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Just try to remember it is not News reports it is rumors heading and content... Sadly the conflict comes when people start reading it as fact. or expecting it to be written as fact. Key word here is rumor. Great place to read all about them... FOR the person who felt it was unGodly to prosper I offer the prayer of Jebez and of course have to wonder why they are reading here. period... surely they do not own the evil dinars... In earlier boots on the ground from MY FaMILY MEMBER HE FOUND THEY FELT LIKE RILEY'S PEOPLE AND HAVE TRIED TO HOLD THEIR MONEY TOGETHER THE BEST THEY CAN. SO THEY CAN BENEFIT TOO.... AND THAT THEY WERE EXCITED AND HE LEFT IRAQ IN MARCH ... THEY KNEW AND WERE EXCITED THEN.. NONE OF US KNOW WHEN BUT ALL OF US WILL CELEBRATE THEN...

really makes you look sharp to put this remark in ... think about it..

ok I think that makes sense but wouldn't be nice if he just said all done I'm in hes out and here we go. Yada Yada yada RV Thanks again for the post

What stuff are you seeing from Adam. Would love his imput on this.?????

Maliki is not going to have the opportunity to show more votes that is the basis for the information now looks like it is Allawi ... No recount necessary.

MEDIC POINT WAS HE BELIEVES THAT WE ARE BACK ON TRACK AND Allawi is back in the drivers seat. Sorry the whole post would have perhaps helped. I am sure someone has poste3d it by now I did not want to post Medic with out permission.

Secret prison for Sunnis revealed in Baghdad http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,6319193.story Forces under the office of Prime Minister Maliki held hundreds of Sunnis arrested in the north at the secret facility, where prisoners say they were abused. U.S. fears news will stoke instability. By Ned Parker April 19, 2010 Reporting from Baghdad Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country's Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say. The men were detained by the Iraqi army in October in sweeps targeting Sunni groups in Nineveh province, a stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq other militant groups in northern Iraq. The provincial governor alleged at the time that ordinary citizens had been detained as well, often without a warrant. Worried that courts would order the detainees' release, security forces obtained a court order and transferred them to Baghdad where they were held in isolation. Human rights officials learned of the facility in March from family members searching for missing relatives. Revelation of the secret prison could worsen tensions at a highly sensitive moment in Iraq. As U.S. troops are withdrawing, Maliki, a Shiite, and other political officials are negotiating over the formation of a new government. Including minority Sunni Arabs is considered by many to be a key to preventing a return of widespread sectarian violence. Already there has been an increase in attacks by Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni extremist group. The alleged brutal treatment of prisoners at the facility raised concerns that the country could drift back to its authoritarian past. Commanders initially resisted efforts to inspect the prison, but relented and allowed visits by two teams of inspectors, including Human Rights Minister Wijdan Salim. Inspectors said they found that the 431 prisoners had been subjected to appalling conditions and quoted prisoners as saying that one of them, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein's army, had died in January as a result of torture. "More than 100 were tortured. There were a lot of marks on their bodies," said an Iraqi official familiar with the inspections. "They beat people, they used electricity. They suffocated them with plastic bags, and different methods." An internal U.S. Embassy report quoted Salim as saying that prisoners had told her they were handcuffed for three to four hours at a time in stress positions or sodomized. "One prisoner told her that he had been raped on a daily basis, another showed her his undergarments, which were entirely bloodstained," the memo read. Some described guards extorting the prisoners for as much as $1,000 to phone their families, the memo said. Maliki vowed to shut down the prison and ordered the arrest of the officers working there after Salim presented him with a report this month. Since then, 75 detainees have been freed and another 275 transferred to regular jails, Iraqi officials said. Maliki said in an interview that he had been unaware of the abuses. He said the prisoners had been sent to Baghdad because of concerns about corruption in Mosul. "The prime minister cannot be responsible for all the behavior of his soldiers and staff," said Salim, praising Maliki's willingness to root out abuses. Salim, a Chaldean Christian, ran for parliament in last month's elections on Maliki's Shiite-dominated list. Maliki defended his use of special prisons and an elite military force that answers only to him; his supporters say he has had no choice because of Iraq's precarious security situation. Maliki told The Times that he was committed to stamping out torture -- which he blamed on his enemies. "Our reforms continue, and we have the Human Rights Ministry to monitor this," he said. "We will hold accountable anybody who was proven involved in such acts." But Maliki's critics say the network of special military units with their own investigative judges and interrogators are a threat to Iraq's fragile democracy. They question how Maliki could not have known what was going on at the facility, and say that regardless, he is responsible for what happened there. "The prison is Maliki's becauseit's not under the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice or Ministry of Interior officially," said one Iraqi security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic. The revelations echoed those at the beginning of Iraq's sectarian war. In late 2005, the U.S. military found a secret prison in an Interior Ministry bunker where Sunnis rounded up in police sweeps were held. The latest episode, the U.S. Embassy report warned, could exacerbate tensions between Iraq's Shiite majority and Sunnis even with the facility is closed. U.S. troops already have pulled out of Iraq's cities, and Iraqi officials say U.S. influence is diminishing as the Americans focus on ending their military presence. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq is scheduled to drop by about half, to 50,000, by the end of August. The Embassy report cautioned "disclosure of a secret prison in which Sunni Arabs were systematically tortured would not only become an international embarrassment, but would also likely compromise the prime minister's ability to put together a viable government coalition with him at the helm." Maliki's main political rival, Iyad Allawi, narrowly defeated him in parliamentary elections last month. Allawi, a secular Shiite, drew on dissatisfaction in Sunni regions around central Iraq. In the interview, Maliki invited Allawi to join him in forming a new government. But news that of a secret prison that falls under the jurisdiction of the prime minister's military office could make it difficult for him to gain any Sunni partners. The controversy over the secret prison, located at the Old Muthanna airport in west Baghdad, has also pushed Maliki to begin relinquishing control of two other detentions facilities at Camp Honor, a base in Baghdad's Green Zone. The base belongs to the Baghdad Brigade and the Counter-Terrorism Force, elite units that report to the prime minister and are responsible for holding high-level suspects. Families and lawyers say they find it nearly impossible to visit the facility. The Justice Ministry is now assuming supervision of the Green Zone jails, although Maliki's offices will continue to command directly the military units. The 431 detainees brought down from Nineveh were initially held at Camp Honor. Interrogations began after they were transferred to the prison at the Old Muthanna airport. According to the U.S. Embassy report and interviews with Iraqi officials, two separate investigative committees questioned the detainees and abused them. During the day, there were interrogators from the Iraqi judiciary. In the late afternoon they came from the Baghdad Brigade. The Embassy report says that at least four of the investigators from the Baghdad Brigade are believed to have been indicted for torture in 2006. The charges against them at the time included selling Sunni Arab detainees held at a national police facility to Shiite militias to be killed. In December, the Human Rights Ministry asked the judiciary to investigate Baghdad Brigade interrogators over allegations of torture at Camp Honor, but hasn't received an answer, Iraqi officials said. With the secret facility at the old airport being shut down, and both Maliki and Salim, the human rights minister, hailing what they regard as progress, some Iraqis with knowledge of the security apparatus say they are worried that nothing will really change. One former lawmaker with great knowledge of the prime minister's security offices called for radical change in the next government. "This is the beginning. We have to hold people accountable," the former lawmaker said. "It's a cover up of torture."

Although this is not a rumor and likely should be posted in news section. It Is an interesting read. I have been watching for the words "wto" and "imf" for movement...and they were both in the same article!

Iraqi Finance emphasizes improvement in economy; experts describe their actions as "cosmetic April 16 2010 Baghdad, Iraq's Finance Ministry said on Thursday that the economic realities of the country has improved significantly over the last period, while experts say that the government's measures do not go beyond being a "prosthesis" in the context of improving the Iraqi economy to the ranks of the developed world's economies . The Finance Minister, Baqir Jabur Al-Zubaidi, said that "the last period was pivotal and important in the history of the economic reform in Iraq". Al-Zubaidi added that "his Ministry supervised on finishing an integrated plan to improve the rate of the Iraqi economy, particularly with regard to addressing the issue of inflation experienced by the country's economy," noting that "the master plan in dealing with inflation is loans which were a major breakthrough in the economy." The minister noted that "the development is also supported by the private sector in the country through the establishment of important investment projects." Iraq seeks to develop its economy through the activation of investment in the country to revive the crumbling economic infrastructure due to the long years of siege and war," he said. The economist expert, Ali Abdullah, said that: "the key step in developing the Iraqi economy is in the standardization of financial and banking system and removing of legislation which increase the chances of financial inflation in order to reach the best level of fiscal management." "It is necessary to end the economic difference between the segments of society through the establishment of an appropriate mechanism to improve the Iraqi economy reality," he added. For his part, the economy expert, Seham Fawzi, called the Finance Ministry to make a broad effort to get rid of the economic problems experienced by the country, particularly inflation. "Tackling inflation is the first step to address the economic problems that must follow the ways of global economic and benefit from international experience that went through the same economic experience that Iraq is experiencing," Fawzi said. Fawzi added that "the next stage requires reforming the tax system, protect it from the economic impacts, the issuing of laws concerning the right of safety for the consumer, and to provide jobs." The Iraqi government signed earlier this year a set of oil contracts with foreign companies, if implemented, would put Iraq in the ranks of major oil exporters in the world, in addition to providing job opportunities." The security situations, as well as the ongoing political differences in Iraq that are the most prominent challenges that stand before the advancement of the economic reality in the country, as well as the spread of financial and administrative corruption in the country. Transparency International Organization placed Iraq among the lowest transparent and most corrupt countries in the world in its annual report released last year, and showed that it ranked 176th out of 180 countries that have been subjected to the calendar ahead of Somalia, the worst corrupt countries in the world, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Sudan. The economic expert, Ali Al-Wasfi said that: "Finance Ministry failed in providing a suitable atmosphere for reforming the economic system in Iraq and that its recent attempts are just "prosthesis" attempts that are not useful in developing the Iraqi economy to what is appropriate to the economic development in the world. Economic studies have confirmed that the Iraqi economy still suffers from many problems, notably the existence of complex legislation and the lack of coordination between the economic government departments in the country. http://www.iraqupdates.com/

WELL i HOPE THIS PROVES TRUE... THEY NEED HIM.

old news been posted before on several sites

thank heaven there ARE REASONS OTHER THAN PAYMENTS FOR THE LOANS THAT ARE AND WILL DRIVE THE rv OR ri FORWARD... NEED A PM... IF WE GET THAT THEN WE CAN SEE NEXT STEP.

if this thing comes out low people are still going to be buying because they will believe again ...or for the first time that one more rumor is true... good news one day the rv or ri rumor will be true. But I am not buying if it comes out at .86 cents... selling... sure waiting now for a declaration on the PM... go dinars

We need to realize this is another attempt to block big a from assuming his elected post... They are simply saying if we can not stop you one way we will stop you another... Imo

bb$t banks ok come on not vague enough... we must not have one of those..., please what is bb&t a sandwitch....