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No shooting... I talked with friend with the WHO... there is / has been a rumor / propoganda by the Bathh party to some Iraqi's and teh religion that the "US tainted dinar is temporary... Iaqi Gold and oil will show the path of the rightous and the government and money would carry the symbol of the new iraq" blah blah blah... propoganda from some Saddam loyalists spreading words / fears, including some from Al-Queda
according to the physicians the people want America to go away because we are seen as the enemy of the extremist and the average Joe Iraqi... the one physician who is more in kurdistan.. says the people are holding the NID when they can... the dollar, the euro, the jordan money (?) is the real popular items for savings... unfotunately that is what people are trading with to get medicine etc...
But then again it is Iraq... so you never know... but talking with the people over there ... they want to survive, and the businesses are trying to avoid bombs and kidnapping... I am not anyone special... but I believe that the propoganda got to the friend of a friend.
Linus