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Fox reported that Allawi would join Maliki HOURS after we already knew it!

YEP GMT +3

Of all relics Mesopotamian, that should be the last one to be displayed in a museum.

That would be vurry nice...

What is the significance of number 7?

It's a lot to them, I bet.

I guess if you can't prove you had it longer than a year, you have to pay short term cap gains.

I doubt it will change me. I will squirrel away a good bit, give some to loved ones who won't squander it, and then what? I'm pretty happy with what I have, not being an extravagant person. I'm sure I'll still drive my car til the wheels fall off, take a few trips, but I don't think it will change my goals much. I'm thinking of this coming in at a modest rate. At a huge rate? Same thing... I refuse to get carried away with large amounts of money. Oh and another thing. I only told a few people about the investment and that's the best measure of security IMO.

I bet when it comes down to it, and if it RVs at ten cents or whatever, people would take it and be happy. Happier than they would have been with nothing, anyway! Sure, I dream big as far as numbers (and usually thinking of other people rather than myself), but I find it hard to imagine it being $3+. Of course I know nothing and really no one else does, either.

I guess it's all relative. Even if it revals at a penny, hey, that's ten times my initial investment. Which in fact was only 2.5% of my salary!

Business News Dec. 19 Updates with details of gas deals from first paragraph.) Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq forecast a 17 percent rise in oil output next year and invited companies from South Korea and Kazakhstan to sign immediately a delayed contract for the Akkas gas field, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said. Iraq, holder of the world’s fifth-largest oil reserves, wants foreign investors to help it boost production of crude and natural gas. Output of both has suffered from insurgent attacks and a lack of investment since Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 2003. Seeking to end the stagnation, the government has awarded 12 oil contracts and three gas licences. “Iraq’s oil production capacity will increase to 2.75 million barrels a day early next year,” Shahristani said in an interview in Baghdad yesterday.

Well if the bank is FDIC insured just deposit up to the amount the bank is insured... hence having more than one bank acct is a good idea.

I'm with Phoenix. Firstly I haven't bought anything from DT. Secondly I have a choice of two banks nearby at which I have accounts. My plan is to see which can give me the best spread.

Two words: GEORGE SOROS.

Vous pouvez le lire sur le site http://cbi.iq/ Voir les indices entre l'Euro et le dinar. Dès que le dinar se montre avec TOUT les chiffres à la droite du point, ça veut dire que le RV s'est passé. Aussi voir le site www.xe.com pour les conversions. A mon avis le dinar est reconnu comme un vrai argent dans le monde entier, donc je pense que vous pourriez les échanger à votre banque.

I heard about this a year ago but didn't believe it until OSAF lifted its sanctions and took the IQD off the exotic currency list. So I'm more inspired to invest by news, but I get a kick out of the rumors and the chats.

Duh someone already posted the same thing before me

Someone just called and told me Dec. 25th at $3.80. I'd reveal the source if I knew where she read it!

Rich homo and rich hetero. A Lil of both! LOL

When / where did Shabibi actually say this?

LOL thanks. Somehow I think Iraq needs the money worse than Iran.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/156085.html Was just reading this article that mentions Iran's one-trillion-dollar compensation demand from the war. "Another important point is that lifting the [chapter 7] sanctions does not in any way free Iraq from its obligations to compensate Iran for the imposed war. The Iranian nation will never forgo its legal rights. " Anyone know more?

LA Times article A barrier to new Iraq government falls with vote by parliament Iraq's lawmakers strike down a ban on three Sunni Muslim politicians, virtually guaranteeing that the secular Iraqiya bloc, popular with Sunnis, will join Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government. By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times 1:21 PM PST, December 18, 2010 Reporting from Baghdad Advertisement clear pixel Iraq's parliament knocked away one of the last barriers to forming a new government Saturday when it struck down a ban on three Sunni Muslim politicians. The reinstatement of former lawmaker Saleh Mutlaq and two other politicians virtually guaranteed that their secular Iraqiya bloc, popular with Iraq's Sunnis, will join Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government. Different Iraqi political groups and U.S. officials have pushed for a coalition government with a big role for the country's Sunni minority, who after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 waged an insurgency against the Americans and the new Shiite elite. Mutlaq and the others were barred from running in last spring's elections by the Accountability and Justice Commission, which had the task of blocking senior members of the late dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party from high positions in the government or military. The board banned hundreds of mainly Sunni politicians, helping to polarize the country along religious lines. The election ended in a near draw between Maliki's bloc and the Iraqiya slate, headed by a secular Shiite, Iyad Allawi. The inconclusive results ushered in an eight-month deadlock that raised fears that the country's Shiites and Sunnis were incapable of sharing power. Soon after Saturday's vote, Maliki's supporters announced that the prime minister would submit his Cabinet to parliament Monday. But the date could easily be postponed if new crises erupt before then. Blocs remain split over who should head the key security ministries; and Allawi, the head of Iraqiya, has yet to formally accept his new position as the head of the National Council for Higher Policies, a body that would help set government policies. Iraqiya wants the body's decisions to be binding, while Maliki's supporters have resisted Allawi's push for greater powers. Even in Saturday's session, the tensions over repealing the ban on Mutlaq, former lawmaker Dhafer Ani and politician Jamal Karbouli were evident. After a statement that the men had signed denouncing the Baath party was read, the measure passed by 101 votes to 69. Prominent Shiite lawmakers attended the vote but did not raise their hands in a silent protest, while others stayed away in a symbolic dissent. A senior member of Maliki's coalition, outgoing Education Minister Khudair Khuzaie, said that the Shiites needed to honor their deal with Iraqiya, but wanted to show their supporters that they did not support the Baath party. "What we did today was we [practiced] realism and flexibility, but we didn't give away our values and principles," Khuzaie said.

Why not. The world needs more rich homos.

Without divulging my investment anyone I've casually mentioned this to thinks it's BS so don't worry.