Thread: Iraq/Dinar News Up until April 5th 5PM CTZ.

Originally Posted by RfxLady

As a doctor, I would be interested if you found more articles - boy would an rv be helpful in the area of health for the Iraqis.

If you go to the link, it provides the email and phone number of this doctor. Maybe he can provide you with further info.

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DayDream

Originally Posted by DayDream

If you go to the link, it provides the email and phone number of this doctor. Maybe he can provide you with further info.

Cheers!
DayDream

Thanks, I will do that.

Originally Posted by ordinaryseawoman

aliraqi – global Iraqi Community

I have been looking for this Forum for a week now. Forgot where I seen it before in one of your post.

BTW, This is is the Iraq/Dinar Latest News Thread. Anything on that Topic will not get the Dinar Police on you. I Died when I read that. If you or anyone has another Topic that they would like to Start, Please feel free to Begin a New Thread for it. Thanks. Dont be shy to Start New Topic Threads about anything in Iraq. This is the Iraq Info part of Rolclub. I for one have always thought that any kind of info reguarding Iraq was News.

Originally Posted by Adster

Iraqi insurgency groups declare intention to drop arms - Talabani - 3/31

Iraqi insurgency groups declare intention to drop arms -- president BAGHDAD, March 31 (KUNA) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani affirmed on Saturday that the leadership was holding continuous contacts with armed groups in a bid to persuade them join the national conciliation political process and renounce usage of arms.
Talabani, speaking at a ceremony marking credentials-delivery of the newly-named American Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and the new Japanese ambassador, affirmed that some of the armed groups expressed desire to join the process of normalization in the country.
"Some organizations that consider themselves as part of the national resistance have contacted us and expressed readiness to drop the arms and join the political process and we have welcomed them," Talabani said.
He praised resolutions of the recently-held Arab summit concerning Iraq, namely the decisions that denounce terrorism, call for setting debts and backing the national conciliation process.
The Arab summit, concerning Iraq, was successfull and all Iraqi proposals and demands were me -- unanimously, the president said.
On status of the (Shiite) Mahdi militia, Talabani said that he assured Crocker that the group was no longer significantly effective and that the top leadership has recently received no new complaints about activities of this militia from local Sunni quarters.
The government is bent on clamping down on terrorism and cooperating with the Multi-National Forces, he said.
He praised stand of Sunni tribes, namely Al-Zuwbaa' tribe, in confronting armed terrorists and elements of Al-Qaeda organization, west of the Iraqi capital.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesP...45&Language=en

Hopfully Security will come so Stabillity can Prevail soon.

Originally Posted by DayDream

At least some Iraqi's aren't sitting around twiddling their thumbs!

Effective treatment of cancer and Diabetes, hypertension and colon and stomach ulcer

The name of God the Merciful
Mustafa Abdul Sattar Friday

To all good people of the Iraqis and the Arab and Muslim worlds
An effective remedy for cancer patients and the pressure and diabetes, and other diseases
Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings
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DayDream

God Bless the Iraqis for they are indeed free as they so deserve to be.
They can speak out about a Herbal treatment for ill health with out serious consequences like jail. God provided and the Iraqis have validated their findings. I hope that we will one day have this kind of freedom in the United States. I am certain that their research is valid. Thank God it is not suppressed. I am so proud of you Iraq. Another great sign tonight that they may speak out.

If posted earlier, I appologize.

2007-03-29

United States Helps Reopen Iraqi Industrial Facilities

Goal is to reconnect Iraq with foreign markets, U.S. official says

Washington -- The U.S. Department of Defense, in partnership with the Iraqi government, is working to reopen idle Iraqi industrial facilities and connect them to international markets to create jobs and revitalize the country’s economy, says a senior Defense official.

“What we see among the business community there and among the population is the desire to engage in economic activity, to have normalcy restored, to have employment and benefits that accrue from employment,” Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Paul Brinkley said at a Pentagon briefing March 28.

Under the Defense Department’s initiative, teams of experts have identified some 200 idle Iraqi factories, 140 of which the United States believes are in good shape and could be put back into production. Since November 2006, the teams more closely surveyed 56 of those plants and identified ways of restarting them, Brinkley said.

Since December 2006, the Defense Department also has been sending to Iraq groups of business leaders from the United States and other countries to let them learn about investment opportunities and encourage them to buy goods from Iraqi producers.

“If the Iraqis can make a good that you’re acquiring today on the international market and it can be shipped, we’re asking you to buy it. We’re asking you to consider sourcing [your] material from Iraq,” Brinkley said. He added that the department wants to offer Iraqi producers an opportunity to engage “in a natural process of competing for international business.”

The Defense Department initiative helped open a large, state-of-the-art textile factory in Najaf, whose products will hit the U.S. market before the end of 2007, he said. Two other recently reopened plants are a ceramics factory in Ramadi and an automotive factory near Baghdad, according to Brinkley.

In addition, the department is trying to create a call center in Kurdistan to provide customer services throughout Iraq in several languages spoken in the country.

The estimated cost of restarting the 56 surveyed factories will be around $50 million, Brinkley said, because most of them need only a small amount of investment and technical upgrading. The money will come in the form of loans from the Iraqi Finance Ministry, he said.

Brinkley also said that under the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was established in 2003 as a transitional Iraqi government and dissolved in June 2004, official policy opposed the revitalization of state-owned plants to encourage the emergence of the free market. This approach was modeled on the “shock therapy” after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, where many state-owned industries quickly were shut down or privatized.

Though the emergence of a free market and private sector is still a consensus goal in Iraq, a more gradual approach to a transition from the state-controlled economy is gaining support, he said.

“We have this industrial base that we can reinvigorate and restore employment to a sizable number of people … and then begin a transition to a private-sector state,” Brinkley said.

He added he believes that by the end of 2007 some of the restarted factories will begin to privatize and said that there already are companies interested in entering into joint ventures with them.

But to attract private investors, one needs “a skilled work force, an industrial base of some sort, and access to demand,” Brinkley said.

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Nice Article Hkp.

Excellent post Hkp!! Good news everywhere. Apparently a lovely Iraqi woman just won the middle east version of American Idol. Some have scorned this info but just think of it!! M E version of AMERICAN Idol!! They all have sat dishes over there it seems. A step up in the national PRIDE!! I have a question here-is it true that April 1st is Allah's bithday!! Lots of good news.

Al-Maliki adviser for Economic Affairs : the law of oil and gas will provide a reconstruction budget of 200 billion dollars during the nine years

Al-Maliki adviser for Economic Affairs : the law of oil and gas will provide a reconstruction budget of 200 billion dollars during the nine years
D occur. Kamal visual Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister in a seminar on the law of oil and economic challenges organized by the Association of Muslim youth in London, Mr. Basri started his lecture about the challenges facing the Iraqi economy, foremost of which is : security side, the adoption of the Iraqi economy, the oil sector, the weakness of state institutions, and the absence of agricultural production, foreign debt, unemployment, the collapse of infrastructure, and the absence of a clear economic policy, and the tremendous waste in support of the State of the card supply and oil derivatives, and disguised unemployment and others disguised account for about 20 % currently.
And Mr. Alloza Adviser to the President that the volume of state spending of 50 trillion dinars, while state revenues of approximately 45 trillion Iraqi dinars, and that the State has the budget deficit at about 5 trillion dinars, and added that a large part of the deficit is due to extravagance by the State in support of derivatives oil and the ration card and disguised unemployment.
The d. Kamal Basri, said the state was paying out in support of oil derivatives, including nearly 12 trillion dinars, and added that 20 of those derivatives backed by the State, escaping to neighboring countries, either ration card seller and costs the state budget , including nearly 4 trillion dinars, in addition to supporting the state's hidden unemployment and widespread in factories in the State, including nearly 840 million dollars, and the State in support of travel to the pilgrimage of $ 45 million.
He added. Kamal that the total amount of government support, has become a big burden on the state budget and in economic growth, as well as to stop Iraq's debt, estimated 190 billion dollars, which required the Paris Club to settle the debt of Iraq to stop supporting the state, so that dropping 80% of Iraq's debt. He added that a large proportion of those debts, returning to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and refuses to settle for fear of the political process in Iraq.
The Adviser to the Prime Minister for Economic Affairs that there is a plan to compensate currency, material ration card with a competitive market for materials supply in the Iraqi market, and that the plan will be implemented in the beginning, in the three governorates of Dahuk, Samawah, Hillah, and the amount of compensation will share 10 per person.
It then spoke d. Basri on the law of oil and gas as defined by law : that the development and increasing production while ensuring social justice for oil imports, and added that the structural law consists of the Ministry of Oil, and the Federal Council and the provinces, and these three departments under the control of the Council of Ministers.
Adviser to the Prime Minister said that the law gives the state central planning, and the oil policy of the country and left to the regions of freedom and the application of those plans The policies, and d continued. Basri, said Iraq needed to 200 billion dollars for the reconstruction of the country, this amount can be provided only after 20 years if the National Oil Company was able to maintain production of three million barrels per day
D and continued. Basri, said the oil and gas if it is applied well within a well-thought-out strategy would enable the state to develop oil production and therefore it can save the reconstruction of Iraq during the period of a maximum of nine years

marsadiraq.com

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Sunnis try to blast Al-Qaeda out of IraqHala Jaber and Ali RifatAmman
Sunni insurgent groups that were previously allied with Al-Qaeda in Iraq have turned against it, killing its leaders, attacking its supporters and vowing to drive it out of the country.

At least two Al-Qaeda commanders have been killed by Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad. Others have been forced to flee after insurgents passed their details to US and Iraqi commanders. Fierce fighting has broken out between insurgent groups and Al-Qaeda in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.

Until the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in a US airstrike last summer, the groups cooperated with it in their bloody struggle with the coalition forces. But the insurgents have come to believe that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is destabilising the country by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, often with truck bombs.

Some senior Sunni insurgents believe that Al-Qaeda in Iraq shares the agenda of Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias to plunge the country into ever more violent sectarian conflict rather than concentrating on the fight against the US-led coalition.

Late last year Salam al-Zubaie, Iraq’s deputy prime minister, began secret talks with the Sunni groups with the aim of coaxing them away from Al-Qaeda. He held meetings with commanders of groups including the 20th Revolutionary Brigade, the general command of the Iraqi armed forces, the Islamic Army of Iraq, the Ba’ath party and the Salah al-Deen al-Ayyubi Brigade.

He encouraged them to form a unified Sunni alliance that could fight Al-Qaeda and attack Iranian influence. They proved receptive to his arguments.

“Both Al-Qaeda and Iran seem to have an identical agenda to try to widen the sectarian split between Sunnis and Shi’ites, maintaining instability,” Abu Baker, a commander in the 20th Revolutionary Brigade, told The Sunday Times last week. “They stepped up their attacks on innocent Iraqi people and we could not accept that.”

A senior commander in the Islamic Army said Zubaie had promised not only to help to unify the Sunni groups but also to provide them with financial and logistical support to stop Iranian infiltration.

The insurgents demanded assurances from the government that they would not be arrested or attacked by the security forces. They also asked for promises that they could eventually join the security forces.

There was one sticking point. “We insisted that our fight with the occupying forces would continue as they are to blame for our current situation,” the Islamic Army commander claimed.

“Zubaie’s response was that first we had to get rid of Al-Qaeda and turn ourselves into a strong legal force to be reckoned with. Then we’d be in a position to negotiate with the occupying forces and demand their withdrawal. This was something we could not accept.”

Within weeks, however, the insurgent groups set out to “cleanse” parts of Baghdad of Al-Qaeda influence. Shaker Zuwaini, an Al-Qaeda emir, was assassinated by the 20th Revolutionary Brigade in the Adel district of Baghdad. The emir of the Amiriya district was also killed and another commander was chased away from the Khadra district.

Abu Omar, leader of a Ba’ath insurgent group and military commander in Amouriya, said: “Al-Qaeda have turned into a bunch of criminals and gangsters up to their eyes in kidnapping and robberies. We resolved to put an end to them.”

The drive against Al-Qaeda has continued despite an attempt to assassinate Zubaie last month. He was seriously injured by a suicide bomb. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the outgoing US ambassador, said the United States had also held talks with Sunni insurgents “to explore ways to collaborate in fighting the terrorists”.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has carried out many of the most brutal attacks on civilians, is made up largely of foreign fighters. Although it shares a name with Osama Bin Laden’s group, it is unclear how closely the two are linked.

General David Petraeus, the US commander, blamed Al-Qaeda for provoking carnage in Tal Afar, in northwestern Iraq, with a truck bomb that killed 152. Shi’ite militants and police then cold-bloodedly executed as many as 70 Sunnis.

- The Hollywood star Alec Baldwin was so moved by the story of a soldier’s last day with her family before training to serve in Iraq that he will help to pay for her university education after she leaves the forces. He tracked down the mother of Resha Kane, 18, in New Mexico to offer his help.