Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 28/03/10 - 21/06/10

Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani: Attacking the Iraqi Central Bank a desperate attempt to paralyze the government economically

A member of a coalition of law Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani, Attacking the Iraqi Central Bank by some criminals is nothing but a desperate attempt to paralyze the government economically.

The criminal group differed actors mechanism of an identification number has attacked the Iraqi Central Bank in the commercial Al-Rasheed Street in central Baghdad.

He said al-Hassani, in contact with the agency, the independent press (Iba) The criminal act, this was not an act arbitrarily with the purpose of stealing money, but rather than higher, choose the place which is the commercial center of Iraq.

The Baghdad Operations Command announced that it had been on the Elimination of all attackers, who are 7 people in military uniforms.

He said al-Hassani, there is the possibility that al Qaeda is behind this work to strike Iraq economically and financially and to create a negative atmosphere of the economic situation in Iraq, noting that addressing the firm's security forces foiled an act of criminal plot harvest what they can achieve.

And resulted in killing 15 people and wounded 60 others were different and damage some of the buildings hit the bank and civilian facilities nearby.

http://www.ipairaq.com/index.php?nam...itics&id=26628

Iraq seeking more loans and grants to ‘buttress’ the budget

The Finance Ministry says it is seeking more loans and grants to ensure that it can cover expenditures, particularly the salaries of public sector employees.

Imad al-Naib, Director-General of the ministry’s Accountancy Department, did not say how much the salaries of public sector personnel cost the government a year. However, they are believed to devour a substantial sum of the country’s oil revenues.

Iraq has a large public sector, which includes the army and security organs. It is by far the country’s largest employer.

“Loans are very important for Iraq to buttress the budget and provide resources to spend on operational expenditures and salaries across the offices run by the state,” Naib said. “Loans make additional income available for the treasury.”

Iraq relies almost solely on oil revenues for its hard currency earnings, but latest gyrations in oil prices are said to have added to budget strains.

“We are looking forward to obtaining more loans … mainly from donor countries,” Naib said.

He said Iraq has already received $440 million as the first installment of a $3.6 billion loan from the Monetary Fund.

Naib said the rest of the money should be ferried to the central bank by the end of 2011.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index...06-14\kurd.htm

Iraq VP points out to constitutional gap

Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi said the fact that executive officials did not take the constitutional oath constitutes by itself a constitutional gap.

In a letter addressed to head of the Supreme Federal Court and Parliament Speaker, Abdul Mehdi explained that not taking constitutional oath is believed to be an effective gap.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...ional-gap.html

Oil prices fluctuation will not affect Iraq budget

Iraq Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani said that the daily fluctuation in oil prices is ordinary adding that oil market is generally stable. However, the ups and downs in the prices are not expected to affect Iraq budget which relies on crude oil exports, he said. The current prices are acceptable for Iraq, Shahristani added.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Economics...aq-budget.html

The arrest of several suspects carrying out the attack, which targeted the Central Bank in Baghdad

Baghdad Operations Command announced the formation of a committee to investigate the circumstances of the attack on the central bank in Baghdad, killing 18 people and injuring about 55 others injured.

The spokesman for the Baghdad operations command Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta to the arrest of several suspects in the operation, noting that security authorities have asked the bank to provide tapes cameras outside the bank to identify the perpetrators.

Atta and likely in a radio interview the possible complicity of some officials of the Bank and the protection of employees with the executing party, pointing out that the results of the investigation will reveal more details about it.

On the background of the incident to storm the Central Bank on Sunday, Baghdad has seen Monday for more stringent security measures and widespread significant of the army and police in most neighborhoods and streets of the capital.

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U.S. troops hold a press conference in Baghdad on withdrawal from Iraq

Held U.S. forces in Iraq on Monday held a press conference addressed the issue of transfer and delivery of rules and of U.S. military equipment for the Iraqi army in preparation for a U.S. pullout from the country.

A spokesman for U.S. forces Gen. Stephen Lanza The process of transfer and delivery of the equipment and rules of the American troops stationed in Iraq and the closure of these rules, comes as part of the actions taken by the U.S. to complete its withdrawal from Iraq by end of 2011, confirming that it will hand over part of such equipment to the Iraqi government.

The Lanza that the United States withdraw its troops in Iraq fully by December 2011, and U.S. troops closed many of the rules and delivered others to the Iraqi government, noting that Washington has become uncertain about the ability of Iraqi security forces to assume security responsibilities.

In turn, the Director of the engineering team in the U.S. Army Brigadier General Kendall Cox said U.S. forces had taken steps to dispose of hazardous wastes to the environment in its military bases for handover to the Iraqis, and stressed that the United States will be responsible for ensuring the safety environment at sites of U.S. military bases.

The Director of Logistics for U.S. Army Brigadier General Gustave Perna it will transfer some equipment, military bases to the Ministries of Interior and Defense, adding that the U.S. military will remain on a number of equipment for use on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

It is worth mentioning that American troops had since the beginning of this year and hand over 113 to close a military base to the Iraqi government.

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Saudi king meets with Gen. Odierno

Met the top U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. Raymond T. I yearn and his accompanying delegation in Jeddah with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.

During the meeting, according to what reported the Saudi Press Agency last night exchanged views on the current situation in the region and the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al Faisal, Vice-Chairman of the National Guard for Executive Affairs Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and a number of officials in addition to the ambassadors in Riyadh and Washington.

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Newspaper: «Iraq» prevented a Word Talabani in the first session of Parliament

She explained that Maliki Grave willing during the deliberations کانت on the eve of the opening of the meeting, that the president will give کلمته, لکن reservation «Iraq» came against the backdrop of a sense of convergence between Maliki and the coalition outlawed, and the objections of some leaders of the Iraqi National List to take Talabani session of the second term.

However, the former House Speaker Iyad al-Samarrai said that اشکالات بروتوکولیة prevented Talabani attend the opening session of parliament.

This was attended by foreign ambassadors, and the Arabs, and Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN Ad میلکرت, and the representative of the Arab League Nagy Shalgam, clerics, and personalities, and leaders of the tribes.

The statement said the attention directed toward the Sadrists (40 seats), who threatened to throw Ambassador الامیرکی کریستوفر Hill shoes, if you attended the meeting. لکن did not happen like that, despite the presence of Ambassador of the meeting.

The session witnessed a handshake between rival Ayad Allawi, Nuri al-Maliki.

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The presence of Barham Salih, starting working conference (investment in Kurdistan) in London

The presence of Prime Minister Barham Saleh and the seven ministers, 16 advisers and a number of general managers and senior traders Kurdistan region, in addition to a group of leading British companies, starts on Tuesday the conference of the Economic and Trade for the Kurdistan region in the UK in London, organized by the Kurdistan Regional Government in collaboration with the British government in order to support and develop the economy of Kurdistan, encourage investment.

The KRG delegation headed by Barham Salih, Prime Minister of the Government of the Territory and his accompanying delegation arrived in London on Monday, where the delegation was received by the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Britain, Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the acting and the Iraqi embassy in Britain.

The delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Karim Sinjari, Minister of Interior, Sinan Celebi Minister of Trade and Industry, and Jamil Suleiman, Minister of Agriculture, Falah Mustafa, foreign relations chief, and a number of government officials in the region.

Is scheduled to continue investment conference, your province of Kurdistan on 1516 this month, attended by representatives of trade in a number of countries and the participation of high-level delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government in London.

And adviser to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Kurdistan Regional Government Fathi Mohammed, He explained, "Nechirvan Barzani, the president line-fifth the Kurdistan Regional Government had decided to hold this conference on trade and investment in London, but delayed a conference."

He added it was "Now that preparations for the conference For this purpose a delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government led by Prime Minister Barham Saleh and the membership of seven ministers, 16 advisers and a number of general managers and senior traders Kurdistan to Britain to participate in the economic conference and trade for the Kurdistan region in Britain."

For his part, said Dara Jalil Khayat Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Erbil that "a group of leading British companies, known in various fields participated in the conference, as well as wholesale governorates of the Kurdistan region and the available investment opportunities for the implementation of a diverse portfolio in the region are displayed on these companies and urge them to come to the Kurdistan region to invest in it."

The conference aims to enhance the level of attention and investment in the Kurdistan region, as well as to urge foreign companies to invest in the region, as well as to find an opportunity to identify Chambers of Commerce and Industry for the Kurdistan region with those in the world.

And interested in the Kurdistan region for years sector investment and attempts to bring the companies to invest in the region.

And the transfer of the website of the Conference of Dr. Barham Saleh said that "the Kurdistan Regional Government welcomes the international companies wishing to invest in the region and supporting the private sector and the Government of the region seeking to improve trade prospects and make them more suitable for investment by the day, and this would make the region a center of trade and reconstruction, and a gateway to all parts of Iraq."

Witnessing a region, economic activity and a broad, accompanied by influx of large global corporations to start investments in it, where observers believe that the main causes of demand for foreign companies to Kurdistan is the security and political stability prevailing in it, along with attempts by provincial government to encourage investment, is to activate the investment law of most of these attempts impact on the movement of trade and attract foreign capital.

It is noteworthy that the 1200 are a foreign company investing in the Kurdistan region, adding that these investments include various aspects of economic development.

The Director General of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Kurdistan Regional Government, Aziz Ibrahim said, "The foreign companies are investing their money in coordination with the merchants and owners of capital in the region, as there are companies working on their own without partnering with other parties within the region" .. He pointed out that "the number of companies officially registered with the Ministry of Commerce reached 1200 companies."

Ibrahim explained that "This, if anything, it indicates the development of the sector of the economy and investment in the province of Kurdistan."


http://www.theiraqweekly.com/inp/view.asp?ID=12397

Source: perpetrators of robbery, the central bank «steamed» capturing one of them did not

A source close to the ongoing investigations of the robbery suffered by the Central Bank of Iraq on the first Sunday, the security force that restored the building did not find any trace of the assailants, but found five bodies belonging to the suicide bombers blew themselves up, but the intensity of the fire indicate that the number of militants was the biggest much.

The attempt to storm the Central Bank and the consequent clashes lasted several hours, the first of its kind in the targeting of this institution monetary giant, over the past years, which caused surprise by the success of insurgents in major breakthrough for the heavily fortified to prevent the passage of vehicles near.

The source said the "world", preferring the anonymity of the sensitivity of the information given by that "doubts about the existence of a collusion by staff at the bank with members of the gang that attacked him," explaining that "What supports this theory is the disappearance of any trace of the members of the gang stormed the building, as well as for the outbreak of fire in the floors elected and carefully selected from the bank, includes sensitive documents."

The source noted that "the conditions of the process does not suggest a motive of theft, but there is vandalism." "The form of the process confirm the involvement of a large number of people, but the bodies are found only five, which is confirmed for the aggressors to the help of staff within the bank before it easier for them to escape."

For his part, said a source familiar with another, that the Division, which has been particularly affected in the incident on Sunday, specifically to combat money laundering and related to their "illegal loans with banks civil war."

He explained that the rooms that have been bombed and burned during the process, "kept by the Central Bank documents related to money laundering, banking and credit," adding that among the documents that burned "group for trading illegal loans and open involvement by government officials with some private banks during the previous period".

But a source at the Central Bank said the "world" that the bank "retains backup copies of all documents, including those that were damaged during the incident Sunday."

A spokesman for the Baghdad operations command Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said on Monday that "investigations relating to the operation failed terrorist gang which tried to implement in the building of the Iraqi Central Bank said on Sunday that led to the attackers were wearing military uniforms."

And the transfer of the National Centre for Information of the Council of Ministers, for Atta as saying that "the latest developments in the investigation proved that a member of the terrorist gang that tried to storm the bank had held the rank of captain, accompanied by a person holding the rank of lieutenant, and the third holds the rank of lieutenant, while wearing the rest of the gang members dress troops".

He pointed out that "the forensic and explosives have been working on Sunday to prepare reports on the quality of the explosives used and the fingerprints lifted from the site of the attack and determine the identities and the things the attacker's identity."

He added that "the committee investigating the cause of the attack on a block of the Central Bank reached, through intelligence information, to identify the points, from which the aggressors, as well as unquantifiable."

The Baghdad Operations Command announced that the final figure for the number of victims of abuse long bank building is 18 killed and 55 wounded, 44 of them left the hospital after receiving treatment

Atta said that "the total number of martyrs, including two policemen, civil defense, two members of the Facilities Protection Service (FPS), while the toll includes martyrs, wounded six of civil defense and 13 wounded men, the (FPSO) and five military personnel, including the commander of a brigade band 43 band 11 in the army, who led a purge of the elements of the bank the gang attacked him."

He revealed that "the attempt carried out by the terrorist gang for control of the bank were on the four stages." "The first phase was the explosive device was detonated near the fuel tank, electric generator at the entrance outside of the Central Bank."

"The second phase consisted in fighting the aggressors with force to protect the entrance outside of the bank included a bombing of the attacker himself," explaining that "the third phase was the arrival of the attackers to the courtyard of the Bank's internal and detonate suicide bombers blew themselves up at the door of procedure of the Bank and the attack force that protects the back entrance of his".

He pointed out that "the fourth and final phase was the entry of a number of militants into the bank buildings and setting fire to a number of floors."

Atta said that "the force, which has cleared the bank was led by commando regiment band 11 and the Sixth Division reconnaissance company, were given the force's Regiment, the Anti-terrorism."

The spokesman said the Baghdad Operations Command that the high-level committee headed by Minister of National Security was set up to investigate the circumstances of the incident, saying that the committee began to examine the content of the video surveillance tapes of the Central Bank of Iraq.

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