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Good read, thanks for the post econ. It sounds like Kuwait and Iraq are finally patching things up nicely. Imagine a harmonious Middle East? It would be a whole new world over there.

Here is a link to some information on the "Visit of Forty Days"

Google turns up nothing on this holiday visist of 40.

Thanks for the post. It is sad to think of the guy who hasn't paid his mortgage payment based on such a long shot. I hope this post helps others to think before they gamble.

Badr Corps The Islamic leadership in Iraq followed civil methods in its religious, cultural and political movement in Iraq after the 1920 revolution against the British occupation. However after the second Ba'ath coup in 1968 the Islamic movement as whole faced all kind of repression in the late 1960's and 1970's. Thousands of religious scholars and Islamic activists have been arrested and tortured. Hundreds of them have been killed while being torture or executed. The Ba'ath regime started its reign with a brutal confrontation with the religious leadership of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin Al Hakim who was put under house arrest. His son Sayed Mahdi Al Hakim was accused of being a traitor and fled the country and was assassinated later in Sudan in 1988. In 1974 five religious leaders were executed. In 1977 there was a popular uprising when the regime prevented the people from visiting the Shrine of Imam Husain in the holy city of Karbala. Sayed Mohamad Baqir Al the leader of SCIRI and the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin Al Hakim was arrested, tortured and sentenced to life imprisonment without a trial. In 1980 Ayatollah Mohamad Baqir Al Sadr who became the religious leader after the death of Sayed Muhsin Al Hakim was executed with his sister Amina Al Sadr. Saddam's regime issued a decree to execute all the members of the Islamic Movement. Therefore the Islamic leadership decided to defend itself by force. Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir Al Hakim fled Iraq as his life was in danger. He settled in Iran among the largest Iraqi community outside Iraq. He started to mobilise Iraqis who were deported to Iran by Saddam's regime, Iraqi officers and soldiers who defected from Iraq during Iraq- Iran war as well as Islamic movement members who fled Iraq. The strategy of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir Al Hakim the leader of SCIRI was as follows: To establish popular secret resistance cells inside Iraq. To mobilise Iraqis outside Iraq and to train them on using arms. To establish an armed force to fight Saddam's regime. Ayatollah Al Hakim started this force with a brigade called Badr Brigade which developed in to a division and then into a corps. It consists of thousands of fighters recomited from Iraqi refugees in Iran, Iraqi migrants and Iraqi military officers as well as soldiers from Iraqi army who defected during Iran- Iraq war. A new wave of fighters arrived in Iran after the popular uprising of March 1991 which was crushed by Saddam's regime. The Badr corps consist of Infantry, Armoured, Artillery, Anti aircraft and commandos units. The training courses are supervised by Iraqi military officers and commanders who defected from Iraqi army. The Badr forces strategy is as follows: To build military bases in some safe areas such as the Marshes in southern Iraq and Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. To establish secret resistance cells all over Iraq. To keep mobilising and training camps outside Iraq in the neighbouring countries which allow such activities. During the popular uprising of March 1991 the secret cells and elements which was connected to Badr corps took part actively in launching and spreading the uprising from the south to other parts of Iraq. Link

Agreed.

Thats awesome keylime. Thanks for sharing. Go RV.

hahaha no doubt THANKS 98.

The link doesnt work. Thanks for posting.

Detainees don police uniforms in Iraq jailbreak Posted: Jan 14, 2011 02:27 AM PST Updated: Jan 14, 2011 11:27 AM PST By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) - A dozen terror suspects disguised in police uniforms broke out of an Iraqi jail Friday, prompting a manhunt across the nation's south for what officials called a dangerous group of top-ranking insurgents linked to al-Qaida. At least two of the suspects had formerly been held at Camp Bucca, the sprawling prison on Iraq's southern border with Kuwait where the U.S. military held tens of thousands of suspected insurgents - all of whom were transferred to Iraqi custody when the prison camp closed in September 2009. The 12 suspects were awaiting trial when they obtained the police uniforms and walked out of the small, temporary detention center in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces before dawn in the southern port city of Basra, said three Iraqi security officials. Iraqi authorities immediately set up checkpoints on two major northbound highways to stop cars, asking all police to display their official ID cards as they urgently tried to track down the suspects. Basra is Iraq's second-largest city and is located 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. The 12 were the only detainees held at the palace's makeshift jail. Intelligence officers had recently finished an investigation into their suspected ties to the Islamic State of Iraq, which is linked to al-Qaida. It's not clear how the detainees got the police uniforms. One intelligence official said authorities were looking into whether they had inside help from guards. The deputy head of the Basra provincial council, Ahmed al-Sulaiti, told reporters that the federal government ordered the detention of all the security officials who were supposed to be protecting the palace compound from which the detainees escaped. The intelligence officer said half of the detainees were recently arrested for stealing cars in Basra and confessed to being involved in multiple bombings since 2004 in Basra and the southern cities of Amarah and Nasiriyah. Their confessions led authorities to the other six suspects, the officer said. The fugitives were believed to be heading to Baghdad to obtain fake IDs and passports to help them flee Iraq, the intelligence officer said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. Iraq has been struggling to keep terror suspects behind bars since U.S. forces turned over legal custody of their detainees to the government. In July, detainees linked to al-Qaida escaped at least twice from a Baghdad area prison known as Camp Cropper shortly after the U.S. handed it over to Iraqi authorities. The jailbreaks deeply embarrassed Iraq's government, which is eager to demonstrate it can control its justice system without U.S. oversight as American troops prepare to leave the country by the end of the year. Also Friday, anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani as part of al-Sadr's push to gain credibility in the nation's political and religious circles since returning from voluntary exile. There were no details on what the two men discussed during their half-hour meeting at al-Sadr's ancestral home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, and aides declined to comment. The meeting is significant because it highlights al-Sadr's efforts to portray himself as a mature, disciplined statesman after four years in Iran. After his return last week, al-Sadr branded the fewer than 50,000 U.S. forces in Iraq as "occupiers" and said he would pressure al-Maliki to force them out by the end of 2011 as planned. Al-Maliki held onto a second term as prime minister this year largely due to al-Sadr's support. The radical cleric met earlier this week in Najaf with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite figure, with whom Talabani also visited on Friday. The president's office said the two men discussed the plight of Christians under threat in Iraq and concerns about corruption in the county's newly seated government. Link

Maybe, thanks for sharing. Go RV!

Well done. Thanks Adam.

OH SNAP!

So some day laborores are demanding that our VP doesn't return? What do they know? From what I have read, Sadr is a puppet, born into some type of power and It is safer to have him in Iraq than in Iran. The people will listen to him and he has the power to brinfg the nation together, or drive them apart. Hopefully, in today's Iraq, he will do what is best for the Iraqis. This one could go either way imo.

A revaluation may be treated differently than a redenomination. I'm all for education but I hope they don't think we/they need that much time to realize the different value of the cash in our/their hands.

That is awesome. We need more guys like that.

I think I may be hyperventilating. Thanks for posting this.

Thanks for the post viz. Priceless response DD lmao

The data is from 2004 as found in the javascript.

Thank you for the saavy post. Maybe you can answer these ones too... Is the SEC still cracking down on the pump and dump? Does this apply to speculative investments and foreign currency exchange? If so, the SEC is horrible at "cracking down" imho. It's like the wild west all over again.

Thanks joe. That's even better I spaced that 1.

This is great news! That just leaves the triple read on the budget, which starts tomorrow. Things are falling into place.

I think they still need a Minister of Security too.