Iraq an economic Study

Is is getting on in age.

It was good though that he was cleared of charges.

BlueEyesInLevis:
WOW

This development will put tremendous pressure on the National Alliance

to simply nominate a new leader..

and as new leader.. BINGO.. new Prime Minister.

I think it is HUGE. We should see Maliki CAVE IN.. we should see the National Alliance dump the Bg Oaf.. if they want to hang onto any semblance of position and power.
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Time to make a deal you freakin' monkeys!
YEE HAW.

I fully expect this.. along with the other events ( Shabibi cleared, Kurds and NA coming close to agreement, passage of so many laws, demonstrators chanting Maliki must go, the weak turnout in karbala, the rumours of soldiers ordered to vote for Dawa, and on and on) but this especially, to cause the National Alliance to rethink their suport of Maliki -
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My prediction is that the NA will nominate someone else as leader.. thus Maliki loses his position. There has been a LOT of talk about this before... (Remember the kurds rejected the idea of Jaafari replacing Maliki ...) but now it is clearly the easiest path for the NA to move forward and maintain some level of power... and I think the pressure will mount daily until they just DO IT.


Triple 7: This is ginormous news. Had Barzani been president this past summer maliki would already be gone, power sharing in force and Iraq eons further down the road. I have always felt and saw some articles couple of years ago that maliki has some sort of leverage over talibani, hence he has always gotten right to the point of action and then pulls away. There has been eerie silence from talibani for months so I feel the stroke has incapacitated him. This confirms my belief on this and last year this time talibani handed his letter of resignation to barzani but he refused to move foward but according to articles still has possesion of it. We know how najafi feels about maliki and maliki knows where he stands with the other 4 members of the erbil 5. This should really ratchet up the pressure to almost unbearable extremes. Should give the NA quite a bit to chomp on as well. I am so excited I can hardly breathe or type. If you have read any of my post I abhor maliki and am sickened to my core when I have to look at him. Remermber as soon as he is no longer PM he loses his immunity with the world court in the hague and he is headed for the same ending as the previous dictator.


Washington supports Barzani, president of Iraq now!

Baghdad / Orr News - Senior diplomatic source from Washington to give the White House the green light to the President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani to take over as president of the republic instead of Jalal Talabani, who is lying in a German hospital for treatment. The source said that “the White House took this action despite the rejection of a strong component of the Sunni Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.” He explained that “the Kurdish delegation that visited the United States recently made a number of demands, including the idea of Barzani’s assumption of the presidency of the Republic to surround Maliki through an agreement with Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, who also sharp disagreement with the Prime Minister.” The source pointed out that “the first action to be taken by Barzani after assuming the presidency is to withdraw confidence from the Maliki before the end of the year to prevent the next parliamentary elections which in the post of prime minister.”

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So is Barzani it now? Or is it just support for him as President?

Just support for now. This is probably just another means of putting pressure on Maliki, but they really do need to replace Talabani. He's incapacitated and has been completely useless to Iraq, and us, for a long time.

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hahahaha [link to dinarvets.com]

This can't possibly mean tomorrow is the wrap up meeting that results in implementation of something, can it? They never implement anything. Surely, this is just another meeting to schedule further meetings, right? I refuse to get my hopes up anymore for anything these people do, but damn, I like the way this sounds.



[link to www.kurdsat.tv]

Khalid Shwani: tomorrow there will be a meeting to resolve the problems between Baghdad and Erbil

2013-04-12 15:48:10


The head of the Legal Committee of the Parliament of Iraq that efforts continue to resolve the existing problems between Baghdad and Erbil in the light of meetings two days that took place between the delegation Kurdish and Iraqi Prime Minister and heads a list of the National Alliance in Baghdad.
in a statement to Kordsat said Khalid Shwani President Legal Committee of the Parliament of Iraq , said there is a meeting tomorrow to complete endeavors.

Sounds like they already had 2 days of meetings and this is a wrap up.

Well, then, we should see an Erbil Agreement implemented this weekend, right?

One would think! uhhhhh.... this is Iraq though!

Yep. They'll probably just schedule another meeting for June of next year.

Now, the protesters want Maliki dead. They take their freedom of speech seriously over there, it seems.




Friday sermon gray: Antalib topple Maliki, but his execution

He told the Friday sermon Square sit-in Ramadi Sheikh Qusai Zein We to Antalib bring down Prime MinisterNuri al-Maliki, but ask him to death. He Zein during a speech Friday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has gone in the darkness and bloodshed and the continuing series of killings and displacement on identity because Maliki and those who stand behind their sectarian government lien must execution Maliki for his crimes against humanity and and fight and kill each of the object to the policy. .


He Zein said Maliki allowed Iran to interfere in Iraqi affairs and kill people and steal wealth but gone Maliki more than that through the support and allowing the smuggling of weapons and fighters from Iran to Syria to kill the Syrian people and its support to the tyrant of another Bashar al-Assad for sectarian reasons large..

He Zein during Friday prayers that protesters and demonstrators in Anbar and other provinces Almentvdh continue to sit and legitimate demands until meet those demands and respond to them without being neglected part or another paragraph, despite our conviction that the government is working in procrastination and delay in implementation.

. Anbar and Matsamu systems review tribal ensure the enter tribal processions in Square sit-in crane placards denouncing the policies of the government and demanding the release of detainees. And raised the processions which represented the families of Baghdad, Anbar, Mosul, Samarra and Diyala banners and pictures embody the era of the Iraqi resistance at the time of the American occupation.

[link to translate.googleusercontent.c...B9kiPYleiGwINw]

Doesn't look too good for Maliki in the upcoming elections!

Re: Erbil/Baghdad article:

"Folks this is a MAJOR HINT about resolving the Erbil Agreement, article 140 and whatever else that NEEDS TO BE DONE.

Remember there has been a Kurdish delegation in DC since last weekend & are still there & a Kurdish delegation of 6 meeting in Baghdad with 3 going back and forth to meet with Barzani.. just thinking out loud here. Why would you go back and forth from Baghdad to Kurdistan to report to Barzani when you could do it on the phone or are they taking legal agreements with them that requires Barzani’s signature ??????"
~ Street

hmmm... makes sense!

No link, but if true, could be a game changer. Or, could just be Maliki faking it to get out of signing whatever was negotiated with the Kurds.


Urgent: Move Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the city of Medicine

Date: Saturday 13/04/2013 03:41 pm



A source in the prime minister shortly before the transfer of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to a hospital in Baghdad's Medical City, pointing out that he is subject to medical attention focused under the supervision of a specialized Iraqi medical team integrated.


The source close to Prime Minister's advisor Sadiq al-Rikabi Saturday afternoon that: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was transferred to the intensive care unit at a private hospital located within the medical complex for the city of Medicine in Baghdad, stressing that if Maliki critical, said an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is suffering from health crisis sharply denied that background news that are talked about Attorney Haitham al-Jubouri decline ratio of voters to State of Law coalition in the special voting that began this Saturday,
and was MP for the coalition of state law occur statements about the existence of violations in the special voting blaming the election law and the Office of electoral responsibility decline in the proportion of the vote

Read more: [link to dinarvets.com]

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Anybody ever seen a Saturday auction before?

[link to dinarvets.com]

geez... drama queen!

Where's this coming from Alex? (Please don't say Blaino)



By the way, calin, that Maliki-in-ICU article was from Chakooch News. They've fooled me twice before, so I'm calling BS. One time, they said Maliki was a Baath, Iranian double agent back in the day.

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What does it all mean.... ?

So who reads Iraqi?

Ok...Maliki probably is just fine!

[link to www.alzawra.com]

Sources from within the prime minister told the Shatt al-Arab confidential information and serious concern a meeting between a delegation from the Iraqi government delegation from the Turkish government and US-sponsored in the British capital London.

Sources said that the United States has brokered a secret between the two governments as a prelude to the implementation of the oil project strategically, alter the features of alliances in the region in favor of Axis U.S..

, the sources added that the delegation of the Iraqi government form of bilateral Faleh al-Fayad, National Security Advisor and Dr. Tarek Najm Special Political Adviser to the Prime Minister.

delegation met the Iraqi delegation Turkish high-level empowered the Turkish government to negotiate and problem of three people Qrepien of Erdogan.

Sources said that the meeting was supposed to be in Washington, but to preserve the confidentiality, transfer to the British capital London.
and meetings lasted for three consecutive days.

Sources said that the two sides تباحثا and desire an American on a project to extend oil pipelines from South Iraq and across the city of Ceyhan Turkish Europe and convert 80% of Iraq's oil exports through these pipes.
noted that Iraq was now only 20% of its oil via Ceyhan Turkish.

sources revealed that the United States has warned Iraq of probability close the Strait of Hormuz in the near future and thus depriving Iraq of exporting oil through the strait, preferring to accelerate the D pipeline via Ceyhan Turkish prevent any incident and to ensure the availability of Iraqi oil in the world markets.

, the sources added that the United States has advised Maliki remove tensions with the Turkish government and hold strategic partnership with benefit both parties and mitigate the crises in the region, as a prelude to changing alliances Iraq towards America's friends in the region.

Sources said that al-Maliki will remove the current tension with Turkey after the elections and will also settling internal conflicts with the Kurds and Sunnis politically, in preparation for a third term.




PA10:
Very interesting. If 80% of IRAQ oil moves through pipelines across Turkey, the threat of Iran disrupting Iraq oil movement through the strait of Hormuz would be all but squelched. Also very interesting that 'Sources say' Maliki will remove 'the current tension' with Turkey 'after' the elections along with settling internal conflicts with the Kurds and Sunnis politically - in preparation for a 'third' term. I wonder who the sources are? I assume Maliki has been stalling all along in order to leverage US support for his re-election. Maliki has had plenty of time to deal with the Kurds and Sunnis. The UN has empowered the US and Great Britain to 'manage' Iraq oil production so ultimately the pipeline deal will be force fed one way or the other. It's one thing to have oil, but you have to be able to move it to the market 'securely' in order to convert it to cash. I think this is a key component towards underpinning the oil dominated Iraq economy and subsequently, the value and long term stability of the Dinar.

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I'm leaving this up, but it now looks like they got Mutlaq's son and two brothers, and not Mutlaq himself.

[Diyala - where]

Assassinated a candidate for the list, Saleh al-Mutlaq in Diyala province on Sunday when a roadside bomb targeted his convoy in the province. "

The security source said told all of Iraq [where] that "an explosive device was planted on the roadside bomb targeted the convoy of a candidate in the provincial list, Saleh al-Mutlaq in Diyala military star killing him on the spot."

"The security force rushed to the scene and transported the victim's body to the forensic medicine department.

The military is the head of the national dialogue in the Diyala provincial council, led by Deputy Prime Minister had achieved the first rank among the candidates for the Iraqi List in Diyala after results showed counting earning more than [14] thousand votes in the provincial elections took place in 2009 and in February 7, 2010 arrested a security force under the Ministry of Interior with two of his bodyguards after raided force of his house in Muqdadiya in Diyala province on charges of involvement terrorist acts in the province and two years after the spell in prison authorities released security in Diyala on August 8 last 2012

He said at the time that the process of release of war candidate list Saleh al-Mutlaq came under a rapprochement between the latter and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, especially after the withdrawal of al-Maliki request of the House of Representatives judge to withdraw confidence from Mutlaq and submitted after the dispute broke out between them on the back of charge-Mutlaq of the owners b "dictator."

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Finance Committee Member: CBI will start measures of deletion of zeros from currency during the current year
Posted: April 13, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
Tags: Baghdad, Central bank, Central Bank Iraq, Currency, exchange rate, Hard currency, International Monetary Fund, Iraq, Iraqi dinar, United States dollar
Parliamentary Finance: Central Bank starts this year … 13/04/2013 2:18 pm

said parliamentary Finance Committee, the central bank, according to correspondences official start of this year procedures deleting three zeros from the local currency, saying that it would lead to the development of cash transactions and economic international.

A member of the Finance Committee Abdul Hussein al-Yasiri Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) It “According Almkhtabat official with the central bank, it is supposed to start this year Balastaadadt necessary to delete three zeros from the local currency.”

and noted that “the local currency will reduce from four billion units to one billion units which will make there Anciabh in the process of the transfer of currency.”

and between Yasiri that “the Finance Committee supports changes to the local currency because of the importance of the country’s economic.”

The central bank says that the deletion of zeros comes within the plan for the development of monetary policy and the reform of currency management.

and was a member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Haitham al-Jubouri, had said in an earlier statement to him that “replacement currency and delete Ocefarha will features the best and the biggest decrease of the volume of inflation and revive the dinar due to lack of demand for the dollar, which comes positive aspects significant to the economy of the country, and replaced revive economy Alibd but needs political environment and economic environment for the implementation of the project without facing any obstacles lead to the deterioration of the currency Iraqi “was the Iraqi Central Bank has pointed out last August that plans to delete the zeros from the Iraqi dinar to facilitate financial transactions made through cash in most cases.

Among the difficulties faced by Iraq if they are to foot the deletion of zeros from the dinar is withdrawn about 30 trillion dinars in circulation in the Iraqi market, then discarded and replaced with a new currency

[link to DON'T_USE-THIS]

LapDog update:

I HAD A 2 1/2 HOUR TEL CONVERSATION WITH MY CONTRACTOR IN BAGHDAD TODAY. I AM ENDING TODAY WITH AN EMAIL HE SENT ME YESTERDAY. THIS PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.

RIGHT NOW --- IT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE CHAPTER 7 IS CRITICAL. WE ARE PARALIZED UNTIL CHAPTER IS LIFTED.

From: Tony XXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 10:15 AM
To: Bionic Dog
Subject: The Smoke is clearing......lots of smoke

Dog,

Please see the article below. I am beginning to understand why there was a Wall Street manipulated GOLD panic. There is true fear for the Dollar on Wall Street. It is actually the US FIAT Dollar that is under attack. As more, and more countries move to do currency swaps with China, less countries will be trading using the US FIAT Dollar. Now France makes the move... This will pressure the Bond Market (Even less foreign investment), forcing a rise in interest rates, increasing the velocity of currency, setting off a heated rise in inflation, further Dollar devaluation, and even more printing... It appears they may be kicking off the US Dollar end game. GOLD may bounce back over the next week. Hard to tell right now.

When we have so much debt, almost a quadrillion in derivatives, currency devaluation, bubble markets, increased printing, no yield bonds, etc., etc., GOLD is going to go through the roof within an 18 month span. Now France has joined in on the attack against the dollar. Unless there is a reset. We need Chap 7…..Unless Iraq Revals... Timing is everything. Nothing is as it seems... It’s a colossal mess over here…….I'll Call you today........or asap.


France plans currency swap line with China: paper



BEIJING | Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:44pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - France intends to set up a currency swap line with China to make Paris a major offshore yuan trading hub in Europe, competing against London, the China Daily on Saturday cited Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer as saying.

Yuan deposits in Paris amount to 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), making it the second largest pool for the Chinese currency in Europe after London. Almost 10 percent of Sino-French trade is settled in yuan, also called the renminbi or RMB, according to French data cited by the official newspaper.

"The Bank of France has been working on ways to develop a RMB liquidity safety net in the euro area with due consideration of a supporting currency swap agreement with the People's Bank of China," Noyer told the English-language newspaper.

The yuan's internationalization and bilateral financial cooperation could be among the main topics during French President Francois Hollande's visit to China in late April, the paper said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius paid a two-day visit to Beijing this week.

The planned swap line would be the latest in a string of bilateral currency agreements that China has signed in the past three years to promote use of the yuan in trade and investment.

It followed a similar step by the Bank of England to set up a reciprocal three-year yuan-sterling swap line with China.

Britain, always anxious to maintain London's status as Europe's biggest financial center, launched an offshore yuan currency and bond market to great fanfare last year.

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Iraq participates in meetings of the IMF and the World Bank

04/13/2013 Baghdad morning's New

Headed by Dr. Abdel Basset Turki Saeed Chairman of the Board of Supreme Audit Federal and Governor of the Central Bank and Agency, and a senior delegation to New York and Washington, to participate in the regular spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which kicked off on Saturday. The delegation will be several meetings with the competent authorities, on the sidelines of these meetings, to discuss the economic and financial reforms and cash in the Arab world, and will follow the financial crisis and its consequences on the major economies.


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Kaperoni:
I hate to speculate, but this appears to be a "marching orders" meeting. We may very well see Turki return and execute his plan. Sure hope so anyway.

Revbo:
Kap, if I may ask, what makes you think that this is a "marching orders" meeting? Don't they have these IMF meetings every year?

Kaperoni:
Yes, but they mention the "sideline meetings." IMO, It sure seems that they lining up them duckies.

tlar from a different thread:
Thank you admin Bob. That's alot of articles that are coming out. I think the bank is serious and means business. They are going to get this done. Turki is in washington meeting with the powers to be. He is receiving his marching orders. The difference this time as opposed to takinjg orders from Maliki, is he agrees with the plan and see's the benifits, and knows what this can do for Iraq. He's come to realize that what is good for Maliki is not what is good for Iraq. I beleive he is also being offered support and protection by the US. Obama has to know that if this gets done it will resolve so many issues at once. Issues like counterfietng, smuggling and corruption. If the CBI can just follow through, this will impact the economy and all Iraqi citizens because it is the "right" thing to do. Not to mention what it will do to spur the world economy and shore up currencies world wide.

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What's up with this? CBI just issued a 5 dinar coin, made out of gold. The face value of this gold coin is about half a cent.

And chalk up my first fail in all this (Well, official fail anyway. There have been plenty of fails). Looks like my April 15 thing didn't pan out so well. I'm gonna leave the guru-ing to the gurus from now on.


Five golden dinars currency on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi army

[link to translate.googleusercontent.com]

15-04-2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -

N. agency publishes news reporting archival image of a gold coin five dinars issued by the Central Bank on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi army

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Kaperoni update:
The CBI (Turki and others) is in Washington and New York in annual meetings all week. Nothing will happen during these meetings.

More announcements or articles should come out to create “awareness” for the Iraq’s.

Today’s opening of the optical cable connecting Iraq to the world is a huge step. IMO, the CBI will benefit first with this real time connectivity. Check that off the list.

Laws are still on the table because Parliament is on break till after the elections. I think they come back on the 23rd of April and will work until May 15th. That period of time will be interesting to see if they can get all the laws passed.

First part of May an economic conference is scheduled in London. This is IMO a final tune up to tweak laws or get a consensus on what needs to be done to open up the free market economy.

May 23rd, DFI funds are fair game. Look for the CBI to act before then hopefully raising or beginning to raise the value of the dinar. If all goes well, we should be very close come May 15th.

Article is from last year, but still, very interesting. Wonder why there hasn't been more talk of this.

[link to www.bullionstreet.com]

According to Iraq's mineral ministry, country's western desert contains huge reserves of gold and likely platinum and diamond resereves.


LONDON(BullionStreet): After decades of sanctions, war and sectarian violence, Iraq is struggling to maintain it's economy and looking forward to increase gold production along with oil and natural gas.

According to Iraq's mineral ministry, country's western desert contains huge reserves of gold and likely platinum and diamond resereves.

The Iraqi government recently announced a 30 year economic plan for mines and minerals by granting production licenses to foreign mining companies.

The Iraqi government is thus hopeful that gold mining can be an increasingly profitable venture for the country.

However, official gold trade in the country remained in doldrums as Iraq's banking sector required proper training and guidance from foreign banks, analysts said.

Iraq's northern neighbor Turkey offered to support country's banking sector in gold trade.

Turkish Banks Association (TBB) said the Turkish banking industry, which developed new ways of bringing in individual gold savings to the economy, will train Iraqi bankers on how to trade with gold.

The scope of the training will be determined depending on the demand stated by the Iraqi government. The TBB has started a study in regards to the training, which will take place in Baghdad and Erbil following a recent visit by an Iraqi delegation of the Federation of Private Banks to Turkey.

Analysts said Turkey has carried out important studies in trading gold, which is a significant saving tool in Iraq, and we want to benefit from Turkey's experience.

TBB has provided training to countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina and has also been working on training programs for Syria and Lebanon.

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