Thread: Iraq/Dinar News until April 26, 2007 Midnight cst.

Originally Posted by danny51

With the Reverend Monica I say AMEN!

writing any checks yet...

Originally Posted by DinarDevildog

that is good news, because everyone is worried about either Maliki or Shabbibi not being at the meeting coming up, but with this info stating that they wont be there is good news cause it goes to show that they dont have to be and everything will still move forward as agreed..so lets hope all still
goes as planned and we have a big RV sooner than later..

Looks like he will be there.

Launch of ICI is May 3rd
Iraq-UN, Politics, 4/23/2007
The UN-sponsored International Compact for Iraq (ICI) will be launched in Egypt early next month, Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said over the weekend.

According to a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) here Sunday said Ban said the compact seeks to consolidate peace in the war-torn Iraq and pursue political, economic and social development over the next five years.

Speaking to reporters in Bern, Switzerland, during a joint press conference with that country's President Micheline Calmy-Rey, Ban said he and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would attend the launch in Sharm el-Sheikh on May 3.

The launch marks the culmination of a preparatory process that began last July and was initiated by the Iraqi government to establish a new partnership with the international community.
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Dail...007042312.html

Kuwait balking at forgiving Iraq's $15 billion debt
The Associated PressPublished: April 24, 2007

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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is balking at forgiving Iraq's US$15 billion debt, a key goal for the United States as a regional summit on Iraq nears, aides to the Iraqi prime minister said as he made a key visit to the tiny oil-rich state.

Neighboring Saudi Arabia has agreed to write off a large portion of Iraq's debt to it. But some Kuwaitis, still bitter about Saddam Hussein's invasion of their country nearly two decades ago, think Iraq — which also boasts large oil resources — should support itself.

During his visit to this U.S. ally, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with David Satterfield, an adviser on Iraq to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who told al-Maliki that Kuwait has not made a final decision on debt relief, according to an aide to the Iraqi leader.

In an effort to help Iraq get on its feet financially, the Bush administration is spearheading a drive to get other countries to follow the U.S. lead and write off their shares of Iraq's debts, most of which stem from the 1980-1988 war between Iraq and Iran.

The Kuwaiti government has pledged to forgive 80 percent of Iraq's debt, but the decision is subject to parliamentary approval. Many lawmakers oppose the move, arguing that Iraq also is an oil-rich country and should pay back the money.

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"Nobody in Kuwait approves" of the debt write-off, said Nabil al-Fadhl, a columnist for the newspaper Al-Watan. "This is huge money, it will be at the expense of development of our country."

Kuwaitis sympathize with the plight of their neighbors but are still "sensitive" about Saddam's invasion of their country in 1990, al-Fadhl added.

Ties between Kuwait and Iraq have resumed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the fall of Saddam. But images of torture, executions and sabotaged oil wells during Iraq's seven-month occupation are difficult to erase from Kuwaitis' collective memory. A U.S.-led coalition liberated Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.

Al-Maliki told reporters Tuesday that he spoke about the debt with Kuwait's emir and prime minister, but said the matter was left up to the parliament.

"We hope that the National Assembly (parliament) will not stand against this huge debt (relief). The brothers in Kuwait are sympathetic, and God willing the National Assembly will be generous," al-Maliki said during a news conference.

Satterfield is on a regional tour to encourage financial support for Iraq from Arab governments, which have balked at showing strong support for al-Maliki's Shiite-led government.

Saudi Arabia's move to cancel 80 percent of the more than US$15 billion Iraq owes was the first sign of success in the U.S.-Iraqi campaign. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal confirmed the decision, and officials say final action is expected May 3-4 at the international conferences on Iraq to be held at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.

But in Kuwait, Foreign minister Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah said Tuesday it was up to the legislature to decide on debt relief, stressing that "Iraq's problem" was not its debts, but its security situation.

On Tuesday, al-Maliki also said that Kuwait plans to open an embassy in Iraq — its first diplomatic mission since Saddam's 1990 invasion.

"The Kuwaiti officials asked us for a safe place to open their embassy, and this will happen very soon," he said without elaborating.

In Cairo on Monday, al-Maliki said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised him that a new ambassador to Iraq would appointed. Egypt hasn't had an envoy in Iraq since July 2005 when diplomat Ihab al-Sherif was kidnapped and killed. Al-Qaida said it killed him because Egypt intended to install a full ambassador in Iraq.

Al-Maliki also said the Iraqi government is considering about inviting Arab security chiefs for a conference whether in Baghdad or another Arab city "to discuss terrorism and al-Qaida."

No other details were given, but the conference would be separate from the Sharm conferences, which will be attended by Iraq's neighbors as well as Bahrain and Egypt, and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain

Kuwait balking at forgiving Iraq's $15 billion debt - International Herald Tribune
cmon cmon make up yer minds!

British and Danish forces transferred today a third military base in Basra to Iraqi forces as part of their gradual troop withdrawal from the country. Al-Shuaiba logistics base -- which at its peak after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq housed 8,000 coalition troops -- was the scene of the formal lowering of the British and Danish flags and the raising of the Iraqi tricolour.

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IraqSlogger: Iraqis Take Over Another Basra Base

Baghdad Buzz
Contractor to Protect Iraqi Parliament
Unnamed Private Contractor Hired to Provide Iraqi Parliament Security
Posted 4 hr. 38 min. ago
By Kawther Abdul-Ameer
Baghdad, Apr. 24, (VOI) – The Iraqi Parliament debated in an ordinary session on Tuesday the parliament's security after the April 12 suicide bombing inside a cafeteria where the deputies were having lunch. Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said during the session that he signed a contract with a security company to protect the parliament, but did not reveal its nationality. The recent suicide bombing inside the Iraqi parliament in the heavily-fortified green zone had killed deputy Mohammed Awad from the Dr. Saleh al-Motlak's Sunni Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, which has 11 seats in parliament, and the injury of a number of staff in parliament.


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IraqSlogger: Contractor to Protect Iraqi Parliament

BATTLE ZONE
Bombs Explode Near Iranian Embassy
Attacks on Two Consecutive Days in Parking Lot Across Street From Compound
Posted 2 hr. 10 min. ago

For the second day in a row, explosions rocked a parking lot across the street from the Iranian embassy, near the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Though the near proximity of Iranian interests initially raised supicions regarding the target and motivation of the attack, a claim of responsibility issued by Ansal al-Sunna, a Sunni militant group, says the attack targeted "renegades who work at the Green Zone."

Green Zone employees, including those who work in Iraqi ministries, use the parking lot where the car bombs detonated.

On Monday, one car bomb exploded, killing one civilian and wounding four others. The explosion destroyed a couple of dozen cars parked in the lot, though the embassy--approximately 100 yards away--suffered no damage.

Tuesday saw a double car bombing hit the same parking lot, with two explosions detonating within minutes of each other shortly after 10 am.

AP reports that a police officer said the bombs detonated about 150 yards from the front of the embassy, wounding six civilians, but causing no damage to the embassy or its guards.

In its claim of responsibility statement posted on the Web, Ansar al-Sunna said: "Despite the failed and filthy security plan which is being carried by crusaders and renegades against Muslims in this country, your brother mujahedeen are determined to continue this long road."

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IraqSlogger: Bombs Explode Near Iranian Embassy

Originally Posted by crave681

writing any checks yet...

You soooo baaaad!

Originally Posted by readytogo

Now in the name of Jesus, I command the Iraqi dinar to be revaled at $3 or more right now!:woohoo:

Monica,
The voice of the Word!

And all the other voices say, AMEN!

MONICA, I COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH YOU AND SPEAK THE THE DINAR TO REVAL AT $3 OR MORE, NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!! AMEN!!!!! AMEN!!!

UN official embarks on trip to boost support for International Compact with Iraq
23 April 2007 – A senior United Nations official has embarked on a week of travel to Europe and the Middle East in a bid to build support for the International Compact with Iraq, a five-year plan for peace as well as political, economic and social development in the war-torn country.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Advisor, Ibrahim Gambari, is in the United Kingdom today, and will travel from there to Kuwait, Bulgaria and Belgium before returning to New York next week, according to a UN spokesperson. He is accompanied by the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq.

The Compact will be launched formally early next month in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, culminating a preparatory process that began last July and was initiated by the Iraqi Government to establish a new partnership with the international community.

Mr. Ban announced earlier this month that he and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would attend the launch on 3 May.

The preparatory process was co-chaired by Iraq and the UN, through Mr. Gambari, and has also had the support of the World Bank.

The presence of Mr. governor of Najaf
)Economic Symposium (hand in hand towards the building of Iraq)

.Under the slogan (hand in hand towards the building of Iraq) held the Economics Department at the Faculty of Administration and Economics at the University of Kufa in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce Najaf Economic Forum on investment in the Middle Euphrates possibilities and opportunities, on Tuesday morning, April 24, 2007, attended by Mr. Governor of Najaf.
.Dr. Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum during his research that the most deprived areas in Iraq is the Middle Euphrates We must move in order to create a balance between the private and public sector. .The five governorates (Euphrates East) there are five oil fields and one in Najaf and two in Karbala and two in Muthanna, 25% of the total area located in the Negev desert in Muthanna in the extractive sector and there are opportunities in the five governorates of the private sector to engage strongly in the area of transfer and the establishment of the refineries.
.And officials in the Middle Euphrates attention to unconventional oil extraction project needs to be implemented.

جابريSadik Gabri
لاشرفOffice of the Governor of Najaf
24/4/2007April 24, 2007
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