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

Originally Posted by readytogo

Just got off the phone with Lucky Duck. We have a mutual friend who is also an investor in the dinar. He and a few other heavy investors had a conference call yesterday afternoon. They were talking with someone who is in the know concerning Iraq and the dinar. This source said the reason the dinar was not r/v'd at end of August is because the decided value of $1.20 was change to around the $1.50 mark. A law has to be read 3 times before passed and because the amount was changed the law was changed also and the readings had to start over. The first had been read twice already. He did not think it would happen over this weekend but did feel it would happen within two weeks time. He admitted that anything could happen.

This is all I know until I am able to talk to my friend first hand and Lucky Duck will fix what I missed latter when she can post.

Sorry Mods. I thought I was in the rumor thread. Move it if you need to.

I would get shot if I moved this one.

Originally Posted by Trapper t

Wow Sunday could be the big day!!!
Great Luck to all

See the Countdown Clock Lower Left Corner of My Siggy.

got this from somewhere else, making a big deal about it can anyone translate. or is it just old news

AlSharqiya TV tle=

Copied from SafeDinar:

Iraq's Sunni tribes fight Al-Qaeda

9/29/2006

by Paul SchemmFri Sep 29, 10:16 AM ET

Western Iraq's powerful sheikhs have launched an offensive against foreign Al-Qaeda extremists on their territory, they have said, in an important victory for the US-backed government.

"The operation is on!" said Sheikh Abdel Sattar Baziya, head of the Abu Risha clan and chair of the Anbar province tribal council.

"The sons of Anbar's tribes today captured three Saudis, two Syrians and three Iraqi teenagers and turned them over to police," he told AFP Friday.

This is not the first time that Anbar province's Sunni tribes have pledged to turn over the Sunni insurgents in their midst, but US officers are privately delighted that they now seem to be making good on their promise.

The supposed leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Muhajer, tacitly confirmed this Thursday in an Internet plea for Iraqi tribesmen to rejoin his forces in their battle with the "infidels".

"I tell those who stood by the betrayers and sold out their religion and honor in this blessed month: today we offer you a full amnesty," he said, inadvertently revealing the effectiveness of the new tribal coalition.

Anbar province's fractious tribes have in the past often assured US forces that they could take care of the Sunni extremists and foreign fighters ravaging the desert province -- thus far to little effect.

Baziya told AFP that they had lost their patience with the "killing and corruption in the province which is unequalled in the rest of the world".

On Wednesday, the tribes met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and agreed to cooperate on security in lawless Anbar, the province which accounts for the majority of US casualties in Iraq.

"We agreed to enroll as many of the tribesmen in the police and army as possible," said Baziya. "We proposed to the government projects to save the province."

US military officials are careful not to damage the tribal leaders' credibility by publicly hailing their contribution, but are privately crowing about the alliance which they say has already made a difference.

While US forces in Ramadi have declined the tribes' request for more arms, they do welcome their members into the Iraqi police.

Baziya gave a litany of Al-Qaeda crimes in Anbar, including robbing banks, driving out humanitarian organizations, killing journalists, preying on travelers and interrupting oil supplies.

According to Captain Travis Patriquin of the 1st Armored Division, stationed in Ramadi and involved in talks with the tribes, what really tipped the scale, however, was the assassination of a tribal sheikh in August.

"Their decision to confront those who don't want any good for Anbar province evokes the admiration and appreciation of all Iraqis," said the prime minister after Wednesday's meeting.

There was similar excitement in government and coalition circles in December when a similar tribal council came together and made similar promises to oppose as Al-Qaeda and sending recruits into the police services.

That particular alliance received a massive blow in January when a suicide bomber killed 70 tribal police recruits in Ramadi and was finally put to rest when one by one the more vocal tribal leaders were intimidated or killed.

Recruits to the police forces evaporated, Al-Qaeda returned in force and violence soon hit new levels.

"These initiatives have failed to date because of the tribes' unreliability and ambivalence," Peter Harling, an expert on Anbar's tribes with the International Crisis Group, told AFP at the time.

Coalition forces in Anbar, however, are convinced that this time is for real with a new, more aggressive US army unit now in Ramadi and many more Iraqi troops, said Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Salas, the marine public affairs officer in Anbar, who described it as "irreversible momentum".

One coalition intelligence official said that the difference now is that the tribesmen realize that they cannot confront Al-Qaeda on their own.

He too, however, acknowledged the fickle nature of Anbar's tribes, which tend to put their own interests well above those of any particular nation or ideal.

"Let's face it, there are Anbar tribes that are settling old scores. There are Anbar guys who are basically looking to re-establish order," he said.

"There are folks who are out there basically looking to basically rearm themselves for a variety of purposes," he added. "The motivations here are not pure and you've got to work your way through this process."

Iraq's Sunni tribes fight Al-Qaeda - Source

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Good for them!!!

Now let's get this thing done and spread the REAL good news!!

ARCH, I posted it a few pages back in this thread or reval before october 1st thread.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

jabor is the new one.

Is this why I did not know him?! Don't feel so stupid now!

Hey Neno,
Since Rolclub came back online after the hack/crash/burn the time has been all squankas (screwed up). Is there anyway to reset it? for instance - my time is now 5:30 pacific time - but the time of the most recent post says 12:29 a.m. It's driving me batty. HELP!

Adjust this in your User Control Panel....

Under "Edit Options" scroll way down.... set time zone...

Originally Posted by neno

See the Countdown Clock Lower Left Corner of My Siggy.

Shouldn't the countdown clock be Baghdad Time? It'd 09/30/05 4:38 am
right now.

Originally Posted by cigarman

Yea, I got so mad about my gut being wrong I lost 20 pounds of it. lol

Hey c-man, don't lose too much of it. I always did like what your gut was saying!