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

I wonder what repercussions this will cause.

Report: US decides not to free five Iranian captured in Iraq

The Bush administration has decided not to free five Iranians captured in Iraq, a newspaper has reported. According to The Washington Post, after intense internal debate, the Bush administration had decided to keep the Iranians in custody and make them go through a periodic six-month review process used for the other 250 foreign detainees held in Iraq.

The next review is not expected until July, the newspaper quoted U.S. officials as saying.

Washington has been claiming the five, seized in a Jan. 11 raid by American troops in the Kurdish city of Arbil, are linked with Iranian Revolutionary Guard networks involved in providing explosive devices used to attack American forces in Iraq. Iran says they are diplomats and has demanded their release.

The Post reported Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had wanted to release the men because she judged them no longer useful but went along with the decision to retain them in custody that was strongly supported by Vice President Dick Cheney.

albawaba.com middle east news information::Report: US decides not to free five Iranian captured in Iraq

Lewscrew

Originally Posted by lewscrew

Strange, I've never been able to copy & paste a PDF File in the past but now all of the sudden I can so just incase you want to see the agenda...here it is.


REBUILD IRAQ 2007 16 – 19 APRIL
EXPO JORDAN & IEDC
Under the Patronage of H. E. Eng. Hosni Abu Gahida Minister of Public works & Housing – Jordan
&
H.E. Dr. Bayan Dizzaai
Minister of Construction & Housing – Republic of Iraq
"New Horizons for Rebuilding Iraq Conference"
Holiday Inn Hotel – Amman - Jordan
17, 18 April 2006
Conference Program
First Day17/04/2007
09.00
Inauguration and Organizers' Speech
Eissa Al Ziyadat – EXPO JORDAN
Raid Rahmani – IEDC
09.15
Speech of H. E. Mr. Hosni Abu Ghaida, the Jordanian Minister of Public Works & Housing
09.30
Speech of H. E. Mrs. Bayan Dizzaai, the Iraqi Minister of Construction & Housing
09.45
Golden Sponsor speech
MTC Atheer, The Mobile Telecommunications of Iraq
Mr. Ali Al Dahwi/CEO
10.00
Golden Sponsor Speech
Al-Daleel Consulting & Business Development
Mr. Raid Rahmani/CEO & Chairman
10.
Inter Globe Information & Telecommunications Systems
Mr. Ali Habib/ Managing Director
Telecommunications; Future Strategies in Iraq based on analyzing lessons learned
10.30
Break
11.00
Egyptian Construction Export Council
ECEC
Mr. Nihad Ragab/Chairman
11.20
Shokran Khader
Managing Director – Al Mansour Co.
Ministry Of Construction & Housing
11.40
Dr. Ikram Abd Al Aziz
Managing Director – Housing Fund
Ministry Of Construction & Housing
12.00
Mr. Ziad Ibrahim
Managing Director – Hamourabi Co.
Ministry Of Construction & Housing
12.20
Miss Ahlam Saied
Managing Director Asst – Public Authority For Building
Ministry Of Construction & Housing
12.40
Basra Reconstruction Council
Reconstruction plans for Basra Governorate
13.00
Baghdad Mayoralty
Reconstruction plans for Baghdad city
13.20
Discussion, Questions & Answers
14.00
Lunch


REBUILD IRAQ 2007 16 – 19 APRIL
EXPO JORDAN & IEDC
Second Day
18/04/07
09.30
Speech of Kurdistan Region Board of Investment,
"Investment Law in Kurdistan Region - Iraq"
9.50
Ministry of Oil – Iraq
The new law of investment in Oil & Gas
10.10
Speech of the Saudi Fund for Development – Saudi Exports Program entitled "Introducing
the Program's Services and Facilitations to Exporters and Importers"
by the Marketing Manager
Mr. Saleh Bin Abdalla Al Addad.
10.30
Iraqi Company for Loan Guarantee
Mr. Wadea Handhal
The Roll of the Financial Sector in Rebuilding Iraq
10.50
Discussion, Questions & Answers
11.00
Break
11.30
Empire Holding
Mr. Shwan Al-Mulla/Founder
Success Story of Iraqi Investor in Iraq
11.45
The Eastern Investment Group Holding
Dr. Majid Al-Sa’idi/Chairman
Iraqi Investors Roll in Rebuilding Iraq
12.00
Mr. Ahmed Al Rabeie’ / Managing Director Asst
Ministry of Electricity – Iraq
12.20
Ministry of Water Resources – Iraq
12.40
Ministry of Industry - Iraq
13.00
Ministry of Culture – Iraq
13.20
Jordan Petroleum Refinery
13.40
Discussion, Questions & Answers
14.00
Lunch

http://www.rebuild-iraq2007.com/Program%202007%20.pdf

Lewscrew

keep refering to it as law, as if it were completed.

SGS: My gut feeling says it has been passed, I remember reading an article in the last to days where Kurdistan said they would not block the law(it was an old article). In additional you think when they were discussing the law it was in the news everyday and now we have since had no reports of it even being discussed in parliament of late! What do you think?

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

keep refering to it as law, as if it were completed.

Sus . . . I wasn't gonna open that can of worms . . .

But as you've brought up the subject . . . Our contacts have only spoken about it lately . . . as if it *HAS* been passed . . . and only waiting to be announced . . .


Best to all . . . RR . . .

Iraq : Almshahadani keeps calling parliamentarians to save Iraq

Tighten security measures in the House
Baghdad-Sabah
Chairman of the House of Representatives, Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani members of Parliament uniting to save Iraq accused spokesman Accord Front firmly on the internal and external undermine stability in Iraq.
He said Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani in a speech during his chairing of the meeting yesterday : that the parliamentary blocs uniting for Iraq yearn for unity of all stripes.
He pointed out that Almshahadani terrorism targeting Iraq with all its components and north to south, he said, "We have faith Iraq free of sectarianism."
He pointed out that the Council Almshahadani lost Shahid MP Mohamed Awad from the list of the Iraqi front for national dialogue, saying "if we lose MP Awad Let us not lose Iraq."
It was the House of Representatives was held yesterday its 15th Legislative Chapter III, which included voting on the proposal to amend the law was disbanded coalition authority No. 63 of 2004 and the first reading of the draft law on the confiscation and seizure of movable and immovable property belonging to the former Iraqi regime and the draft law of the First Amendment Order No. 10 for 2004.
For his part, MP Salim Abdullah Al-Jabouri, spokesman for the Accord Front of hidden internal and external working to undermine stability in Iraq.
The target in a press release distributed yesterday at the Palais des Congrès politicians to put national agenda far from Plandkat sects and creeds.
In relation to the House of Representatives criticized the media for the terrorist bombing that long-Building Conference Palace demanding it punctuality in the transfer of information.
A statement issued by the House of Representatives a copy of which was received yesterday morning that the terrorist incident resulted in the martyrdom of deputy Iraqi front for national dialogue - Mohamed Awad-and the number of the wounded were slightly injured.
The statement indicated that the House did not sign any contracts since its formation in the 4-22-2006 with a security company to protect the premises, the Conference Palace said that the protection of the still so far under the auspices of the Iraqi security forces.
The entrances to the Palais des Congrès, the Parliament yesterday, Saturday, strict security procedures differ from the previous one after the bombing incident, where the members of the Iraqi army searched entrants to the building of the Palais des Congrès, the first checkpoint unlike the past when this was not the point exist, then followed another point joint composed of two Iraqis and other foreign forces.
The process of inspection accuracy of the sexes through the machine to detect explosives.
There is a checkpoint other joint task check identities (Albajat), which is not a modern terms had existed before, and the other for baggage inspections.
Then followed this point another checkpoint with a sonar exist for the detection of explosives and after this point was to develop other joint checkpoint near the entrance of the parliament where exactly the same accuracy in the process of inspection and check identities.

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Iraq : the allocation of (10) billion dollars to finance the projects of young
Sumaida'ie : the government was trying to provide job opportunities for the unemployed in order to remove them from crime syndicates

Baghdad-up morning
A high-level government on the allocation of the amount of ten billion dollars to finance the projects geared to young people, urging them not to join the gangs, violence because of unemployment in which they live.
He said Iraq's Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida'ie in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies last night : that Iraq was embroiling the general public in the status quo by the intervention of the United States in which the Iraqis feel grateful to him only that the withdrawal of American forces would lead to a disaster for the fledgling democracy.
Sumaida'ie and stressed the need for efforts to ensure that the increase in violence, saying that Iraq's progress towards democracy and stability is not just a battle waged Iraqis at home, but a confrontation between the forces beyond Iraq. The Sumaida'ie to the government to adopt plans to launch projects under its auspices over Iraq to revive the labor market in the country, with the allocation of 10 billion dollars to finance the projects directed towards young people. He said : that many of these young people to join gangs, political or criminal violence because of the lack of job opportunities and we want to find other options for them.

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Iraq : the establishment of an international fund to assist Iraqi refugees

Baghdad-Sabah
The Minister of Displaced Persons and Migrants Sultan Abdul Samad said that his ministry is seeking to establish an international fund to assist the Iraqi refugees at home and abroad through its participation in the International Conference on The humanitarian needs of Iraqi refugees to be held in Geneva next week. Sultan said in a press statement that Iraq will participate in the conference to be held on next Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva with the participation of many countries and international and non-governmental organizations under the auspices of the United Nations to highlight the plight of refugees and internally displaced Iraqis and knowledge of the humanitarian needs

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The first political : Barham Salih : the international road map for the new building of a modern state
He said that the Iraqi situation can be turned into a point of consensus rather than conflict

Baghdad-Sabah
Dr. Barham Salih Deputy Prime Minister that the draft of the International road map for the building of a new modern developed, pointing to the possibility of transforming the Iraqi situation from the point of regional differences to the situation of international unanimity through government support politically and economically.
Saleh said during a round table held with a number of advisers and media attended the "morning" that the International Covenant which would rein him early next month in Sharm el-Sheikh international support and participation is an unprecedented initiative by the Iraqi government in order to establish a new partnership with the international community according to the vision of Iraqi and mutual commitments under the dynamic frameworks national consensus and international support.
He said Dr. Saleh international support and national document for the reconstruction of Iraq and pave the way for him to reach the stage of self-sufficiency and prosperity in a society in which political system democratic, federal, pluralistic. The Deputy Prime Minister objectives of the international obligations of the achievements in Iraq politically and economically offset by a campaign led by donor countries at the Madrid conference in 2003 and sponsored by the United Nations followed a meeting in Abu Dhabi in September 2006 and the meeting of Kuwait in October 2006 in pursuit of a stable and prosperous Iraq.
رؤية مشتركةShared vision
Saleh pointed out that the application of a common vision document for the International Covenant between Iraq and the international community require renunciation of terrorism, extremism and dialogue and national reconciliation and the formation of security forces on the basis of professionalism and loyalty to the homeland and only strive to get rid of the terrorist threats, as well as to find an acceptable solution to the question of integration of the militias.
He continued that the International Covenant contains the Iraqi government's continuing social and economic reforms in the fields of basic management of public resources and good governance and strengthening state institutions and the reform of government support and private sector development and financial sector restructuring and improving security and stability and the establishment of a regulatory framework and institutional based on the rule of law.
Optimal investment environment
He alluded to the benefit that these reforms can be achieved only through interaction and cooperation with the international community, in this regard, pointing out the importance of activating the investment and the creation of an investment could be relied upon to fill the needs of Iraq in the medium term affirming government's efforts to activate negotiations with several regional countries to extinguish the debt of Iraq and by 100% pointing to the existence of positive gestures from Saudi Arabia to extinguish debt in the framework of joint coordination in this direction.
The Deputy Prime Minister, the possibility of turning Iraq from the point of contention between the donor countries to the state of unanimity in support of his political, security and economic initiative in light of the International Covenant.
It called on the media all need to support this project and to inform the public of the details of the contents and objectives of the document the international touches people's concerns that political, security and economic.
For his part, Habib Mohammed Hadi al-Sadr General Director of the Iraqi Media Network, who attended the round table : that the International is a real way to get out of the political and economic crisis and the departure from the bottleneck to the malls vistas towards prosperity and stability.
واHe added that this requires a dedicated media and organized to inform the public about the knives strategic outlook for the international document to be launched on the 3rd of next May in Sharm el-Sheikh.
He praised this important initiative, stressing the Iraqi Media Network Bnoaftha television and radio and print towards clarifying the dimensions of this project by hosting experts and spe******ts and the analysis of the reasons for the project and identify positive ramifications on the political level, security and economic programmed according to media plan in support of this promising project, which represents a glimmer of hope in the new sky scene Iraqi.
Will (Sabah) later full text of a document the International Covenant.

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The first political-Maliki : up to Baghdad after a successful Asian tour
Preparing to include other Riyadh and Cairo

Baghdad morning
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday to Baghdad after a successful Asian tour. He started his tour with a visit Mr. Maliki Japan and then the capital Seoul where he met with senior leadership of the two countries. According to observers that the Prime Minister Succeeded in gaining political and economic support for Iraq through the signing of the strategic task. It is hoped that Mr. al-Maliki begins on the 20th of this month another round include both Cairo and Riyadh, according to Egyptian sources, Mr. Al-Maliki will discuss with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, among other things the most important bilateral relations between the two countries and the political situation in the region and the two foreign ministers and the International Covenant which will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh in the third and the fourth of next month.

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The first political : the House of Representatives : Turkish threats invaded Kurdistan in violation of the sovereignty of the country
Territory Parliament described the dangerous escalation would create a political crisis in the region

Baghdad-Arbil-Sabah
Counting of the House of Representatives yesterday, Saturday, Turkish threats to the Kurdistan region as a clear violation of the sovereignty of the country and interference in its internal affairs, in what was described as the President of the Parliament of Kurdistan as a dangerous escalation of threats would create a political crisis in the region.
He said the House of Representatives in a statement received (Sabah) yesterday, a copy of which had recently been told by the Turkish leadership threaten to intervene in matters which are exclusively the internal affairs of Iraq and in particular the issue of Kirkuk, which placed Article (140) of the Iraqi Constitution, the Permanent just solution to it. The statement added that those threats and accepted conferences been held in Turkey on the Iraqi purely things are in clear violation of Iraq's sovereignty and a violation of the principles of the United Nations and international law on non-interference and mutual respect among nations. He pointed out that the council on behalf of his declared total rejection of such threats, and calls on the Turkish government to adopt the language of dialogue and understanding and respect for human good neighborliness between the two countries neighboring Muslims in particular that there is a common strategic interests between the two countries instead of the language of threats which are not in the interest of both parties. In the same regard, the President of the Kurdistan Parliament Adnan Mufti told the Chief of Staff of the Turkish army and his call to launch a military operation in the Kurdistan region as a serious threat to the security and territorial integrity, and is a dangerous escalation that would create a political crisis in the region and affect the good-neighborly relations of Kurdistan, which is keen to be based on mutual The news correspondent (morning) in Arbil on Mufti as saying : that the threats (Boyukanet) represents a dangerous escalation and we keep very seriously.

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