Thread: Iraq/Dinar News Until 5/31/2007 7:15 PM CST..

The sense of exclusion and marginalization
Date : Thursday, May 31
The name of the page : the first page of the newspaper Sabah

Baghdad morning
According to parliamentary sources told (morning) that the next week will witness the new parliamentary bloc, comprising (15) Vice consensus, dialogue and reconciliation and liberation

The sources pointed out that the new bloc which will be renamed (independent Arab bloc) aimed at breaking the sectarian alliances and to give a clear view on constitutional issues such as Article 140 of the Constitution and the Law on Oil and depth of Iraq Arab and Islamic worlds. The sources explained that the bloc was ready to enter alliances with the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, or any other parliamentary bloc, she said, are not directed against any bloc or hand and it is ready to deal with everyone.
The sources indicated that the MP Abdullah al-Jabouri Mtalk representative consensus in the House leads ongoing meetings with several deputies resulted in the approval of about 15 deputies to join the bloc. The sources stated that (dictatorship) lists some heads and some deputies feeling of marginalization, exclusion and failure to take their views on key issues pushed to the formation of this bloc. And these leaks came one day after the withdrawal of Dr. Mahdi Al-Hafiz from the Iraqi List result of the absence of transparency in politics.

Kuwaiti company built in the tourist city of Kufah
Date : Thursday, May 31
The name of the page : the first page of the newspaper Sabah
Najaf Hussein Kaabi
Najaf governorate signed a contract to build an integrated tourist city with a hotel in the district of Kufah with a Kuwaiti company at 35 billion dollars, came during a visit by a delegation headed by Deputy maintain governor Abdel Hussein Abtan including a number of members of the preserve

An official source in the governorate told (morning) : The visit comes within a civil administration in Najaf to sign a series of contracts and memorandums of understanding with Kuwaiti investment companies, in order to collect Najaf and Kuwait s investment one, and to contribute to the introduction of the Kuwaiti investment to preserve, to stimulate the private sector. He pointed out that the delegation will discuss on the establishment of the Center for the Study quote for investment in Kuwait with the Najaf governorate in addition to the central and southern governorates. With agreement has been reached with a specialized company to build popular markets in general revival of Najaf appropriate amounts to alleviate the suffering of street vendors and owners of limited income

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Coverage of more than (200) Graduate School and the Institute of loans establishing income-generating projects
Date : Thursday, May 31
Page name : the latest news on the Iraqi arena
Baghdad-Rali sure
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (205) graduates of registered unemployed operating centers and vocational training in Baghdad loans establish small income-generating activities. An official source in the ministry told (morning) :

The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Radi agreed to grant the loan amount l (205) graduates of colleges and institutes, the unemployed and enrolled in a job center, vocational training and Baghdad shopkeepers affected and displaced persons wishing to return to their homes in Baghdad exclusively. The source added that the audit covered the loan five branches of the Rafidain Bank the specific amount of exchange and the establishment of projects that have been set in advance. Alluding to the loan amount ranges between (10 - 5) million dinars, as the economic feasibility of the project and they repaid during the period (8 - 5) years. The source indicated that the ministry so far agreed to pay the loan amount to more than (600) covered by the

Promised to 380 million dollars
Date : Thursday, May 31
Page name : the latest news on the Iraqi arena
Japan rehabilitation systems essential for (13) years of hospital
Baghdad-Saadi deer
Japan completed the rehabilitation of basic systems for 13 years in Iraq Hospital, has built one of the Japanese companies during the 1980s of the last century

The grant provided to the Ministry of Health $ 150 million. He said General Director of the Department of Petroleum Engineering Projects Zafar Mahmoud Sa'idi told the (morning) : The company agreed with the Japanese side completed a public hospital in the southern sector, central and northern. He said rehabilitation included rehabilitation systems (oxygen, fluids withdrawn central sterile water, electricity generation, cooling, Central sterilization) after it had been idle in most public hospitals consume more than 50% of a hospital in addition to x-ray machines and emergency and operating rooms, intensive care and laboratory equipment and other medical. He added that the provincial assemblies, particularly the South, She very cooperative in facilitating the task of completing this project by providing the necessary protection to companies operating tables, as well as to facilitate the task of entering the equipment and after that process has seen many entry harassed by customs. Sa'idi reported that the Japanese side promised to provide a loan estimated at $ 380 million, to submit to the Ministry of Health to complete rehabilitation hospitals mentioned, and there are some ongoing negotiations, where the Service will provide project engineering studies of the development process.

With oil derivatives accounted Mafia quotas generators eligibility
Date : Tuesday, May 29
Page name : Economic
Citizens suffer from Amp prices and promises of electricity in the air stapler
Baghdad-Imad Principality
A number of citizens revealed that the amount of kerosine for generators eligibility Kotawatha go to fictitious names, which led to high prices, reflected in the price per Amp to become b 15 thousand dinars .. With continue

The Ministry of Electricity and justifications-minute promise to increase the suffering of citizens in the summer bar .. Verfuga sick children and the elderly suffer Yaozarh electricity as areas of Baghdad power outages, which lasted for consecutive days without obtaining family Iraqi need of a simple national electricity.
D. Karim Wahid and the Minister of Electricity and through press statements l (morning) (2007/3/7) on the imminent arrival (44) and diesel unit up energy unit (1.7) Mika W will be distributed to several areas of Baghdad, after the American side pledged to provide 2 million liters of a substance (kerosine oil) for the operation before the summer season! ! Today, we live summer days without a change, but what happened was the opposite as living near the capital Baghdad College of interruptions in power supply, in order to shed light on the problems of the national electricity and the alternatives in place and generators of electricity generation private sector Ahli Al (morning) field tour in a number of areas of Baghdad, It met with a number of citizens and owners of large generators that feed areas of Baghdad, (Ahmed Abdel Wahab)'s generating great Tell us about the work and how processing and suffering due to increased hours of electricity pieces national saying : at the beginning of the fourth month of the current year (2007) the Ministry of Electricity and assurances that next summer will witness a significant improvement in the delivery of electricity, but which we live today is the opposite as living areas of Baghdad and consecutive days in semi College of interruptions in power supply, (Abdel Wahab) added : Ironically, I am generating significant in the (Jihad) and size (250) K.V covers about Lambert (1000) distributed to a large number of houses region, the problem that we are experiencing is the high prices (kerosene) and not honoring those responsible in giving quota of kerosine as well as the deterioration of security conditions, For a simple comparison between prices Amp per year (2006), which was confined prices (6) - (8) thousand dinars believe that the year (2007) because of the many problems afflicting the electricity sector, national price rose to Amp (15) and (18) thousand dinars (Abdel Wahab) explained that the Iraqi family used in the simplest cases (5) amperes to address the shortage of electricity and this means that the family paid monthly wages of not less than (60) thousand dinars, and there are families in some parts of Baghdad, employing more than (10) amperes, arriving price lists to (170) thousand dinars. Many individuals (Mafia) oil derivatives to pay certain amounts of those responsible for the provision of article kerosine, after receiving the formal authorization of the receipt can kerosine and sold after that in the black market. Citizen (Jabbar Kadhim) addressed another aspect of the daily suffering of the citizens due to power outages, referring to cases of (commercial fraud) happen in the markets selling generators, as he explained : generators located in the markets of Baghdad commercial (5) K.V be sold in a specific market, while depletion of the dealer contract with the processor outside the country for processing market generators of the same kind (brand), size, but bad efficiently exploited so good reputation sold through diet first generator when it receives many of the problems as a result of the many setbacks that occur to those generators. (Jabbar) pointed out by another poor (spare) for generators deployed in large numbers in the market with multiple origin of all commercial and not subject to quality control, (Jabbar) pointed out that the citizen suffers from the difficulty of knowing the good kind of bad for generators deployed in the markets of Baghdad, and added :
Some generators written by (3) K.V This means that the tagged (12) Embera But the fact is that their obstetric not reach only to (7), (8) Lambert and good types of generators in the commercial market, but are sold at high prices. after this field review, we find that the citizen relies primarily on private generators for the delivery of electricity with an almost total lack of national electricity services note that the Ministry of Electricity has given many justifications on the substantial decrease in electricity supply them (fuel shortage) The ministry said that since many plants for electricity generation currently stalled because of the shortfall in the amounts of fuel received particularly gas station Nasiriyah and Samawah gas station and the station Taji, Wasit gas station causing the loss of about (700) Mika Watt was scheduled to supply the electric power system.

The development of three fields in Dhi Qar to raise the daily capacity to 500 thousand barrels Date : Tuesday, May 29
Page name : Economic
Nasiriyah morning
The South Oil Company announced its intention to expand and develop the production of oil fields in Dhi Qar. A source in the company said that Makhoul fields are Gharraf, Abu column and Nasiriyah, to reach production capacity of Gharraf field to more than 120 thousand

Bpd, and Abu column fields to reach 110 thousand barrels per day, With expected to reach production capacity of crude oil to the field of Nasiriyah to 300 thousand barrels per day. A source authorized in the South Oil Company indicated that the development will contribute to raise the productive capacity of the oil fields in the province to reach 500 thousand barrels per day, noting that the company has developed the oil fields of Dhi Qar to perform the functions of the Department of oil production in the province, stressing that investment in these fields will increase crude oil production ceiling of the southern region and will benefit the development of the national economy and maintaining services in general

Date : Wednesday, May 30
Topic : latest news
Finance Minister announced a strike Jabr said in a press statement that 45 States have canceled debts on Iraq with rates ranging between 80% and 100% exemptions totaled 140 billion dollars.
This was considered a significant achievement in the framework of the agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the International Monetary Fund. His counterpart that the country's budget in 2007 is different from the budget last year and the proportion of the implementation of a number of ministries other than good budget unable to do so and will withdraw money and give it to other ministries • He added that the current year The relatively stable inflation in the range between 40% and 45%, pointing to the success of the Iraqi Central Bank in raising hard currency reserves reached 21 billion dollars could provide a reassuring stability

Originally Posted by zipper

Lest we forget - recent news regarding two from my brigade:

DoD Identifies Army Casualty


The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died May 28 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their OH-58D Kiowa helicopter crashed after receiving heavy enemy fire during combat operations. They were assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Killed were:

1st Lt. Keith N. Heidtman, 24, of Norwich, Conn.

Chief Warrant Officer Theodore U. Church, 32, of Ohio.

For more information in regard to this release the media can contact the Schofield Barracks public affairs office at (808) 655-8729.

prayers for those left behind.

Originally Posted by mewannapeg

From Iraq, Jane Arraf Answers Your Questions
WMDs, the Iraqi Army, Brain Drain, Foreign Contractors and Soldier Sex
By JANE ARRAF Posted 1 hr. 17 min. ago

Q: Given the HCL, the ICI, and the Foreign Investment law are all still being pushed through despite the social upheaval and security problems, it seems that economics is at the fore of the government's agenda, not the violence. Are Iraqis looking for the economics to create peace, or is this done despite the need to quell the violence?

A: I think there's a recognition that there can't be and won't be any sort of peace without some underlying prosperity - what that means on the ground is creating jobs so that young men with no prospects won't turn to the insurgency for money and status. It means making sure the Shiite-dominated central government actually provides services - particularly to Sunni areas. Right now water, electricity and food seem to be used as reward and punishment. Security, economics and politics are interlinked here and what the U.S. military is trying to do with the troop surge is provide breathing space for the government to provide essential services, improve the economy, get its ministries functioning and reach out politically to Sunni and other groups that have been neglected.

IraqSlogger: From Iraq, Jane Arraf Answers Your Questions

Cool... I was the one who asked her that question. I feel all important now...

Originally Posted by Ialdoboath

Cool... I was the one who asked her that question. I feel all important now...

how do you thinnk they fixed the social upheaval and security problems after the end of world war 2? Thats right! RV! Do I have to spell it!