts of violence permanently. "
He continues, "newspapers reach Karbala, nine and a half to ten because that is not distributed in Baghdad only after sunrise to fears of Asthdahm by gunmen. "
He adds, "Karbala and Najaf and Hillah distributed more than thirty-five thousand copies a day. "
The Iraqi newspapers had gains of nine days at the beginning of the new year because of Eid Al-Adha and Christmas.
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A number of parliamentary figures proposed law allocations of oil for the Iraqi people, and the proposal to the presidency of the Council. And demanded that she be examined and inclusion on the agenda, with a view to be discussed and endorsed, while deputy Mahdi Al-Hafiz remarks on the proposed legislation, including amendments and suggestions of additional complementary

Are the Iranians Out for Revenge?
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 By ROBERT BAER
The speed and level of chaos in Iraq is picking up fast. An apocalyptic cult came uncomfortably close to taking Najaf, one of Shi'a Islam's most holy cities, and murdering Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Sistani is the neo-cons' favorite quietist Shi'a cleric, the man who was supposed to keep Iraq's Shi'a in line while we went about nation building. And then, on Sunday, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad told the New York Times that Iran is in Iraq to stay, whether the Bush Administration likes it or not.

Just when you thought you knew the players in the war, a cult tries to take over the holy city of Najaf

And that's not the worst of it. American forces still hold five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Arrested by American forces in Erbil on Jan. 11, the five are accused by the Administration of helping the Iraqi opposition kill Americans.

I've written here before that the IRGC has a long history of calculated violence against its enemies, particularly the United States. The Administration's accusations are plausible. But at the same time the U.S. needs to remember what a serious spoiler the IRGC can be when provoked.

In July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration.

Some Iraqis speculate that the IRGC has already started a campaign of revenge with the killing of five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20, nine days after the arrest of the IRGC members in Erbil. As the logic of the rumor goes, five American soldiers were killed for five Iranians taken; Karbala was an IRGC message to release its colleagues — or else.

The speculation that Karbala was an IRGC operation may have as much to do with Iraqis' respect for IRGC capacity for revenge as it does with the truth. Nevertheless, we should count on the IRGC gearing up for a fight. And we shouldn't underestimate its capacities. Aside from arming the opposition, the IRGC is capable of doing serious damage to our logistics lines. I called up an American contractor in Baghdad who runs convoys from Kuwait every day and asked him just how much damage. "Let me put it this way," he said. "In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar." He said his convoys now are forced to pay a 40% surcharge to Shi'a militias and Iraqi police in the south, many of whom are affiliated with IRGC.

Mindful of the spreading chaos in Iraq, President Bush has promised not to take the war into Iran. But it won't matter to the IRGC. There is nothing the IRGC likes better than to fight a proxy war in another country.

Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.

Originally Posted by Par77

Are the Iranians Out for Revenge?
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 By ROBERT BAER

The speed and level of chaos in Iraq is picking up fast. An apocalyptic cult came uncomfortably close to taking Najaf, one of Shi'a Islam's most holy cities, and murdering Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Sistani is the neo-cons' favorite quietist Shi'a cleric, the man who was supposed to keep Iraq's Shi'a in line while we went about nation building. And then, on Sunday, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad told the New York Times that Iran is in Iraq to stay, whether the Bush Administration likes it or not.

Just when you thought you knew the players in the war, a cult tries to take over the holy city of Najaf

And that's not the worst of it. American forces still hold five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Arrested by American forces in Erbil on Jan. 11, the five are accused by the Administration of helping the Iraqi opposition kill Americans.

I've written here before that the IRGC has a long history of calculated violence against its enemies, particularly the United States. The Administration's accusations are plausible. But at the same time the U.S. needs to remember what a serious spoiler the IRGC can be when provoked.

In July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration.

Some Iraqis speculate that the IRGC has already started a campaign of revenge with the killing of five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20, nine days after the arrest of the IRGC members in Erbil. As the logic of the rumor goes, five American soldiers were killed for five Iranians taken; Karbala was an IRGC message to release its colleagues — or else.

The speculation that Karbala was an IRGC operation may have as much to do with Iraqis' respect for IRGC capacity for revenge as it does with the truth. Nevertheless, we should count on the IRGC gearing up for a fight. And we shouldn't underestimate its capacities. Aside from arming the opposition, the IRGC is capable of doing serious damage to our logistics lines. I called up an American contractor in Baghdad who runs convoys from Kuwait every day and asked him just how much damage. "Let me put it this way," he said. "In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar." He said his convoys now are forced to pay a 40% surcharge to Shi'a militias and Iraqi police in the south, many of whom are affiliated with IRGC.

Mindful of the spreading chaos in Iraq, President Bush has promised not to take the war into Iran. But it won't matter to the IRGC. There is nothing the IRGC likes better than to fight a proxy war in another country.

Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.

WHAT THE F IS THE MATTER WITH THESE ANIMALS?!?!? GO HOME AND TAKE YOUR MARBLES WITH YOU!
HONEST TO ALLAH ALMIGHTY...THESE PEOPLE BEHAVE LIKE FREAKIN TWO YEAR OLDS...Oooooo I just got a new gun...who can I shoot...who can I shoot?

GET A GRIP YOU FREAKS! I say nuke 'em all !!!!!
Whew!

Originally Posted by Par77

Are the Iranians Out for Revenge?
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 By ROBERT BAER

The speed and level of chaos in Iraq is picking up fast. An apocalyptic cult came uncomfortably close to taking Najaf, one of Shi'a Islam's most holy cities, and murdering Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Sistani is the neo-cons' favorite quietist Shi'a cleric, the man who was supposed to keep Iraq's Shi'a in line while we went about nation building. And then, on Sunday, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad told the New York Times that Iran is in Iraq to stay, whether the Bush Administration likes it or not.

Just when you thought you knew the players in the war, a cult tries to take over the holy city of Najaf

And that's not the worst of it. American forces still hold five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Arrested by American forces in Erbil on Jan. 11, the five are accused by the Administration of helping the Iraqi opposition kill Americans.

I've written here before that the IRGC has a long history of calculated violence against its enemies, particularly the United States. The Administration's accusations are plausible. But at the same time the U.S. needs to remember what a serious spoiler the IRGC can be when provoked.

In July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and assassinations against the U.S. and the West. The Iranian charge was a senior IRGC officer, and the IRGC had no intention of letting his kidnapping go unanswered. The IRGC campaign lasted for more than 10 years and dragged the U.S. into Iran-contra and the arms-for-hostages deal that nearly brought down the Reagan Administration.

Some Iraqis speculate that the IRGC has already started a campaign of revenge with the killing of five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20, nine days after the arrest of the IRGC members in Erbil. As the logic of the rumor goes, five American soldiers were killed for five Iranians taken; Karbala was an IRGC message to release its colleagues — or else.

The speculation that Karbala was an IRGC operation may have as much to do with Iraqis' respect for IRGC capacity for revenge as it does with the truth. Nevertheless, we should count on the IRGC gearing up for a fight. And we shouldn't underestimate its capacities. Aside from arming the opposition, the IRGC is capable of doing serious damage to our logistics lines. I called up an American contractor in Baghdad who runs convoys from Kuwait every day and asked him just how much damage. "Let me put it this way," he said. "In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar." He said his convoys now are forced to pay a 40% surcharge to Shi'a militias and Iraqi police in the south, many of whom are affiliated with IRGC.

Mindful of the spreading chaos in Iraq, President Bush has promised not to take the war into Iran. But it won't matter to the IRGC. There is nothing the IRGC likes better than to fight a proxy war in another country.

Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.

Gee Whiz, just when a person thinks it can't get any worse. Stop the bus I want off. Hurry up Iraq and Reval....this is driving me nuts. Shoot em' up, bang, bang. Iran your gonna lose so get out of Dodge.

Gloribee

The Supreme Committee for the implementation of Article 100th and 40th to the 12th attended by Dr Hashim Al-Shebli Chairman of the Committee and representatives of the territory Cordstan Dr. Mohammed Ihsan, Nermin Othman, and members of the Committee. During the meeting, which was complementary to yesterday's meeting and for the emphasis on the mechanism of action and offices Karagook Henkal and Khanaqin
Managers were invited three offices who in turn reports on the work of their offices to gather information on the number of evacuees. In order to activate the work of the Commission was the demand of the truth and a property dispute expedite their work, was also attended by managers of the Civil Status and real estate, agriculture, municipal and municipalities around Kirkuk in order to speed up the work Madiriathm, who provided information and a number of documents of the Commission, which decided to conduct the necessary follow-up to those documents, as happened in the meeting discussed a mechanism for the return of the Arabs who have been brought to the areas withheld by the Arabization policy so that the Committee at the next meeting to take a decision on the return

All Iraq - Ishtar Ahmed

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Top News- Iran Suspected in Attack on U.S. Soldiers - AOL NewsIran Suspected in Attack on U.S. Soldiers
Militants Killed Five After Infiltrating Iraqi Compound
By JAMES GLANZ and MARK MAZZETTI
The New York Times
BAGHDAD (Jan. 31) — Investigators say they believe that attackers who used American-style uniforms and weapons to infiltrate a secure compound and kill five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20 may have been trained and financed by Iranian agents, according to American and Iraqi officials knowledgeable about the inquiry.


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The officials said the sophistication of the attack astonished investigators, who doubt that Iraqis could have carried it out on their own — one reason a connection to Iran is being closely examined. Officials cautioned that no firm conclusions had been drawn and did not reveal any direct evidence of a connection.

A senior Iraqi official said the attackers had carried forged American identity cards and American-style M-4 rifles and had thrown stun grenades of a kind used only by American forces here.

Tying Iran to the deadly attack could be helpful to the Bush administration, which has been engaged in an escalating war of words with Iran.

One American soldier was killed during the initial attack and four more were abducted and killed shortly afterward as the police pursued the sport utility vehicles used in the attack.


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The attack was focused on a meeting at a joint security station, where American and Iraqi forces mesh their efforts in the new security plan.

An Iraqi knowledgeable about the investigation said four suspects had been detained and questioned. Based on those interviews, investigators have concluded that as they fled Karbala with the abducted Americans, the attackers used advanced devices to monitor police communications and avoid the roads where the police were searching.

The suspects have also told investigators that “a religious group in Najaf” was involved in the operation, the Iraqi said, in a clear reference to the Mahdi Army, the militia controlled by the breakaway Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr. If that information holds up, it would dovetail with assertions by several Iraqi officials that Iran is financing and training a small number of splinter groups from the Mahdi Army to carry out special operations and assassinations.

“I hear that there are a number of commando and assassination squads that are disconnected and controlled directly by Iran,” the senior Iraqi official said, citing information directly from the prime minister’s office. “They have supplied JAM and others with significant weaponry and training,” he said using shorthand for the group, from its name in Arabic, Jaish al Mahdi.

Another senior Iraqi official said that military actions by the United States against JAM essentially pushed it toward Iran.

“During the conflicts between the Mahdi Army and the United States, Iran was the only side that supported JAM,” the official said. “And they told them, ‘Hey, we are here to help you and we are here to support you, and we will not let you down.’ ”

The Karbala operation involved 9 to 12 armed militants and at least five sport utility vehicles, the American military has said. The initial attack on the compound killed one American soldier and damaged three Humvees, the military said.

But what has caught the attention of investigators is the way the convoy of S.U.V.’s was able to give the impression that it was American and slip through Iraqi checkpoints unchallenged. An American military official said all possibilities were being explored, with the focus on whom the United States can trust, even among senior Iraqi officials, in the Karbala area.

“We’ve got to be very careful as to who we define as our allies, and who we trust and who we don’t,” the military official said. “Was the governor involved? Were the Iraqi police that were on guard complicit or just incompetent?”

The unusual nature of the attack has made it a major topic of discussion in the upper echelons of the Iraqi government. It has spawned bizarre theories including the idea that a Western mercenary group was somehow involved.

Two American officials in Washington confirmed that American military investigators were looking into the possibility of Iranian involvement in the Karbala attack. One of those officials said the working assumption by the investigators was that the operation had been carried out by a splinter group of the Mahdi Army.

The second official said the operation could be seen as retribution for three recent American raids in which Iranians suspected of carrying out attacks on American and Iraqi forces were detained. On Sunday, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq conceded that two Iranians detained in Baghdad last month were security officials, but said that they were making legitimate contacts with Iraqi government officials.


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2007-01-31 09:56:59

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations.

"We have told the Iranians and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you, please solve your problems outside Iraq,' " Nuri al-Maliki told CNN.

"We will not accept Iran to use Iraq to attack the American forces," al-Maliki said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with CNN. (Read more of al-Maliki interview)

"We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria," he added.

Asked about the role of Iran in Iraq, al-Maliki said he was confident that Iranian influence was behind attacks on U.S. forces. "It exists, and I assure you it exists," he said.

Iranian-U.S. tensions have been ratcheted up recently, with two U.S. officials theorizing about the possibility that Iran was involved in a January 20 attack that killed five U.S. soldiers.

Two officials from separate U.S. government agencies said Tuesday the Pentagon is investigating whether the attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives.

"People are looking at it seriously," one of the officials said, adding that the Iranian connection was a leading theory in the investigation.

The second official said: "We believe it's possible the executors of the attack were Iranian or Iranian-trained."

The five soldiers were abducted and killed in the sophisticated attack by men wearing American-style uniforms, according to U.S. military reports. (Watch how attackers got into the compound Video)

Both officials stressed the Iranian-involvement theory is only a preliminary view, and there is no conclusion. They agreed this possibility is under consideration because of the sophistication of the attack and the level of coordination.

"This was beyond what we have seen militias or foreign fighters do," the second official said.

Al-Maliki said the Americans were basing their hunches about Iranian activities in Iraq on intelligence they've amassed.

Some Iraqis speculate that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out the attack in retaliation for the January 11 capture by U.S. forces of five of its members in Irbil, according to a Time.com article published Tuesday. (Read the articleexternal link)

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has a reputation for taking harsh and unrelenting revenge on its enemies, the Time.com article says. The five Iranians remain in U.S. custody.

Suggestions of Iranian involvement in the Karbala attack are part of a larger confrontation between Iran and the United States.

Washington accuses Tehran of fomenting terror attacks worldwide and pursuing a nuclear program that could lead to the development of weaponry. Iran has denied those assertions.

The Bush administration has authorized U.S. forces to kill or capture Iranian agents plotting attacks in Iraq, a U.S. national security official said last week. The policy, approved by President Bush in the last couple of months, is aimed at Iranian agents planning attacks with Iraqi militiamen, the official said.

Bush has said that he has no problem with the policy, if it protects U.S. soldiers. (Full story)

"If Iran escalates its military actions in Iraq to the detriment of our troops and/or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly," Bush said Monday on National Public Radio.

A top U.S. general in Iraq said Tuesday that Iran is supplying Iraqi militias with weapons, including Katyusha rockets and rocket-propelled grenades, USA Today reported.

Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno told the newspaper that the military could trace some weapons back to Iran by their serial numbers.

The Associated Press reported last week that a second U.S. aircraft carrier is on its way to the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. officials. The officials told the AP that the USS John C. Stennis, due to arrive in Mideast waters within weeks, is intended as a warning to Iran.

IN OTHER WORDS "HEY IRAN, GET THE HECK OUT OF OUR COUNTRY"
GEEEEZZZZZ!

Details Notes
Number of banks 12 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1292 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ 1290 -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 92.165.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) 830.000
Total offers for buying (US $) 92.165.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) 830.000 -----


Gooooooooooooood Morning RolClub

The last auction was on Monday the 29th. I was under the impression that they were not going to hold another auction until Thursady the 1st of Feb. Oh well, here are the numbers for Jan 31st, 2007

"The More They Take, The More We Make".


1. A 0 point change in the dinar today. Was 1292, now 1292

2. A (net) worth of dinars, IQD - 118,004,820,000 pulled out of circulation today, 1/31/07

3. 12 banks participating today

4. 72nd auction since the beginning of CBI's reval plan

5. 123 days into the CBI's reval plan.

6. 4,365,582,080,000 dinars pulled from circulation !!

7. 1,070,700,000 Dinars back into circulation today !!

8. 185 dinar change since Oct 1st (baseline was 1477) 12.525% increase in value of the dinar since beginning of reval plan (Approximatly Oct 1st).

9. 0 point reduction in the rate so far this week. Was at 1292 at the end of last week, 1292 this week.

10. 33 point drop so far in the month of Jan. Ended at 1325 in Dec, now stands at 1292. In January we saw a 2.49% drop in the rate.

Originally Posted by *CLEO*

The Associated Press reported last week that a second U.S. aircraft carrier is on its way to the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. officials. The officials told the AP that the USS John C. Stennis, due to arrive in Mideast waters within weeks, is intended as a warning to Iran.

Warnings shwarnings. Smack'em hard so they take notice. The only thing these people understand and respect is force.