Thread: Iraq/Dinar News Until 5/3/07 Midnight CST.

Originally Posted by dinartank

hey neno hope your feeling better i see you down there...and word from the grapevine.

http://www.rolclub.com/rumors-predic...tml#post195115

Baghdad Clearing Operation a Success

American Forces Press Service | Donna Miles | May 01, 2007


WASHINGTON - A major clearing operation that wrapped up last week in Baghdad succeeded in preventing 3,200 roadside bombs, jailing 42 terrorists, and seizing enough weapons and explosives to outfit an enemy infantry battalion, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division's 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team reported today.

Col. Steven Townsend described sweeping success in Operation Arrowhead Strike 9, which kicked off March 20 to clear west-central Baghdad's Mansour security district.

The unit's ninth brigade-level operation since arriving in Baghdad in December "significantly reduced insurgent activity" in the region in support of the Task Force Dagger ground forces operating there, Col. Townsend told Pentagon reporters via videoconference from Camp Liberty.

The "Arrowhead Brigade" Soldiers worked hand in hand throughout the 36-day campaign with the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which controls the battle space, and Iraqi forces.

Col. Townsend tallied the operation's gains: three confirmed terrorists killed in close combat, 161 suspects detained for questioning, with 42 of them placed in long-term detention. Two kidnap victims were rescued, after being found chained in empty houses. "Both had been tortured and would surely have been executed eventually," Col. Townsend said.

The most impressive yield of the operation came in terms of 92 weapons caches found during the operation, he said. The troops captured and destroyed 356 small arms, mortars and or rocket-propelled grenades, 147 explosive munitions, three car bombs, two suicide vests, and 143 completed or partial roadside bombs.

Some of these munitions were from Iran, China and former Warsaw Pact countries, but it wasn't possible to tell how long they had been in Iraq, he said.

In addition, the troops captured a roadside bomb electronics factory that held components for up to 3,200 additional bombs, and destroyed three homemade explosives factories found in abandoned homes, Col. Townsend said.

But the real significance of Operation Arrowhead Strike 9, he said, extends far beyond the actual weapons, bomb-making materials and suspects captured. "All of this success enabled the Daggar Brigade and the Iraqi Karkh Area Command to make progress in a more meaningful way," he said.

Col. Townsend cited signs of that progress. Killings and mortar attacks in the district have "dropped off significantly" and Iraqis are moving on with their day-to-day lives. They're cleaning trash and sewage from the streets, reopening markets and moving about on the streets in greater numbers.

They're also taking a stand against violence, he reported, providing more leads through phone and e-mail tip lines.

"This success did not come without a cost," he noted. Two Arrowhead brigade Soldiers and an Iraqi army Soldier died during the operation, and a Stryker vehicle was lost to a roadside bomb.

Since moving into Baghdad to replace the outgoing 172nd Stryker Brigade, the Arrowhead Brigade has assumed a two-fold security mission, Col. Townsend explained. It serves as Multinational Division Baghdad's strike force, a mobile, offensively oriented force that disrupts insurgent activity and clears areas of the capital where insurgents are operating. At the same time, it serves as Multinational Corps Iraq's operational reserve, ready to respond to threats anywhere in Iraq.

Its most important job, he said, is to reinforce troops operating on the ground.

"In my view, it is the battle space owners who do all the heavy lifting here in Baghdad," Col. Townsend said. "They are living among the people, patrolling the toughest places in Baghdad day in and day out, and working on supporting Iraqis' efforts in all four of our main lines of operation: security, transition, economics and governance."

The "Arrowhead Brigade," home-based at Fort Lewis, Wash., holds a long list of "firsts" in the Army, Col. Townsend noted. It was the Army's first Stryker brigade, its first Stryker brigade to deploy for combat and its first Styker brigade to return for a second deployment to Iraq.

Nearly half the unit's 4,000 Soldiers are veterans of its first deployment, he said.

Baghdad Clearing Operation a Success

Originally Posted by dinartank

Has NBK rate always been a few pips lower than the cbi?? I have heard there rate today was 1267...

from where?

Originally Posted by lndmn_01

from where?

AHHH been searching to find it...i read it here or from the darkside....maybe ive lost my mind Has anyone else heard or read of this??

Originally Posted by Alphamystic

Aaawwwww girl, don't tease! What kinda info do you have? You mentioned your feeling was this Thursday, can you elaborate a bit?

i posted that i got information in a message today that someone got a call from iraq and the person said we would be able to cash out on the 8th they figured.

ive been thinking it might be announced on the 3rd with the economic package but we shall see how it unfolds. considering the neighbors arent meeting until friday the 4th it might be after that too. ill be watchin mightly close between now and monday thats for sure!!

Originally Posted by dinartank

AHHH been searching to find it...i read it here or from the darkside....maybe ive lost my mind Has anyone else heard or read of this??

Tank here's the NBK link...they are 109.6841 lower than CBI tonite. Their rate is 1,159.3159.

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Iraqi cabinet approves oil draft law

01 May 2007 (MENAFN)
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The Iraqi Prime Minister said that the Iraqi Cabinet accepted a draft law which states how Iraq's oil profits will be shared, it will also outline terms of how foreign oil agencies will be able to operate in the country, Iraq Development Program reported.

Under the terms of the new draft law, the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC) will be independently functional and joined with oil companies around the country.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister stated that the oil sector's profits will be put in a central account and distributed according to population and that the draft law will be put into action by the end of this month.

NOTICE THE DATE OF THIS ARTICLE. THEN THEY MENTION WILL BE PUT INTO ACTION. SO THIS COULD BE SAYING. THAT THIS HAS PASSED PARLIMENT, AND HAS NOW. GOT THE FINAL OK FROM THE CABINET TO BE ENACTED!

Justice / agencies : The President of the Governing Council, "the Iraqi company for bank guarantees", the depositary Alhandal request by the Emirates companies to enter into strategic partnership,

.He added that it is a step that will activate the program established by the company's board in two meetings in each of Irbil Oman, who spent expanding the base of the company's activity to develop capital opportunities it offers vistas for investment in productive sectors variety. .He added that the authorities consider offers companies Emirates order allowing them to enter into partnership with his company, which is scheduled to move from a private company to a shareholding company put its shares for public subscription. .He explained that there are other Iraqi banks will join the company in the current year, to become more representative of the Iraqi banking sector, which was undergoing radical direction to strengthen its role in the process of development and construction, and revealed Alhandal, who also heads the board of directors "Ashur International Bank for Investment," one Iraqi banks partner in the company, to more than 20 the local submitted a request to obtain loans from the company to implement projects in the areas of industrial, agricultural and service sector, construction and tourism, pointing out that "the boom" financed by "the American Agency for International Development", which specializes development of private sector activity in Iraq, the contribution of the company of 500 thousand dollars, explaining that even now exchange $ 1 million in loans for about 60 projects varied in size and activity throughout Iraq, the Iraqi banks contribution to the company doubling loans and Alhandal expected to double the volume of loans made by the company's projects during a shorter period.
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Originally Posted by dinartank

AHHH been searching to find it...i read it here or from the darkside....maybe ive lost my mind Has anyone else heard or read of this??

Street Market Rate Today 1267. Heard it also..

Iraq Amb. Ryan Crocker Digital Video Conference
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:20 am
Press Release: US State Department

Special Briefing
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
May 1, 2007

Scoop: Iraq Amb. Ryan Crocker Digital Video Conference