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If al-Baghdadi is killed by the Jordanians, the USA should ask for the body. Have it cremated, with its ashes mixed with cement to make a special concrete walkway somewhere at Ground Zero. Engraved in the walkway would be the words "GOD BLESS AMERICA - WELCOME TO NEW YORK" He did say he would see his captors in New York, so there ya go!

Hey, cashing in at 7-11 would be great. I can give them a 25K Dinar note in exchange for a couple of Bahama Mama hot dogs with chili and melted cheese, a big slurpee, and have plenty of cash left over for a packet of 2 Alka Seltzer tablets!

"Calibration" error, huh? I guess that goes hand in hand with dead people voting being classified as a "mortality" error.

As an aside to what I just posted, I can't help being reminded of the following dialogue from one of the greatest films of all time which feeds my unease with the military situation in Iraq: Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't. Hyman Roth: What does that tell you? Michael Corleone: They could win. I will continue to hold onto my Dinar, but I can't help thinking that it is all a pipe dream.

I hear you, but when you assert that Iraq needs to make a statement showing that they can be taken seriously as a "super country," having a military that is willing to fight and not run (a military, by the way, that is several times larger than ISIS and equipped with US supplied weaponry) would go a long way in showing the world that they could in fact be taken seriously. A country with a military that will not fight can never be taken seriously.

Oh yeah -- the Signature Red is beautiful. Post RV I'm gettin' one...... See you at the charging station.......

This is ridiculous. I'm gong to get to the bottom of this confusion. I just need to charge up the flux capacitor in my DeLorean and travel to the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad in 2014. Be right back.........

That float ain't free. That bill gets ruined, and you are out 22 bucks......

"Twilight" News? Never trust a news outlet controlled by Iraqi vampires........ :D

To me, a "scam" is an offer to intentionally defraud an investor, where the investor's money is in effect stolen -- never to be returned. The investor loses everything. By contrast, we, as IQD investors, hold a country's legitimate currency which has value. The only way we can benefit from this investment is if there is movement. If the IQD loses value, we lose. If the IQD stays the same, we lose slightly because of the transaction fees. But if the IQD gains value, even slightly, I am no worse off if I had put my money in a savings account earning very little interest. I just can't see the IQD value remaining constant -- something has to give -- and I'm banking on it going up. So, how am I being scammed?

Yeah, I gotta agree with leesburg. The "removing zeros" part is the downer. Basically, I believe they are saying that the "new" IQD will be worth 1,000 times the existing IQD. So if I have a 25,000 IQD note, it will be equivqaent to a "new" 25 IQD note (i.e., the new note with "zeros removed"); and both notes would be worth 25 USD. Our investment does not skyrocket, as we are simply exchanging paper. If there was going to be a substantial RV as we had hoped, that would mean that there would be no reason to "remove zeros." The 25,000 IQD note could skyrocket to, say, a value of 25,000 USD; and the CBI would then have to introduce lower denomination IQD notes and coins in order to effect day to day transactions. There would be no "removal" of zeros in this scenario, just the phasing out of the "triple zero" bills (as they would be impractical to use). I hope that I'm wrong on this. Anyway, I am holding onto my dinars to the bitter end.

The Dinar is the legal tender of Iraq. It is a speculative investment -- but I don't believe the Dinar will go DOWN in value relative to the USD -- so at worst we lose a few bucks in transaction fees. How could this be a scam? Relatively little risk with a possible high return. It's definitely worth a shot....... Sorry Dave, but it's a gamble I am willing to take knowing that I can still get most of my investment back......

Yeah, and the Iraqi Govt. and CBI act like Eddie Haskell -- they are sneaky -- never come out and say what their true intentions are.... :P

"Twilight?" I get it......There are two factions battling over whether the dinar should LOP or RV. The LOP faction is made up of mostly human Iraqis who can transform themselves into wolves, and the RV faction is made up of Iraqi vampires. Looks like a battle to the end, folks......................

This is one helluva thread -- I'm cracking up reading this stuff!!

Translation: "Dear Shell Oil, you need to grease a few more palms and then we will consider this deal."

Who the heck is Fred Wilson?

You are not alone....I too visited the good (witch)doctor late last night. As I was entering his hut, I was startled to see him talking to State Department official Arthur Mitchel Harrison, who, as we all know, is intimately involved with the IQD issues. Mr. Harrison was drinking chicken blood out of a styrofoam Dunkin Donuts cup. Hmmmmmm.....The witchdoctor and Harrison....Mere coincidence? I think not.......

Looking at the notes in circulation, the lowest values note (50 dinar) equals around $0.04, and escalates to the highest value note (25K dinar) which equals around $20.00. This appears to be a practical range for Iraqis to transact business in all circumstances -- from the purchase of a loaf of bread to the purchase of a car. What I find interesting, though, are the 2 coins that have been minted but NOT put into circulation. The 25 dinar coin would be valued at $0.02 if circulated, and the 100 dinar coin would be worth $ 0.08 if circulated. Why are they being held back? Would it not be more convenient for the average Iraqi to handle the lowest vlaues of their money in coin form and the higher values in paper form, as is done in just about all other countries? He goes to the newsstand to buy a newspaper -- it would be alot easier to reach into his pocket and pull out, say, four 25 Dinar coins, or one 100 dinar coin -- as opposed to peeling off two 50 dinar bills from his wallet -- or giving the newsstand merchant a 250 dinar bill, where he then has to make change by giving back to the buyer three 50 dinar bills. All for a lousey newspaper! Yet, that's exactly what's happening now. The holding back of these coins from circulation would only make sense if there was an anticipated change in value of the currency, and the current uncirculated coins would be deemed impractical. Otherwise they would have circulated them by now. So, with a sudden, drastic change in value, the CBI would introduce lower value coins that would work (1 dinar coin, half dinar coin, quarter dinar coin -- whatever) and keep the lower value dinar notes (50, 250, maybe even 500?) while systematically taking the higher dinar notes out of circulation (1,K through 25K) as they would be too valuable to carry around. Then you would have currency system that makes sense and in tune with all other world currencies -- lower values in coin form and higher values in bill form.

Hey guys, my brother-in-law's sister's masseuse lives in Key Largo, and guess what? She swears that she saw Dr. Sinan Al-Shabibi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, dining at a local restaurant with Ali (Dinar Trade). Now if that isn't bolckbuster news enough, at the conclusion of the meal, guess who comes in the restaurant and joins them for a drink? You got it!!! State Department Official Arthur M. Harrison!!! Holy S**T!!!!!! Hey, I'm just reporting what I was told -- no need to get all huffy -- this is the "RUMORS" section, right?????

How DARE you defame the esteemed Arthur Mitchel Harrison, of the Boston Harrisons -- whose ancestors came here on the Mayflower. I will have you know that in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN several years ago, Mr. Harrison put that rumor to rest. He indiciated that he in fact did smoke marijuana once while a student at Yale, but insisted that he didn't inhale. Doesn't that qualify him to be President?

Ya gotta give these people credit, though.....They really try.......... The first thing you need to do is pick a very waspish name -- ARTHUR M(ITCHELL) HARRISON, and then let the imagination run wild -- Yale class of 1970, Graduate of Harvard John F. Kennedy Graduate School of Government 1974 -- worked in the Peace Corps building schools for orphaned children in Kenya 1975-77. PhD in International Relations from Columbia 1980. Entered the State Department in 1981 as special advisor, moving up in the ranks into his present posiiton, Assistant Secretaty of State for Financial Affairs. Get the picture? Hell, I'm imagining somebody who looks like the actor George Hamilton in a blue blazer and white pants steering his yacht into his berth at his winter beachfront home in the Keys....... Geeze, someone with a name like that MUST have the insider dope on the Dinar, right?

OMG!! Not THE Arthur M. Harrison! Well then, this MUST be legit!! I'm wiring Ali another ten grand right now!! (Yeah, pathetic, right?)

B&B on the rocks, please........And I will help myself to one of those fine Cuban cigars you have in that humidor................

"God bless us crazy Dinar investors, all of us........" Yeah, when this RV finally hits, send your ridiculing family a big fat turkey, anonimously. They'll know its from you, finally realizing who the real "turkeys" are!!