bodeen Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hope this helps some of the newbies and oldies..... This has been posted before..... I wish I had a pocket full of Kuwait dinar back then.... Bodeen Crush Expected When Kuwaiti Banks Reopen Today March 24, 1991|From Reuters Thousands of Kuwaitis are expected to jam the country's banks today when they open for the first time since the end of the Iraqi occupation. Customers will be allowed to withdraw funds and to swap pre-invasion money for a new currency issued to make more than $1 billion in pre-invasion dinars stolen by the Iraqis worthless. "We expect a rush of people," said Issam Asousi, an executive with the Bank of Kuwait. He said it could be a chaotic first week because customers have a lot of questions about their accounts. Kuwaiti banks continued operating during the seven-month Iraqi occupation under managers brought in from Iraq, but they have been closed since the U.S.-led alliance ousted the Iraqi army from Kuwait a month ago. When the banks reopen today, customers will be able to withdraw up to 4,000 Kuwaiti dinars, equivalent to about $14,000 at pre-invasion exchange rates from their accounts, and to exchange a like amount for foreign currency. Balances of customers' accounts will go back to what they were on Aug. 1, a day before the invasion. Clients will not be able to exchange Iraqi currency issued during the occupation, when Baghdad pegged the rates of the strong Kuwaiti dinar to the far less valuable Iraqi dinar. The new Kuwaiti money will be exchanged for old at a one-to-one rate. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-24/news/mn-1395_1_kuwaiti-banks The link below is a timeline for Kuwait 1991 Mar 24, In liberated Kuwait, banks reopened for the first time since Iraqi troops had shut them down the previous December. (AP, 3/24/01) http://timelines.ws/countries/KUWAIT.HTML 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing-Ventured Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Balances of customers' accounts will go back to what they were on Aug. 1, a day before the invasion. Thanks for posting this....but me and numbers...what stuck out in this is that Magic number/date...August 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodeen Posted July 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Balances of customers' accounts will go back to what they were on Aug. 1, a day before the invasion. Thanks for posting this....but me and numbers...what stuck out in this is that Magic number/date...August 1 Good call my friend....... We will see...... When the banks reopen today, customers will be able to withdraw up to 4,000 Kuwaiti dinars, equivalent to about $14,000 at pre-invasion exchange rates from their accounts, and to exchange a like amount for foreign currency Any help with this math???. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaneray Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Awesome!!! I didn't know it was Aug 1!!!! GO RV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing-Ventured Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Balances of customers' accounts will go back to what they were on Aug. 1, a day before the invasion. Thanks for posting this....but me and numbers...what stuck out in this is that Magic number/date...August 1 One thing I am drawn to is ~Repeating Patterns~. How cool would it be that History repeats itself on August 1st (or, hopefully before!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudiS4 Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 exactly 20 years from the aug 1, 1991 date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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