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

Originally Posted by Adster

At this point I just wanted to just say, things are looking good. Do I hear a WOOT?!

WOOOOOOOT !!

Whew! That felt good!!

The Council of Ministers studying the subject Industrialization Corporation

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The Council of Ministers studying the subject of MIC disbanded

According to the directives of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki The Council of Ministers issue MIC disbanded and each of the (redemption Tareq, urban splendor. Zulfiqar of the Al-Rashid) to the Committee on Economic Affairs for the purpose of study and taking detailed information on each company in terms of existing and associate, The economic feasibility of re-operation for decision-making and appropriate action to resolve the matter.

Originally Posted by Justpraying

TIME.com: Doubts Grow Over Iraq's Prime Minister -- Page 1



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Doubts Grow Over Iraq's Prime Minister
His complaints about a U.S. raid renew questions about whether Maliki remains too politically beholden to militia leaders
By APARISIM GHOSH/BAGHDAD
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Posted Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006
Does Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have the political spine to deal with Iraq's No. 1 problem — the Shi'ite militias? There's a growing suspicion in Baghdad that he does not. Having promised, for the umpteenth time, to crack down on the sectarian death squads wreaking havoc on the Iraqi capital, the prime minister promptly turned around and castigated U.S. forces for doing precisely that. The Iraqi leader claimed that a predawn raid Wednesday on a militia stronghold by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers had been conducted without his approval, and said such attacks would not be repeated.

A U.S. military statement said the raid was directed at a "top illegal armed group commander directing widespread death squad activity throughout eastern Baghdad." At least 4 people were killed and 20 injured in the raid, which included air strikes from U.S. aircraft. It is unclear whether the targeted militia leader was captured. Although the U.S. said Iraqi special forces played the lead role in the raid, al-Maliki claimed the Iraqi government had not been consulted.

Passing the Buck in Baghdad

AUDIO: The Iraqi prime minister has shown once again that he is not willing to crack down seriously on the Shi'ite militias - which means U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are wasting their time and risking their lives

For the beleaguered residents of Baghdad, this has become a familiar Green Zone farce. Beholden to the very militias he has vowed to crush, the increasingly hamstrung prime minister has forced U.S. troops guarding the city to don kid gloves when dealing with the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to the radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence that kills an average of 100 Iraqis a day. And there is palpable frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly scolded by the Iraqi prime minister. "Every time he does one of these about-turns, he makes the Madhi Army stronger and the government weaker," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "And of course, it drives the [Americans] up the wall."

Moqtada al-Sadr commands enough seats in the Iraqi parliament to topple the prime minister, which is what makes his Mahdi Army untouchable. Still, few in Baghdad doubt that the Mahdi Army is conducting a campaign of organized violence against Iraq's Sunnis. TIME has uncovered evidence of a Mahdi Army program of ethnic cleansing designed to drive Sunnis out of mixed neighborhoods. As a member of a Shi'ite Islamist party himself, al-Maliki dares not incur the wrath of his own community. The last Iraqi leader who tried to face down al-Sadr, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, paid a heavy political price — in two general elections following his authorization of U.S. forces to smash the Mahdi Army in the summer of 2004, Allawi has been soundly defeated. That cautionary tale is not lost on al-Maliki.

So, rather than directly confront the Shi'ite militias, the prime minister tends to deflect the blame for the sectarian violence toward Sunni terrorist organizations. He did it again Wednesday, saying: "The root of the bloody cycle that we are undergoing is the presence of terror organizations that have arrived in the country."

Nor was the prime minister in any mood to placate his critics. In addition to criticizing the U.S. military, al-Maliki on Wednesday also publicly slapped down U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. He dismissed suggestions — made a day earlier by Khalilzad — that Iraqi political parties had agreed to timetables for dealing with the violence. "No one has the right to impose a timetable" on the Iraqi government, he said.

He suggested Khalilzad's statement was motivated by political considerations that had more to do with the American midterm elections due next month than any real deal. " We are not much concerned with it, " he said. The defiance plays well with al-Maliki's political allies: al-Sadr and other Shi'ite Islamists. But it leaves other groups, including Sunnis, Kurds and secular Iraqis — and not a few observers in Washington — wondering whether the prime minister can stop his country from descending into a total sectarian war.

Great post! Kinda' tells the "rest of the story" so-to-speak, doesn't it?

Hear the word 'dinar' a bunch with the second guy at this news conference - wish I knew their language.

THE PRESS statements are recorded on the website - will get a friend of my son's to come over a tell me what they said. will post it later today.

Originally Posted by MrsCK

Hear the word 'dinar' a bunch with the second guy at this news conference - wish I knew their language.

Where are you getting this from???

Originally Posted by Adster

Where are you getting this from???

PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ

that the link that I just post on page 10 or 11 - plus posted it yesterday that the 2 top links were the only ones working - but now the bottom links are starting to work.

Hope you know somebody the can understand what they are saying.

Since it has a live feed - was hoping that someone could watch the live feed - translate for us - instead of us "waiting' for the outcome in the news.

European desire for openness on Iraq at all

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European desire for openness on Iraq in all fields

Baghdad-Sabah
Ambassador, the European Commission adopted in Baghdad (Ilkka Osei Kalo), the importance of a joint bilateral agreements with European countries expressed strong desire of these countries to open up Iraq and the broadening horizons of cooperation in all areas.
This came during a meeting between Dr. Abdul farmer Hassan, the Sudanese Minister of Trade Union's ambassador at the Ministry's headquarters yesterday, Monday, according to a spokesman at the ministry told the media (morning), pointing out that European diplomat discussed with the Minister the draft comprehensive convention for cooperation in various sectors in preparation for approval, which will be مقد away the cooperation, trade and investment in Iraq, according to the international standards adopted in international organizations, in addition to containing paragraphs to combat terrorism and drying up the sources of financing.

For his part, Dr. new Sudanese Iraq's cooperation with the European Commission to benefit from the experiences of developed and modern states and investing in the provision of training opportunities aimed at building the capacities of its staff working in the areas of modern means of communication and the process of privatization under the social and political situation in Iraq, stressing that the Iraqi government is working to develop the private sector to assume responsibility for managing the trading process in the country after benefiting from the experiences of developed countries in this area.

Originally Posted by MrsCK

PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ

that the link that I just post on page 10 or 11 - plus posted it yesterday that the 2 top links were the only ones working - but now the bottom links are starting to work.

Hope you know somebody the can understand what they are saying.

Since it has a live feed - was hoping that someone could watch the live feed - translate for us - instead of us "waiting' for the outcome in the news.

I'll look into it...

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The appointment of 600 teachers and staff in the education of Najaf
By Haider al
Najaf - (Voices of Iraq)
An official source today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Education approved the appointment of 600 teachers and staff on the landlords General Directorate of Education in the governorate of Najaf.
He said the official spokesman for the Directorate of Educational Najaf Majid in a statement to the Sudanese News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, "the ministry approved the appointment (600) teachers and employees in various disciplines as a first for the current year 2006."
The Sudanese that "the total number submitted by the Directorate of Educational Najaf to the Ministry of Education, which included various specialties arrived in the request for the appointment of nine thousand, The appointment was approved only 600 of them Jewish first. "
He pointed out that Sudan's newly-appointed teachers and teachers to be deployed throughout Najaf (180 kilometers south of Iraq) as the existing vacancies.

Network error, can't get onto live feed. If you can record what they're saying we can get it translated later. Saying that, we'll see the reports tomorrow...