Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

With all the new posts since last night , does it equate that the Dinar R/V will still Happen soon, or is there another extended wait?
Sorry I am so confused at the happenings, and News.
It seems to me that there is a lot of straw grabbing and crystal ball gazing. I know we are all hopeing, and praying for this to all come about, but It seems like Just when the R/V is about to happen Along comes another road block.
I guess Patience and Prayers are appropriate here.
Come on Iraq get it straight. Your people NEED a R/V . ------and so does the rest of the WORLD.

The first political : Security forces, killing and arresting about (400), a terrorist suspect in the various regions of the country
Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/paper.php?source=akbar&page=8

Baghdad-Sabah
Yesterday, security forces killed six terrorists and arrested 298 others and arrested 90 suspects and 22 defused an explosive device in the overall military operations carried out by the partitioning operations, that has led to the explosion of a booby-trapped car in the university district of Baghdad killing a citizen and wounding four others injured. said in a statement received (morning) copy

Information Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, pointing out that the forces of the Ministry of Defense was able to arrest the 91 terrorists and the seizure of large quantities of arms and ammunition during the various campaign implemented in cooperation with the national police forces in the area Alkaton Bbah, With forces arrested five of the Party in the army in collaboration with the national police force of 57 terrorists and seized another 125 pieces of weaponry in the same city district teachers and arrested a terrorist in the area of Khan Bani Saad, responsible for the terrorist attacks, and the displacement of families. The statement added that the clans Anbar cooperation with the police carried out a raid brine for nests of terrorists in the city resulted in killing four terrorists and the arrest of eight others have different nationalities, while army troops arrested in the same city, 18 suspects. He pointed out that army troops in Baghdad arrested a terrorist driving a motorcycle bomb in the Mansour district after defused as well as the heroes of ten explosive devices had been planted in various parts of the capital. The statement said that army forces killed two terrorists inside the car bomb to detonate when trying one of the checkpoints in the Huwayjah area. as well as the killing of two others and the arrest of the third and seizing Walker of the terrorists and the arrest of 26 suspects and defuse a car bomb, three explosive devices in Kirkuk boycotted the Salah-al-Din, Diyala, pointing to the arrest of 25 suspects in another firm of Mosul. He added that national police forces arrested four suspects in possession of various weapons and defused two explosive devices in the session, managed the first contingent of troops from the same seizure of large quantities of arms and equipment in the Mada'in south of Baghdad. On the other hand, security sources citizen killed and four others injured when a car bomb explosion in a suburb of Baghdad University, He added that the explosion led to the burning of a building near the incident and destroying a number of vehicles.

great posts,
Staying on this train all the way. Pulling into the station sometime in
October.
LIT

Originally Posted by bob1940

With all the new posts since last night , does it equate that the Dinar R/V will still Happen soon, or is there another extended wait?
Sorry I am so confused at the happenings, and News.
It seems to me that there is a lot of straw grabbing and crystal ball gazing. I know we are all hopeing, and praying for this to all come about, but It seems like Just when the R/V is about to happen Along comes another road block.
I guess Patience and Prayers are appropriate here.
Come on Iraq get it straight. Your people NEED a R/V . ------and so does the rest of the WORLD.

Bob, time to get out your reading glasses and get in on this fun!

This part comes later!

Iraqi Parliament convened Monday a meeting of the second reading of the draft law of the mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions


01/10/2006
16:45 (GMT)


The Iraqi Parliament Monday session devoted to the second reading of a draft bill submitted by the Shiite unified coalition on the mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions after the completion of the first reading last week. A parliamentary source said that the House postponed the meeting, which was scheduled for Sunday to a second reading, to Monday, He stressed that the Presidency in the parliament decided three days ago to postpone to tomorrow's meeting Sunday without clarifying the reasons. The error Iraq last Tuesday, the first step towards the adoption of a bill in Parliament endorses the principle of federalism demanded by the Kurds and the majority Shiites and leaders oppose the Sunni Arabs fear that the introduction of the division. It was the House of Representatives completed a first reading of the draft law submitted by the coalition consolidated on "mechanisms and procedures" to form regions. The law becomes "the mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions" effect 18 months after approval in Parliament. After the completion of the second reading of the draft, will come to a vote after four days. The first deputy chairman of parliament, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah said an agreement between the parliamentary blocs including "the formation of a committee to amend the Constitution in accordance with Article 142, that is the completion of the procedures within a period not exceeding one year from the date of its formation. "

Radio Sawa - البرلمان العراقي يعقد الاثنين جلسة لقراءة ثانية لمسودة قانون آليات واجراءات تشكيل الاقاليم

Iraq shuts down Baghdad with one-day curfew
Reuters
September 29, 2006
This was purposely and intentionally from groups which are connected to Saddam
By Peter Graff

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets, but giving no reason for the measure.

The curfew would remain in place until 6:00 a.m. (0200) on Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office said in a one- line statement. The U.S. military did not comment.

The announcement came after a week of clashes and bombings heralded the start of the holy month of Ramadan. U.S. commanders say the past week saw a record number of suicide bombings and the last two weeks have seen a surge in violence.

Although no explanation was given for the curfew, residents of the Adamiya neighborhood in the north of the capital said they heard gunfire and explosions near dusk on Friday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched a seven-week-old security crackdown in the capital, targeting scattered neighborhoods for sweeps. But Sunni and Shi'ite sectarian militia have clashed in several parts of the city over recent days.

The Ramadan holy month began a week ago with a massive bomb in a Shi'ite neighborhood that killed at least 34 people. A Sunni militant group claimed responsibility for that attack and said it was revenge for killings by Shi'ite death squads.

The curfew comes a day after gunmen killed the brother-in- law of the chief judge in former leader Saddam Hussein's genocide trial and badly wounded his sister and nephew.

It was at least the fourth killing closely connected to the U.S.-sponsored court, following those of three defense lawyers, and will raise new questions about its ability to conduct fair trials in a nation on the verge of sectarian civil war.

"This was purposely and intentionally from groups which are connected to Saddam," spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters, adding that he expected judge Mohammed al-Ureybi nonetheless to continue presiding over the trial which he took over last week.

The government sacked his predecessor for saying Saddam was "not a dictator".

Police said two officers were killed on Friday in clashes in Baghdad's violent southern Dora district. A Sunni tribal leader was killed by gunmen in the same area.

Some tribal sheikhs have become targets for militants, especially following a deal this week by tribes in western Anbar province to take on al Qaeda alongside government forces.

The tribes captured five militants in the Anbar province capital Ramadi on Friday, including three foreign fighters from Yemen, police and tribal leaders said.

The U.S. commander in Ramadi, Colonel Sean MacFarland, hailed the tribes' action. He said his troops' mission was not to defeat the insurgency but to reduce violence to a manageable level, allowing Iraqi security forces to take over.

Attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces in Ramadi had fallen to 15 a day from 20 a few months ago, he told reporters in the Pentagon by video link, adding much more had to be done.

Copyright © 2006 Reuters, All Rights Reserved.

Iraq shuts down Baghdad with one-day curfew

IOL: Locked-down Baghdad goes online

Locked-down Baghdad goes online

By Hiba Moussa

Baghdad - In the endless daily battle against the fear and isolation of life under lock-down, the people of Baghdad have found a way to keep their city alive: moving it online.

Instead of enjoying an outdoor meal at one of the fish restaurants along the Tigris embankment, 28-year-old housewife Dunya Saad spends her evenings at the computer in her living room, chatting with her friends on Yahoo! Messenger.

Most of her relatives and friends live on the far side of the Tigris, and seeing them in person is nearly impossible.

'Honestly, the outside craziness freaks me out'
"It's sad not to see your friends like in the good old days," she sighed. "But online chatting has made things better."

Since the February bombing of a Shi'a shrine in Samarra sparked a wave of sectarian bloodshed, the Internet has gone from being a hobby for tech-savvy enthusiasts to a mass replacement for the daily interactions of city life.

In Baghdad, shops close early. Cars are not permitted on the streets after 9pm. Many parts of the city are completely deserted by sunset.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to move to parts of the city where they do not know the neighbours.

"I only go out on emergencies like attending a funeral or visiting a doctor," said Zainab, 35, an office secretary who asked to be identified by her first name. "Honestly, the outside craziness freaks me out."

'It's not like reality. But I enjoy it'
She has not seen her friends for months. Instead, she meets them over online video-conferences.

"Most of the time we talk about the security situation. Who had been killed, kidnapped, or recently fled the country."

Moving Baghdad into cyberspace has been a feat of free- market ingenuity.

Perhaps the hardest part is electricity. Much of Baghdad had electricity for 12 to 18 hours a day before the US-led invasion in 2003. Most neighbourhoods now get electricity from the grid for just four to six hours a day.

It means ordinary people have to know their ohms from their amperes and their megabits from their kilohertz.

Most middle class households now have cables snaking down the street to a neighbourhood "generator man" who gives them diesel-generated power for a monthly fee of about $10 per ampere. Six or seven amperes are usually enough for a computer, a TV and a fridge. An air conditioner costs more.

A neighbourhood Internet cafe will sell a subscription for wireless Wi-Fi access to its satellite broadband hookup for about $40 (about R) a month.

Most Iraqis have only experienced the Internet since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The ousted leader officially linked Iraq to the Web when his government set up the State Company for Internet Services in 2000. But private connections were banned and the only legal provider blocked access to email and chat sites.

Today, companies have sprung up around Baghdad, taking advantage of new broadband satellite connections that make it possible to establish a mini internet service provider without relying on any centralised infrastructure at all.

Ali Youssif, whose company Infozone runs four Internet providers in different parts of Baghdad, says he subscribes to satellite broadband connections from firms in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

One of his providers has a two-megabit-per-second connection - a similar speed to a single home's broadband link in most Western countries - which costs about $7 000 a month over satellite.

It sells access to 200 subscribers across three Baghdad neighbourhoods, earning a total of about $8 000 in revenue.

Private generators power the Wi-Fi hotspots during the day, with batteries offering up to 200 amperes of power to keep them running without interruption through the night.

For freelance journalist Ammar Ali, 30, the Internet is a place to find love in a city where flirting with a woman can get a man kidnapped or killed.

He has only been online for about a year, but he already has a long list of "female friends" with whom he keeps in touch on a nearly daily basis. Some live in other neighbourhoods, some in other countries.

"It's not like reality. But I enjoy it," he says. "It's a good means to escape our miserable reality. At least, until a new morning comes."

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Zubaidi : the Arab ministers of finance and promised to support Iraq

Baghdad-Haider spring
Mr. Jabr Al-Zubaidi, the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and the Iraqi delegation accompanying him in the meetings of the Arab Group on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held in Singapore.






Today Oct 2 2006 head Lines in Al-Sabah News Paper
Al-Sabah : Economic


Demand fluctuates witnessed stationery markets despite lower prices

Baghdad Haider spring
With the start of the new school year
Markets in Baghdad stationery relatively tepid in the preparation Almetbdhaina despite the start of the new school year and the moderation in the prices of all types of materials which are sold in those markets. He attributed some of the specialized shops selling school supplies due to the deteriorating security situation



The impact of economic factors in determining the rural housing

Imad Principality
The investment legislation agricultural land and impact player in the distribution pattern ((housing units)) also has a direct impact in the distribution pattern of rural settlements. The different forces in terms of the number of rural population depending on local resources and the ability of rights



Agriculture and Wasit announce its plan for investment projects

Al-Hassan al-Azzawi, a martyr
The Agricultural Engineer peace Iskandar Director cultivation Wasit governorate of direct agricultural projects within the indicative investment plan. He explained that there was a project in hand, Sheikh Saad (40 km) south of Kut will direct for the receipt and delivery of conservation and milk output from the fields of rearing calves



Iraq intends to develop oil fields shared with Kuwait, Iran and Syria

Baghdad-Sabah
The oil minister Hussein Shahrastani that Iraq will sign agreements on joint development of oil fields with Kuwait, Syria and Iran. He pointed out that Iraq and Iran will sign an agreement to develop oil fields after the joint technicians of drawing borders between the two sides.



For substantive explanation of the phenomenon of inflation in the economy Iraqi-1 -

D. Falah behind spring *
* Faculty of Economics / University of Omar Mukhtar
Require objectivity in the economic analysis of the phenomenon of inflation in Iraq as a complex phenomenon does not contribute to the formation of only one factor such as the increase in the prices of the recent increase in derivatives or cash, but should be linked to several factors, cash and real, This phenomenon is not only stems from increases in the quantity of money as it was under the previous regime.



The Iraqi economy between the public sector and private sector

D. Salah al-Din Hamid *
* An economic expert
Coexists public and private sectors in the economies of all nations, But it is different role and the size of each in the economic activity from one State to another, depending upon the nature of the economic system approach and the level of development of these countries.



500, and the medical institution involved in the medical world for the reconstruction of Iraq

Baghdad-Sabah
The National Company for the organization of exhibitions and conferences, it will be the first world exhibition of medicine to the reconstruction of Iraq, which will be held in the March 3 of next year in order to support and encourage investment in the field of medicine and health services in Iraq, through the exchange of views between the companies and institutions and the Arab Gulf and global willing to enter the Iraqi market, especially in this area.



Zubaidi : the Arab ministers of finance and promised to support Iraq

Baghdad-Haider spring
Mr. Jabr Al-Zubaidi, the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and the Iraqi delegation accompanying him in the meetings of the Arab Group on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held in Singapore.



Privatization in the balance between supporters and opponents

D. Sheikh Mohammed Jabbar Hammadi.
The proponents of privatization and Mrojoha many of the pros and benefits while opponents of privatization to explain the merits and dangers in the economic, social and political Among the focus in the area of the pros and interest in the perspective of the promoter of privatization, The private sector is competitive in the vicinity of the engine first indispensable for the growth of economy



The draft special law to sell oil in Kurdistan

Irbil morning
The Robert Asti and natural resources minister in the government of Kurdistan region : (The territorial government is preparing a draft law on the territory of the oil could be dealing directly with foreign oil companies).

MOTO I took your advise. thanks ! I found my reading glasses, and Ya know what? I finally settled down, and now READING everything. VERY INTERESTING. SGS Posts very, very Informative, and interesting. Thanks again .

I like this part!

The law becomes "the mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions" effect 18 months after approval in Parliament. After the completion of the second reading of the draft, will come to a vote after four days. The first deputy chairman of parliament, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah said an agreement between the parliamentary blocs including "the formation of a committee to amend the Constitution in accordance with Article 142, that is the completion of the procedures within a period not exceeding one year from the date of its formation. "


Translated version of http://www.radiosawa.com/article.aspx?id=1019453