Thread: Iraq/Dinar News to April 19, 2007 10PM CST

Originally Posted by inquisitive1

IITB, will we be shaking to the left or shaken to the right. Dancers to the right of the decimal or dancers to the left of the decimal. Get the point?

I think southpaw is dancing to the left of home base. . !!!!!!

Sorry all, but I thought that this was the News thread and not the dancing thread.

Read backwards...this is news.."fact"

Originally Posted by inquisitive1

Read backwards...this is news.."fact"

No, it is not.

Me sources have told us, that the BOMB today. Was just a shake out bomb. To scare off the fence sitters! So not to worry, it's all part of the RV plan.......

= Emaar, UAE Cos Eyeing Multi-Billion-Dlr N Iraq Projects -Min
Thursday, Apr 12, 2007
By Spencer Swartz

OF DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

ERBIL, Iraq--Several companies from the United Arab Emirates, including giant property developer Emaar PropertiesEmaar Properties (EMAAR.AI), are looking at investing billions of dollars in energy, infrastructure and property projects in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Kurdish Trade Minister Muhammed Rauf said Thursday.

Four groups each with around 25 U.A.E. companies are scheduled to visit the Kurdish region starting at the end of April and progressing over the next two months to get a closer look at investment opportunities in the fast-growing area, Rauf told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview in the regional capital of Erbil.

"EmaarEmaar is one of the companies coming. We've had good discussions with them about (building) apartments, hotels and other properties. They will come and evaluate what we are offering," Rauf said.

"These companies have a lot of money and I know they are prepared to use it," he said. Rauf said his confidence about the investment prospects of U.A.E companies in Kurdish projects was based on discussions he had with several Emirate companies during a big investment conference last month in Dubai, the U.A.E's commercial hub.

Dubai-based EmaarEmaar, the biggest Arab property developer by market value, doesn't have operations in Iraq, a company official said.

The Kurdish region has become a magnet for foreign investment over the past three years, particularly in the oil and construction sectors, on a foundation of a relatively secure environment and plentiful and attractive investment opportunities. The Kurdish region's top trade partners are neighboring Turkey and Iran.

Since two separate suicide attacks in 2004, the Kurdish region, cocooned by strong protections from the Kurdish military, security and intelligence services, has been free of the kind of insurgents attacks that happen almost daily elsewhere in Iraq.

More than $15 billion has been plowed into the region by foreign companies over the past couple of years. The Kurdish-governed region, with around 5 million mostly Kurds, consist of the provinces of Erbil,, Suleimania and Duhok.

The region has enjoyed de facto independence since 1991 when the U.S. military created a no-fly zone over the area to prevent attacks by Saddam Hussein's forces.

The powers of the Kurdish Regional Government have widened considerably since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the 2005 passage of Iraq's post-war constitution, which bases Iraq's political configuration on a federalist system that gives the country's regions vastly more control over their own affairs relative to the days of Saddam's rule.

Rauf also said the Kurdish government was in discussions with foreign banks and consultants about the creation of a Kurdish Stock Exchange. "We have been taking steps toward this and we hope over the next year or two to have this established."

Nearly all Kurds favor formal independence but the KRG has so far resisted those calls in order not to provoke neighboring Turkey, Iran and Syria, all of whom have big Kurdish populations which, those nations fear, would rise up and try to break away to join an independent Kurdish state.

= Emaar, UAE Cos Eyeing Multi-Billion-Dlr N Iraq Projects -Min - Zawya.com | Middle East Business News

Banks and companies contributing calls for the receipt of profits



بغداد- الملف برسBaghdad-file Press



. the banks and companies contributing their work to expand their activities and strengthen its investments, where the official bank increases its capital and reaching the new rates, calling the shareholders for the receipt of certificates issued after this increase, as the company sent to the cities of Mosul Games shareholders of the citizens of Baghdad and the receipt of profits for the year 2005 in Mosul branch of the Bank of the White Palace, and called for the company Babel Film and television production Msahimha to attend the annual meeting to discuss agenda items of work, which aims to develop programs of the company and expand its activities

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.The Chairman of the Investment Committee in the Maysan Governorate today, Friday, the Board received bids from investors Iraqis and the Arabs and foreigners to invest in the sectors of oil, industrial and agricultural products and services.
وقال رئيس .", The committee chairman, Eng Taha guest News Agency (Voices of Iraq) alone "these offers came to the virtues of maintaining a stable security, and the presence of large outlets for investment will contribute to the establishment of the infrastructure of the province, which has suffered neglect for decades long."
."He added "there are presentations to the Board by the international and Arab companies in the field of oil investment and construction of electric power and the establishment of tourist cities, including international companies submitted bids value (12) billion dinars to establish vital projects for the reconstruction of the city ... Contribute to attract young energies and providing employment opportunities. "
."The guest that offers other "to invest oil fields, and construction of first-class hotels, and the establishment of housing complexes to reduce the population of the state of inflation experienced by the city ... In addition to setting up projects for communications equipment. "
."He continued, "I also made one of the oil companies invested oilfields west (Qurnah) to invest in oil wells and oil fields Maysan (Nur) east of the province."
."The Chairman of the Investment Committee in the governorate of Missan businessmen "who also made presentations and projects for the establishment of an electrical and housing complexes, rehabilitation lab turnkey construction in the province, and the investment of agricultural land, and take advantage of the marshes in the establishment of tourist resorts, and the development of projects of fish resources and development."
ولم.The source did not reveal the dates of receipt of the offers, or whether the Council had given its approval for some of them.
...The council of the province of Maysan, had called earlier in the Iraqi investors, Arab and foreign investors to invest in the province, particularly in the area of services and infrastructure, alluding to calm the security situation preservation ... .Compared to other Iraqi governorates.
.Located at a distance of Missan governorate (390 km) south of the capital, Baghdad.
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Minister of Planning : Cordstan starting point for the revival of the economy in Iraq

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.It was during the meeting, the objectives of the delegation's visit to Cordstan which lies in the preparation of a study on the territory Cordstan and privileges of the territory Cordstan especially in the economic field, and their ability to trade and economic competition.

من .For his part, Minister of Planning and he highlighted the role Alkord Alcordstaneh and political leadership in the new Iraq. The appropriate Cordstan to become the gateway to the rehabilitation of Iraq and is due to the stability of the political and security situation there
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Iraq parliament meets after bombing
13 April 2007 (Aljazeera)
The Iraqi parliament is holding a special session a day after eight people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the building's cafeteria.

Two parliamentarians were among the dead and 23 people were also injured in the most deadly attack ever carried out in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
Members of parliament are expected to condemn the attack in the meeting which began at about 11am (07:00 GMT) on Friday with the reading of passages from the Koran.

However, many MPs appeared to have failed to attend the session.

The explosion on Thursday took place in a canteen on the same floor as the 275-member national assembly's main debating chamber.

Several ministers had been eating lunch when the blast took place.

'Huge blast'

Muhammad Awadh, a member of parliament from the mainly Sunni National Dialogue Front, and Asif Hussein Muhammad, an MP from the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, were killed in the blast on the building's first floor.
"We were having a meeting when suddenly we heard a huge blast inside the restaurant. I saw a lot MPs wounded and bleeding," Fouad al-Massoum, the leader of the Kurdish parliamentary bloc, said.
Three female MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's parliamentary list were wounded in the explosion, along with three members of the United Iraq Alliance, the main Shia bloc in the parliament, Al Jazeera reported.
Taha al-Lihaibi, Salman al-Jumaili, Hahim al-Ta'i and two other MPs from the Iraqi Accord Front were injured, another member of parliament told al Jazeera.
US crackdown 'problematic'

Mahmoud Osman an Iraqi MP from the Kurdish Coalition, told Al Jazeera that the blast showed that there were problems with the US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad.
"It shows that the problem is not just a security one, but a political one."
Osman said he hoped there would be a full investigation into the explosion.
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, condemned the attack which she said was the work of "terrorists" opposed to recent US attempts to bring order to Iraq's capital.

George Bush, the US president, also condemned the attack.

"It reminds us, though, that there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people and a symbol of democracy," he said.
High security
Security officials at the parliament had used sniffer dogs earlier on Thursday as people entered the building - a measure rarely employed.
Attacks in the Green Zone are relatively rare although fighters regularly fire projectiles such as rockets and mortar rounds into the compound from outside its heavily guarded walls.
Access is closely restricted to visitors carrying picture identity cards while everyone entering is required to pass through multiple checkpoints and metal detectors