Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. Before Feb. 21, 2007

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

this isnt news but im beaming from ear to ear here reading these articles. justification in a convenient news article form, how delightful!!

ITS ABOUT TIME!!!! WOoTTTTT!!!!!!

I'm with ya SGS. The news posts on the last 3 pages here are as good as we've seen yet-and they're NEWS posts. The capper is CP's post #475. This is great stuff. Thanks to all the news hounds. Takes more than the occasional rumor for me to get fired up anymore, but this is the stuff we've all been looking for. We should see some very substantial confirmations in the next few days, IMO. Looking VERY good!

Originally Posted by PaulieThaGreat

Its a big help. Iraqis now a days enjoy buying Bird Houses to live in.

That gives me visions of people fighting to get in the bathroom...

Seriously, there have been many instances of these ridicuous allocations and sometimes you'll read them in the same article with something that does sound like a reasonable amount for it's purpose. I don't know if it means anything but my vague recollections do seem to form a pattern. It seems to me that, the allocations for things that are most directly for the people are the silly amounts. The government salaries, the major building projects, etc. are the sort of amounts you'd expect. The payouts to the people, the allocations for youth centres, etc. are these useless amounts that couldn't possibly accomplish their stated purpose.

Originally Posted by rvalreadydang

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Does this article further our speculation that the iraqi banks are becomming unwilling to sell their dinar to the CBI due to low of price (or posible rv)? It also makes sense that if the street price is better, then why would they sell to the CBI at less? thank You.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

THERE IS THE ANSWER TO WHETHER THEY HANDED OUT ANY MONEY OR NOT.

I wonder why they used the word "Secret"?

Originally Posted by Wm.Knowles

Hello everyone. I always knew that this guy was going to be influential in the development of Iraq since he was the architect of the iraqi invasion under Rumsfield. Now as President of the world bank, He is in an excellent spot to make things happen. Thank You.

Not to take away from your positive outlook on this but he was nominated as the WB President over 2 years ago, he's had plenty of time to move things along but we see no progress from that end. And the article clearly shows there are many things still in the way.

Let's hope and pray it's just a smokescreen or an anti piece.

Originally Posted by PaulieThaGreat

Its a big help. Iraqis now a days enjoy buying Bird Houses to live in.

Funny!

Originally Posted by PaulieThaGreat

Its a big help. Iraqis now a days enjoy buying Bird Houses to live in.

I don't think so not in the context of what it was meant to be. It was for displacement. Can not buy a piece of land, build then furnish it with $85. If it was for like say a equivalent to a tax return, Yes they could buy extra petrol or deposit for car or just go on a short trip to see relatives but not for displacement. Just wont work without an RV. Guess we will see soon enough.
Im1vestr

Voices of Iraq / Erbil
Posted by nakr2004 on Feb 18, 2007 - 05:58 PM
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Arbil-Survey
Half of Kurdistan inhabitants do not own the houses they occupy – survey
By Abdul-Hameed Zibari
Arbil, Feb 18, (VOI) – Half of the inhabitants of Iraqi Kurdistan region do not own the houses they occupy and now the region needs 300,000 housing units to cover the people's needs, a survey by the Special International Projects Center has found.

Arbil-Survey
Half of Kurdistan inhabitants do not own the houses they occupy – survey
By Abdul-Hameed Zibari
Arbil, Feb 18, (VOI) – Half of the inhabitants of Iraqi Kurdistan region do not own the houses they occupy and now the region needs 300,000 housing units to cover the people's needs, a survey by the Special International Projects Center has found.
"Eighty percent of the region's inhabitants' income go to rent payment while the per capita income ranges between 150 and 250 dollars per month, taking into account the gap in living standards between urban and rural Kurds," indicated a statement by the center, an Iraqi think-tank concerned with population, as received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Dr. Nabil al-Azari, an official in the center, blamed the current situation on the lack of a future housing plan and failure to depend on the private sector to deal with the problem.
"There are problems in cities' main designs, construction materials, absence of accurate population-related statistics and lack of demographic surveys as well as problems related essential services like water, power and roads," Azari told VOI.
He said these problems will never be solved except through new main designs with the help of specialized global firms and supervision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
International reports had estimated that Iraq would need millions of housing units to cover an acute shortage versus a growing demand nationwide

Arbil-Survey :: Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq

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Voices of Iraq / Baghdad
Posted by saleem on Feb 18, 2007 - 02:04 PM
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Iraq-Currency
Baghdad security plan affects auction trading session-trader
By Dergham Mohammed Ali
Baghdad, Feb 18, (VOI) – Dollar demand was lower on Sunday, the first trading session this week, in the central bank daily auction to $43.240 million compared to $70.165 million on Thursday leading an auction trader to partially blame the Baghdad security plan for that decline.


Iraq-Currency
Baghdad security plan affects auction trading session-trader
By Dergham Mohammed Ali
Baghdad, Feb 18, (VOI) – Dollar demand was lower on Sunday, the first trading session this week, in the central bank daily auction to $43.240 million compared to $70.165 million on Thursday leading an auction trader to partially blame the Baghdad security plan for that decline.
In its daily statement on Sunday the bank said it covered all bids which were $12.340 million in cash and $30.900 million in foreign transfers at an exchange rate of 1,285 dinars per dollar, unchanged from Thursday.
None of the twelve banks that participated in Sunday’s auction offered to sell dollars.
Ali al-Yaseri, a trader at the auction, told VOI "the decline in demand for dollar in the Central Bank auction is partially attributed to the low number of banks that participated in Sunday's session and partially to the new plan carried out to secure Baghdad."
Baghdad is under a large-scale military operation for the fourth day running with the objective of securing the Iraqi capital against bombings and sectarian violence.

Iraq-Currency :: Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq

This may be interesting...

60 Minutes on CBS

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007
THE OTHER IRAQ – Bob Simon reports from Kurdistan, a peaceful swath of Iraq where Americans are liked, no bombs go off and the Kurdish people yearn to be their own separate country. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer.


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