Saturday, February 28, 2004
Is Education Enough?
After visiting her brother in Basra My mother came back to Baghdad last Thursday, as usual I started to ask about the situation there and she started to talk about the campaign of black, red and green flags there which is a tradition people there do at the memory of the first 10 days in the Hijry month Muharam, because at those days hundreds years ago the all relatives of the Prophet Muhamed were killed. She said “how is it in Baghdad…its ten times more in Basra”, so I said are they bothering any one, she said no, so I said “then let them do whatever they want if they are not bothering anyone”. We must not forget it’s their first year after 35 years of preventing them to do such activities. They are not criticizing anyone, they are not being aggressive to anyone, and they are not trying to force anyone to do the same. They are just simple people trying to do religious ceremonies which they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers.
But the next day I was invited by my cousin on the honor of a relative of us who is living in England and now visiting Baghdad for business. One of the people who was there, a Doctor Who is about to finish Arabic board in medicine, I think that gives him a PHD degree in medicine. This Doctor started to talk about “the people in our governing council, and how they are very busy to do business instead of improving the situation in the country,….are the Iraqis have to wait another 35 years to see thing improving? What was done? Electricity is the same problems are more complicated”. I tried to prove to this Doctor that thing is better or at least we feel that the government is not standing still they are working something, and I had to put to him many evidence of what I said beside the opinions of all the people who were in the invitation who tried to know why this doctor is talking with such point of view. Actually I was very nerves at him and finally I told him “if we want to know who’s better the situation before April 2003 or now, we should wait for another 35 years and after that we start criticizing, and if thing will be better in 34 years from now then we are in a better situation than the days before April 2003. And I know we would be in better situation in 35 months from now”. Actually we are in a better situation now.
After we left the invitation, I started to ask my self “why a well educated guy can’t see the difference and changes that simple people can feel” and after thinking I can say it’s not an education mater, it’s something to do with conscious. I think this guy afraid of being a looser in the new Iraq, where any dedicated person can be successful, in the past we had to be close to the regime to succeed or maybe get a medical degree as he was planning to do to be one of the corrupt medical staff in public hospitals we had. Maybe his plan is not going well any more, and the competition will be very strong for him and his like. These kind of people will try always to hold the other motivate people, and dangerous as terrorists, not any one else who puts flags on the roof of his house, and we should not let them spread there poison among the Iraqi people without any one to face them back.
After visiting her brother in Basra My mother came back to Baghdad last Thursday, as usual I started to ask about the situation there and she started to talk about the campaign of black, red and green flags there which is a tradition people there do at the memory of the first 10 days in the Hijry month Muharam, because at those days hundreds years ago the all relatives of the Prophet Muhamed were killed. She said “how is it in Baghdad…its ten times more in Basra”, so I said are they bothering any one, she said no, so I said “then let them do whatever they want if they are not bothering anyone”. We must not forget it’s their first year after 35 years of preventing them to do such activities. They are not criticizing anyone, they are not being aggressive to anyone, and they are not trying to force anyone to do the same. They are just simple people trying to do religious ceremonies which they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers.
But the next day I was invited by my cousin on the honor of a relative of us who is living in England and now visiting Baghdad for business. One of the people who was there, a Doctor Who is about to finish Arabic board in medicine, I think that gives him a PHD degree in medicine. This Doctor started to talk about “the people in our governing council, and how they are very busy to do business instead of improving the situation in the country,….are the Iraqis have to wait another 35 years to see thing improving? What was done? Electricity is the same problems are more complicated”. I tried to prove to this Doctor that thing is better or at least we feel that the government is not standing still they are working something, and I had to put to him many evidence of what I said beside the opinions of all the people who were in the invitation who tried to know why this doctor is talking with such point of view. Actually I was very nerves at him and finally I told him “if we want to know who’s better the situation before April 2003 or now, we should wait for another 35 years and after that we start criticizing, and if thing will be better in 34 years from now then we are in a better situation than the days before April 2003. And I know we would be in better situation in 35 months from now”. Actually we are in a better situation now.
After we left the invitation, I started to ask my self “why a well educated guy can’t see the difference and changes that simple people can feel” and after thinking I can say it’s not an education mater, it’s something to do with conscious. I think this guy afraid of being a looser in the new Iraq, where any dedicated person can be successful, in the past we had to be close to the regime to succeed or maybe get a medical degree as he was planning to do to be one of the corrupt medical staff in public hospitals we had. Maybe his plan is not going well any more, and the competition will be very strong for him and his like. These kind of people will try always to hold the other motivate people, and dangerous as terrorists, not any one else who puts flags on the roof of his house, and we should not let them spread there poison among the Iraqi people without any one to face them back.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Qualifications
In the article I wrote at 18th of Feb 2004 I said that I need to have an assistant employee, and I found someone that I can trust and he has good qualifications (English language, computer , Microsoft office experience, accounting knowledge), just what I need . And I told him to start. At his first day he had to use the public transportation from northeast Baghdad where he lives to south of it where our office is, and it was something he used to do because of his university study period. But not with all the traffic jam and crowded streets we have these days, so he had to apologize and couldn’t continue with us. But I had to send him to our branch in another area not far from where he lives, because I didn’t want to loose him, and started to look for someone else, and couldn’t find him or her till now. Now I realize that finding an employee with such qualification is not easy in Baghdad with all the job opportunities available and little number of people who have such qualifications, maybe for that reason so many people are complaining not to find a job, they all want to work manual works and they are with out any qualifications, and I am sure they will find something soon, but that’s something the government should think about, we have to build an Iraqi staff with high qualifications to insure not to get people from outside to fill our job opportunities, as it is in the gulf countries, actually the people should also think about that and try to start building their own qualifications and improve their ability to get better jobs. No harm if the Iraqi media and ministry of high education will start a campaign about that subject, because it’s very important to maintain stability and prosperity to Iraq & Iraqis.
In the article I wrote at 18th of Feb 2004 I said that I need to have an assistant employee, and I found someone that I can trust and he has good qualifications (English language, computer , Microsoft office experience, accounting knowledge), just what I need . And I told him to start. At his first day he had to use the public transportation from northeast Baghdad where he lives to south of it where our office is, and it was something he used to do because of his university study period. But not with all the traffic jam and crowded streets we have these days, so he had to apologize and couldn’t continue with us. But I had to send him to our branch in another area not far from where he lives, because I didn’t want to loose him, and started to look for someone else, and couldn’t find him or her till now. Now I realize that finding an employee with such qualification is not easy in Baghdad with all the job opportunities available and little number of people who have such qualifications, maybe for that reason so many people are complaining not to find a job, they all want to work manual works and they are with out any qualifications, and I am sure they will find something soon, but that’s something the government should think about, we have to build an Iraqi staff with high qualifications to insure not to get people from outside to fill our job opportunities, as it is in the gulf countries, actually the people should also think about that and try to start building their own qualifications and improve their ability to get better jobs. No harm if the Iraqi media and ministry of high education will start a campaign about that subject, because it’s very important to maintain stability and prosperity to Iraq & Iraqis.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
In BIAP
In a business mater I visited Baghdad international airport with my boss today, although we didn’t wait in the line but we had to spend about 30 minutes just to go inside because of the huge number of cars waiting outside. I have visited BIAP last September but this time was different, people are waiting to go in for different kind of work, construction workers, suppliers of many things, airport employees, contractors, the place was so crowded that I thought nobody still in Baghdad, our construction group was standing there starting six AM, and now I heard that they couldn’t go in till 11.15 AM. It’s a really huge workshop in there, and my opinion thing are being arranged for the people and companies who are about to start the rebuilding of the country. I have saw that before in Basra, the German company who build Basra airport and part of highway No.1, started with the company village where their employees had to stay before they started with the project.
Inside the airport and the main terminal it was very cheerful and crowded with people from different countries and companies, and the Iraqi administration are being prepared to take over in a few months and they were happy about it and with different mentality than I used to see them with before April 2003. They are open minded and very motive to start working.
When we finished our business and got outside for our car in the park we saw plenty of cars brand new of the same model and expensive too, my boss asked our employee in the airport “do you know who’s going to use these cars?”, our man answered “its for the high and middle rank employees in airport”, my boss answered “then we should get a job with them”.
In a business mater I visited Baghdad international airport with my boss today, although we didn’t wait in the line but we had to spend about 30 minutes just to go inside because of the huge number of cars waiting outside. I have visited BIAP last September but this time was different, people are waiting to go in for different kind of work, construction workers, suppliers of many things, airport employees, contractors, the place was so crowded that I thought nobody still in Baghdad, our construction group was standing there starting six AM, and now I heard that they couldn’t go in till 11.15 AM. It’s a really huge workshop in there, and my opinion thing are being arranged for the people and companies who are about to start the rebuilding of the country. I have saw that before in Basra, the German company who build Basra airport and part of highway No.1, started with the company village where their employees had to stay before they started with the project.
Inside the airport and the main terminal it was very cheerful and crowded with people from different countries and companies, and the Iraqi administration are being prepared to take over in a few months and they were happy about it and with different mentality than I used to see them with before April 2003. They are open minded and very motive to start working.
When we finished our business and got outside for our car in the park we saw plenty of cars brand new of the same model and expensive too, my boss asked our employee in the airport “do you know who’s going to use these cars?”, our man answered “its for the high and middle rank employees in airport”, my boss answered “then we should get a job with them”.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
You have to crawl before you can walk
I think it’s the time to talk about the democracy and election in Iraq. Why it’s the time? Because when I drive my car in the streets of Baghdad these days I can feel comfortable and sure that our future would be something we will be proud of, so are the Americans and President J. W. Bush for the brave decision they made together to change the face of the world. I am not exaggerating when I’m saying that and time will prove it. But when things are OK you go to the next step, and we are ready to it…..Democracy.
Democracy can’t be applied without any faults from the first time, but it can be corrected each time we have problems, when we have a high authority to do so, and it should be applied step by step, I am sure that we cant start with general elections, (Saudee Arabia cant do that, not even Egypt if we can call what they have is democracy) but we can start with people conferences and maybe held by the active parties in the political field. All that to have an acceptable parliament, yes we don’t need an acceptable president at this time, nobody will accept anybody in the situation we are having. But when we will put the parliament in a higher stage than presidency, all the parties will accept that and will fight to have a seat in it, but by having a large popularity and good reputation and followers not by guns.
Parliament who can assign a president and can remove him, and few years later we will have a constitute which is written by the members of this parliament or at least approved by them or by the Iraqi citizens. A few years after practicing parliament and president elections we will need to drag people to election centers and put reports and talk shows in TV to make people go to elect their representatives. Isn’t that how it is even in democratic countries?.
What I am sure of that all the protests and political speeches here in Iraq these days are because it’s a new experience to all of us, and people don’t care if things will stay as it is for ages as long as they have a job and enough income, who really cares are the people who are trying to be elected, and those people are not poor or powerless. You see as a financial experienced person I know that all activities in life need financing and those people can finance these activities. Each for a different reason, that’s why we need plenty of them so they can observe each other and correct the faults of each other or at least make these faults clear to the public.
I have put a photos of the 15th of NOV 2003 agreement in the photo page on this site, so anybody can read it and see its well organizing applying democracy to our country and I think any body refuse to accept it either didn’t understand it or he doesn’t want peace to all of us.
I think it’s the time to talk about the democracy and election in Iraq. Why it’s the time? Because when I drive my car in the streets of Baghdad these days I can feel comfortable and sure that our future would be something we will be proud of, so are the Americans and President J. W. Bush for the brave decision they made together to change the face of the world. I am not exaggerating when I’m saying that and time will prove it. But when things are OK you go to the next step, and we are ready to it…..Democracy.
Democracy can’t be applied without any faults from the first time, but it can be corrected each time we have problems, when we have a high authority to do so, and it should be applied step by step, I am sure that we cant start with general elections, (Saudee Arabia cant do that, not even Egypt if we can call what they have is democracy) but we can start with people conferences and maybe held by the active parties in the political field. All that to have an acceptable parliament, yes we don’t need an acceptable president at this time, nobody will accept anybody in the situation we are having. But when we will put the parliament in a higher stage than presidency, all the parties will accept that and will fight to have a seat in it, but by having a large popularity and good reputation and followers not by guns.
Parliament who can assign a president and can remove him, and few years later we will have a constitute which is written by the members of this parliament or at least approved by them or by the Iraqi citizens. A few years after practicing parliament and president elections we will need to drag people to election centers and put reports and talk shows in TV to make people go to elect their representatives. Isn’t that how it is even in democratic countries?.
What I am sure of that all the protests and political speeches here in Iraq these days are because it’s a new experience to all of us, and people don’t care if things will stay as it is for ages as long as they have a job and enough income, who really cares are the people who are trying to be elected, and those people are not poor or powerless. You see as a financial experienced person I know that all activities in life need financing and those people can finance these activities. Each for a different reason, that’s why we need plenty of them so they can observe each other and correct the faults of each other or at least make these faults clear to the public.
I have put a photos of the 15th of NOV 2003 agreement in the photo page on this site, so anybody can read it and see its well organizing applying democracy to our country and I think any body refuse to accept it either didn’t understand it or he doesn’t want peace to all of us.
Friday, February 20, 2004
Thanks
I wanted to talk about the election which is about to start in Iraq, but I preferred to wait till the report of the UN is issued, so we can have a larger picture of the situation. But today I would like to give my thanks and gratitude to all the site visitors especially those who wrote their comments about the last article and made happiness seems too small compared to the feeling entered my heart and mined, I wont be shamed to say that it took me more time than needed to read the comments, because tears made it more difficult for me, and when I completed reading the comments I went back to the article to read it again because I was surprised with the kindness and sweet wards I had, and when I go bake to the moment I started to write that article and remember that I wasn’t sure what to write, I just let it go through the key strokes I made on my key board, I cant see but people who are happy with sharing truth and feel it, all truth and nothing but truth.
I always was a heavy reader, but not the few years past, maybe not enough time or more information facilities are available beside books. But I usually ask my self “am I going to keep reading, or its time to start writing “, seems to be its time to start writing, and in my case, its just to clear things out after I saw that the information about the Iraqi mentality needs to be discussed by Iraqi people and cleared to others.
I am not intending to stop not even if I had only one visitor to my website. I started writing few months ago and I didn’t have any visitors at that time. But it was real good sharing thoughts with the world and people in it especially people who appreciate these thoughts.
Any way, to keep you people informed with the last financial information here in Baghdad, let me tell you that one of the first class hotels in Baghdad (Sadeer Hotel) is increasing its capital these days and the Iraqi people who are interested to get some shares of it gathered today in (Iraqi Commercial Bank) to apply for it, and it was so crowded that you may not find place to park the car. I even had to use a taxi to apply for it, but this time the taxi driver was happy to understand the facts I explained to him, he even didn’t want me to pay. Banks are working people are applying to invest money streets are crowded with people who are heading to work, and its all yours to imagine how normal life is in Baghdad.
I wanted to talk about the election which is about to start in Iraq, but I preferred to wait till the report of the UN is issued, so we can have a larger picture of the situation. But today I would like to give my thanks and gratitude to all the site visitors especially those who wrote their comments about the last article and made happiness seems too small compared to the feeling entered my heart and mined, I wont be shamed to say that it took me more time than needed to read the comments, because tears made it more difficult for me, and when I completed reading the comments I went back to the article to read it again because I was surprised with the kindness and sweet wards I had, and when I go bake to the moment I started to write that article and remember that I wasn’t sure what to write, I just let it go through the key strokes I made on my key board, I cant see but people who are happy with sharing truth and feel it, all truth and nothing but truth.
I always was a heavy reader, but not the few years past, maybe not enough time or more information facilities are available beside books. But I usually ask my self “am I going to keep reading, or its time to start writing “, seems to be its time to start writing, and in my case, its just to clear things out after I saw that the information about the Iraqi mentality needs to be discussed by Iraqi people and cleared to others.
I am not intending to stop not even if I had only one visitor to my website. I started writing few months ago and I didn’t have any visitors at that time. But it was real good sharing thoughts with the world and people in it especially people who appreciate these thoughts.
Any way, to keep you people informed with the last financial information here in Baghdad, let me tell you that one of the first class hotels in Baghdad (Sadeer Hotel) is increasing its capital these days and the Iraqi people who are interested to get some shares of it gathered today in (Iraqi Commercial Bank) to apply for it, and it was so crowded that you may not find place to park the car. I even had to use a taxi to apply for it, but this time the taxi driver was happy to understand the facts I explained to him, he even didn’t want me to pay. Banks are working people are applying to invest money streets are crowded with people who are heading to work, and its all yours to imagine how normal life is in Baghdad.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
A Promotion
My boss yesterday informed me by his decision to promote me to be “the company office manager” and I have to find someone to help me with the financial maters and supervise him and train him to substitute my position. I can’t say how proud and happy I was, even I phoned my wife to tell her about it. That’s because I had start my professional life after I finished my study out of university and finishing my compulsory military period at 1992 and till 2003 I had build a very important reputation and experience but I couldn’t built any financial foundation (I mean I couldn’t save any money), it wasn’t only me, it was general for most Iraqis, actually I have been loosing all what I got and what my parents had saved and built all their life and we was about to become broke, till I found this job and started it when the situation changed in Iraq after April 2003, now I feel that I am doing something right and building a very solid foundation to my life and family and that’s only after six months of hard working in the right place and for the right people.
I hope all Iraqis would have the same chance I hade and get the right job or at least a job. I know it won’t be easy because if someone is to get the suitable job it’s not a mater of chance only, but it’s a mater of education and reasonable thoughts. I have just came back to office from outside using a taxi and as usual the driver start talking about how the streets is crowded and how its difficult to find a job and how the people in the governing council are not doing any thing. These kinds of people (who usually Jazirah and Arabiya TV try to find and interview) are one of Iraq problems in a mater of fact they are one of humanity problems, those people are the kind that want the sea floods and come to their boat because they don’t want to carry their boat to the sea. I tried to convince him that there is chances to get jobs and thing are getting better depending on the facts 1…..2…..3……but all he could think of is why they don’t solve the problems (traffic jam, closed streets, electricity, cars fuel……..etc). I repeat he wants some one else to solve the problems, he wants to stand and watch problems being solved.
I don’t know how to say it, but for me most of these problems are solved, (I use a taxi to get to a crowded place, I use many long ways to get to the places I go to just not to use crowded streets, I have a private generator electricity line to use when the electrical power goes off, I don’t spent more then 12 minuets in the gas station) and I am not a millionaire and can not even be called a rich man, and I think its just because I am spending time and putting effort in my work and getting to my goals. Well there is an important thing that I learned through my life its: if you find a problem, don’t criticize it unless you have the solution for it; otherwise keep silent until you find one. That’s how any one can be really effective in his society through the short life we live. And about my self I want to be effective and want to leave a memory after I pass life, not through leaving a boy child or a few sons but by what I did, even if no body or just a few people knew about it, its OK, its how right and reasonable was for me. And because life is “just a moment and memories”, I want to spend the rest of my life when I retired with very beautiful memories that can keep me happy till the END. This is called HAPPINESS.
My boss yesterday informed me by his decision to promote me to be “the company office manager” and I have to find someone to help me with the financial maters and supervise him and train him to substitute my position. I can’t say how proud and happy I was, even I phoned my wife to tell her about it. That’s because I had start my professional life after I finished my study out of university and finishing my compulsory military period at 1992 and till 2003 I had build a very important reputation and experience but I couldn’t built any financial foundation (I mean I couldn’t save any money), it wasn’t only me, it was general for most Iraqis, actually I have been loosing all what I got and what my parents had saved and built all their life and we was about to become broke, till I found this job and started it when the situation changed in Iraq after April 2003, now I feel that I am doing something right and building a very solid foundation to my life and family and that’s only after six months of hard working in the right place and for the right people.
I hope all Iraqis would have the same chance I hade and get the right job or at least a job. I know it won’t be easy because if someone is to get the suitable job it’s not a mater of chance only, but it’s a mater of education and reasonable thoughts. I have just came back to office from outside using a taxi and as usual the driver start talking about how the streets is crowded and how its difficult to find a job and how the people in the governing council are not doing any thing. These kinds of people (who usually Jazirah and Arabiya TV try to find and interview) are one of Iraq problems in a mater of fact they are one of humanity problems, those people are the kind that want the sea floods and come to their boat because they don’t want to carry their boat to the sea. I tried to convince him that there is chances to get jobs and thing are getting better depending on the facts 1…..2…..3……but all he could think of is why they don’t solve the problems (traffic jam, closed streets, electricity, cars fuel……..etc). I repeat he wants some one else to solve the problems, he wants to stand and watch problems being solved.
I don’t know how to say it, but for me most of these problems are solved, (I use a taxi to get to a crowded place, I use many long ways to get to the places I go to just not to use crowded streets, I have a private generator electricity line to use when the electrical power goes off, I don’t spent more then 12 minuets in the gas station) and I am not a millionaire and can not even be called a rich man, and I think its just because I am spending time and putting effort in my work and getting to my goals. Well there is an important thing that I learned through my life its: if you find a problem, don’t criticize it unless you have the solution for it; otherwise keep silent until you find one. That’s how any one can be really effective in his society through the short life we live. And about my self I want to be effective and want to leave a memory after I pass life, not through leaving a boy child or a few sons but by what I did, even if no body or just a few people knew about it, its OK, its how right and reasonable was for me. And because life is “just a moment and memories”, I want to spend the rest of my life when I retired with very beautiful memories that can keep me happy till the END. This is called HAPPINESS.
Monday, February 16, 2004
A lesson
I didn’t want to talk about the Gail breakout which happened in Faluja before I can get a master picture of the subject. Actually the raid was so organized that it reminds us of what happened to the Iraqi museum at the beginning of entering Baghdad by the coalition forces. No way could Iraqi people organize such an attack, and I can say that Iraqi intelligence before April 2003 with the entire budget which was available to them could not do such things, and we all know that after all what happen till this moment no body and I do mean nobody could approve Iraqi involvement in international terrorism, and all the world could not see any Iraqi fighting with the Afghani Arabs and Qaeeda, (maybe one or two no more), When I’m saying that and sure of it, I am not depending on nothing, but because I am familiar with the Iraqi mentality, simply Iraqis don’t give their lives that easy they love life and all the happiness in it with all levels and standards of life styles (I mean a poor Iraqi love the life just like a rich Iraqi loves it), beside the people in Faluja and Anbar are so simple people that they aren’t familiar with these kinds of actions, actually they didn’t have a large part in such action during all the Iraqi history, and we are beginning to feel their real need and will to join the rest of Iraqis with their new life in the new Iraq, So what’s happening in Faluja or Arbeel or any where else cant be by Iraqis, Its really from outside and when it happens in Faluja, be sure its coming from Syria or through it.
After all that we saw the Syrian foreign affairs minister in Kuwait these days saying (The responsibility of security inside Iraq is the responsibility of the occupation, and not the responsibility of neighbouring countries), can you believe these people, and how they didn’t have a lesson of what happened…. For that reason there is a joke tell here in Baghdad its….(An American solder in Baghdad lend some money to a Syrian guy who is about to go back to Syria, so the American solder asked the Syrian guy “when are you coming back to Baghdad so you pay me back” but the Syrian guy answered “why…aren’t you guys coming to Syria”).
I didn’t want to talk about the Gail breakout which happened in Faluja before I can get a master picture of the subject. Actually the raid was so organized that it reminds us of what happened to the Iraqi museum at the beginning of entering Baghdad by the coalition forces. No way could Iraqi people organize such an attack, and I can say that Iraqi intelligence before April 2003 with the entire budget which was available to them could not do such things, and we all know that after all what happen till this moment no body and I do mean nobody could approve Iraqi involvement in international terrorism, and all the world could not see any Iraqi fighting with the Afghani Arabs and Qaeeda, (maybe one or two no more), When I’m saying that and sure of it, I am not depending on nothing, but because I am familiar with the Iraqi mentality, simply Iraqis don’t give their lives that easy they love life and all the happiness in it with all levels and standards of life styles (I mean a poor Iraqi love the life just like a rich Iraqi loves it), beside the people in Faluja and Anbar are so simple people that they aren’t familiar with these kinds of actions, actually they didn’t have a large part in such action during all the Iraqi history, and we are beginning to feel their real need and will to join the rest of Iraqis with their new life in the new Iraq, So what’s happening in Faluja or Arbeel or any where else cant be by Iraqis, Its really from outside and when it happens in Faluja, be sure its coming from Syria or through it.
After all that we saw the Syrian foreign affairs minister in Kuwait these days saying (The responsibility of security inside Iraq is the responsibility of the occupation, and not the responsibility of neighbouring countries), can you believe these people, and how they didn’t have a lesson of what happened…. For that reason there is a joke tell here in Baghdad its….(An American solder in Baghdad lend some money to a Syrian guy who is about to go back to Syria, so the American solder asked the Syrian guy “when are you coming back to Baghdad so you pay me back” but the Syrian guy answered “why…aren’t you guys coming to Syria”).
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Welcome ALHURRA
This night when I will be home, I am going to do a new search on my Free To Air satellite receiver so I can find and watch the new satellite television network ALHURRA which is started today. Yes now we are talking we should make people watch such television not Jazeera & Arabiya, let us stop boiling when we watch TV news on these channels till we started not to watch any thing. About my self, I even took those two out of my favorite list of channels, and started to watch CNBC or wait to come to office to open BBCARABIC or RADIOSAWA websites.
It should be along time ago to open such a channel so it can give the truth to people as I hope. And the poison spilled by the channels which want to lead us to civil war would be minimized and at the end to stop. Yesterday I even so a sign in the street about distributing a new free weekly paper called IRAQIYA with same logo of the TV IRAQIYA which means it will have the same mentality of telling the people the new activities toward new Iraq.
I always say about my self that “I can smell the ends and how it is before others” and it always worked at least for me, and at this month I can tell you that many thing are changing very fast and people are starting to forget talking about bad situations they used to talk about when they sit together, I can see that very clear and I am not telling them about it but between me and my self I am laughing about it and of course happy too.
I don’t want to forget telling you that electricity is better these days. And I got my mobile phone yesterday and I am so happy about it, just like a child with a Christmas present.
This night when I will be home, I am going to do a new search on my Free To Air satellite receiver so I can find and watch the new satellite television network ALHURRA which is started today. Yes now we are talking we should make people watch such television not Jazeera & Arabiya, let us stop boiling when we watch TV news on these channels till we started not to watch any thing. About my self, I even took those two out of my favorite list of channels, and started to watch CNBC or wait to come to office to open BBCARABIC or RADIOSAWA websites.
It should be along time ago to open such a channel so it can give the truth to people as I hope. And the poison spilled by the channels which want to lead us to civil war would be minimized and at the end to stop. Yesterday I even so a sign in the street about distributing a new free weekly paper called IRAQIYA with same logo of the TV IRAQIYA which means it will have the same mentality of telling the people the new activities toward new Iraq.
I always say about my self that “I can smell the ends and how it is before others” and it always worked at least for me, and at this month I can tell you that many thing are changing very fast and people are starting to forget talking about bad situations they used to talk about when they sit together, I can see that very clear and I am not telling them about it but between me and my self I am laughing about it and of course happy too.
I don’t want to forget telling you that electricity is better these days. And I got my mobile phone yesterday and I am so happy about it, just like a child with a Christmas present.
Friday, February 13, 2004
A Tender
This Thursday I went to an industrial company in Tajy, about 30 KM outside Baghdad to buy a tender for the company I work to about investing a huge factory. All the way was secured by Iraqi army and check point was put too. As I said in the last article bombs will not make any body stay at home especially Iraqis.
When we arrived to the factory I was surprised that the workers were in a protest against the financial administration in the company, I could not understand the details of what they wanted, but the view made me real happy. We are not familiar with such actions and always the reaction of the government against it before April 2003 was “kill them all” and the lucky one would be in Gail for life.
Any way we don’t need to remember those days and as usual let me tell you about the bright side of the story. It was the day before the last day to buy the tender and there was a protest and it was Thursday and usually its not a full time working day (the day before weekend) so I managed to ask an employee to help me to pay the fee and get the documents needed (the tender), and it was done, that employee did help me actually I couldn’t make it with out him. So when I finished and paid the fee which was 200,000 ID I tried to pay the man 2000 ID for nothing just to know if he is going to accept it or not, and I don’t need to tell you that before April 2003 it was the usual to pay him that if he didn’t ask for it himself. But at this time it was really surprising for me and even embracing. The man refused to accept the money and he even thanked me to try to help him and said it’s his job to help me.
I am writing this and still feeling happiness and pride because that man didn’t accept my money, because it’s not me the problem and he will refuse money from other people too and with that we can really start building new Iraq.
When I came back to office and started putting our application to invest the factory with the help and the join investors from foreign countries, and counted the Billions of Dollars are going to be invested here in Iraq and only in this part I couldn’t help my self to think loud and say it to my boss we should win that offer at least we will be always near the good news, ……….that rights if all Iraqis were close to the good news as we are they wouldn’t think that the good days are gone, actually they will now that the marvellous days are days to come.
This Thursday I went to an industrial company in Tajy, about 30 KM outside Baghdad to buy a tender for the company I work to about investing a huge factory. All the way was secured by Iraqi army and check point was put too. As I said in the last article bombs will not make any body stay at home especially Iraqis.
When we arrived to the factory I was surprised that the workers were in a protest against the financial administration in the company, I could not understand the details of what they wanted, but the view made me real happy. We are not familiar with such actions and always the reaction of the government against it before April 2003 was “kill them all” and the lucky one would be in Gail for life.
Any way we don’t need to remember those days and as usual let me tell you about the bright side of the story. It was the day before the last day to buy the tender and there was a protest and it was Thursday and usually its not a full time working day (the day before weekend) so I managed to ask an employee to help me to pay the fee and get the documents needed (the tender), and it was done, that employee did help me actually I couldn’t make it with out him. So when I finished and paid the fee which was 200,000 ID I tried to pay the man 2000 ID for nothing just to know if he is going to accept it or not, and I don’t need to tell you that before April 2003 it was the usual to pay him that if he didn’t ask for it himself. But at this time it was really surprising for me and even embracing. The man refused to accept the money and he even thanked me to try to help him and said it’s his job to help me.
I am writing this and still feeling happiness and pride because that man didn’t accept my money, because it’s not me the problem and he will refuse money from other people too and with that we can really start building new Iraq.
When I came back to office and started putting our application to invest the factory with the help and the join investors from foreign countries, and counted the Billions of Dollars are going to be invested here in Iraq and only in this part I couldn’t help my self to think loud and say it to my boss we should win that offer at least we will be always near the good news, ……….that rights if all Iraqis were close to the good news as we are they wouldn’t think that the good days are gone, actually they will now that the marvellous days are days to come.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Stronger we will Be
Terrorists are targeting the Iraqi police and army volunteers now, that’s what they did in Eskandariya and Muthana in Baghdad yesterday and today, simply they are afraid of having more people trying to stop terrorism, and trying to catch them. Well those fools don’t understand that now they will be followed and stopped and maybe killed by each and every father, mother, son, wife, daughter, lover of those victims who were killed by the terrorists. That’s how it’s going to be, nobody will forget someone dear to him lost in such an action and nobody will blame a victim to stand in line to get a job to live decently. We will all seek for revenge of those terrorists and who ever stand behind them.
There is a say that “a blow which can’t break you, makes you stronger “. Well nobody will stay home tomorrow and stop looking for a job with the coalition or not, as a policeman, a solder or any where else, just because a bomb was blown today, that’s something I am sure of. The fool, who thinks Iraqis will stay home tomorrow because of what happened today, should go back to the near history of Iraqi people and there he will see that we are soooooo familiar with all kinds of terror and battles and fought more battles in our lives than any one else in the world. We will not discuss what for we fought, was it right or wrong, I am sure it was wrong and for nothing. But I am sure as well that the ward fear is not in the Iraqis dictionary.
God bless the soles of those innocent men who lost their lives for nothing but to start normal life. But for me I can always see the light through the darkness, and here I can see bonded and united Iraqis against outside danger and evil tries to break them and when the dust will calm down and darkness will end and a new sun rises we will start our new life and we will never forget the countries and governments who helped us overtake our problems and also we will never forget those governments trying to hold and delay our steps towards freedom and democracy only because they cant afford to give it to their people.
And of course we will never ever forget those brave men who risk their lives daily to rebuild new Iraqi foundations in the Iraqi police or the Iraqi army or in any other ministry.
Let’s hope that who ever stand behind what happened today will come to the same result, so we can save time and money, and start building the Iraq & Iraqis faster.
Terrorists are targeting the Iraqi police and army volunteers now, that’s what they did in Eskandariya and Muthana in Baghdad yesterday and today, simply they are afraid of having more people trying to stop terrorism, and trying to catch them. Well those fools don’t understand that now they will be followed and stopped and maybe killed by each and every father, mother, son, wife, daughter, lover of those victims who were killed by the terrorists. That’s how it’s going to be, nobody will forget someone dear to him lost in such an action and nobody will blame a victim to stand in line to get a job to live decently. We will all seek for revenge of those terrorists and who ever stand behind them.
There is a say that “a blow which can’t break you, makes you stronger “. Well nobody will stay home tomorrow and stop looking for a job with the coalition or not, as a policeman, a solder or any where else, just because a bomb was blown today, that’s something I am sure of. The fool, who thinks Iraqis will stay home tomorrow because of what happened today, should go back to the near history of Iraqi people and there he will see that we are soooooo familiar with all kinds of terror and battles and fought more battles in our lives than any one else in the world. We will not discuss what for we fought, was it right or wrong, I am sure it was wrong and for nothing. But I am sure as well that the ward fear is not in the Iraqis dictionary.
God bless the soles of those innocent men who lost their lives for nothing but to start normal life. But for me I can always see the light through the darkness, and here I can see bonded and united Iraqis against outside danger and evil tries to break them and when the dust will calm down and darkness will end and a new sun rises we will start our new life and we will never forget the countries and governments who helped us overtake our problems and also we will never forget those governments trying to hold and delay our steps towards freedom and democracy only because they cant afford to give it to their people.
And of course we will never ever forget those brave men who risk their lives daily to rebuild new Iraqi foundations in the Iraqi police or the Iraqi army or in any other ministry.
Let’s hope that who ever stand behind what happened today will come to the same result, so we can save time and money, and start building the Iraq & Iraqis faster.
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
A Mobile Phone
I can say today is our first day with the new technology called “mobile phone”. Today I was asked for the first time “what’s your mobile number?”. Unfortunately I didn’t have one yet. Honestly I’m dying to get one but I hate the Idea of being fool because the company managing the net in Baghdad is charging too much, and as every new technology in the world it’s too expensive in its starting days.
Any way I will get one soon and I don’t think I can delay it more. And I think its going to be very useful for me especially while the traffic jam we face in Baghdad these days. I like to describe to you how people are happy using it even people who don’t need it they are carrying it just to remove the idea that they are not allowed to carry it as the situation was before March 2003. I wonder why it was not allowed. I can’t find any reasonable cause. You know what it just was like this not reasonable. The most unreasonable thing was that we made it through those dark days and we still don’t believe it. Iraqis have a say about those days its: “an Iraqi shouldn’t be hold in the judgment day because he already been to hell so he should go directly to heaven”.
I can say today is our first day with the new technology called “mobile phone”. Today I was asked for the first time “what’s your mobile number?”. Unfortunately I didn’t have one yet. Honestly I’m dying to get one but I hate the Idea of being fool because the company managing the net in Baghdad is charging too much, and as every new technology in the world it’s too expensive in its starting days.
Any way I will get one soon and I don’t think I can delay it more. And I think its going to be very useful for me especially while the traffic jam we face in Baghdad these days. I like to describe to you how people are happy using it even people who don’t need it they are carrying it just to remove the idea that they are not allowed to carry it as the situation was before March 2003. I wonder why it was not allowed. I can’t find any reasonable cause. You know what it just was like this not reasonable. The most unreasonable thing was that we made it through those dark days and we still don’t believe it. Iraqis have a say about those days its: “an Iraqi shouldn’t be hold in the judgment day because he already been to hell so he should go directly to heaven”.
Clearing
In the last article I wanted to make clear how some people are acting so negative just when they begun to feel their freedom. The broken pipe I spoke about is a private one and belongs to a known flat and they are acting negative about it, other wise I would fix it my self. And about the whole mater I meant that acting so firm with some people is important some times.
In the last article I wanted to make clear how some people are acting so negative just when they begun to feel their freedom. The broken pipe I spoke about is a private one and belongs to a known flat and they are acting negative about it, other wise I would fix it my self. And about the whole mater I meant that acting so firm with some people is important some times.
Monday, February 09, 2004
New Forces
We have just arrived home and its 8 PM, the streets were as crowded as they were in the morning. I just saw two American HUMMER stopping a car to search it and destroying a bunch of cans with car fuel in them belong to a guy who was standing on street side to sell them for someone who don’t want to stay in the line in the gas station. We started to forget about these sights.
Yesterday we were stopped (I mean my boss and me) while we were back to office by an American check point, and the men were so serious when they talked to us, now I can say there are new forces in Baghdad and they are more tough than the forces before them or maybe its because they are new. Well that’s a reason for changing forces from time to time, they get more serious I mean.
I am not saying all that because I am bothered or any thing. No I am saying it because those men managed to catch two trapped cars yesterday and a bunch of terrorists in another sector of Baghdad and they are adding more effective power to the IPs who are
still trying to force order in Baghdad and they are making a difference no doubt.
Let me tell you a little story for example. Few years ago we used to live in a building with an enter and front lays on a main street in Baghdad, and the women in these flats used to use their balconies as a washing room and the rain drains for washing water which discharges the water directly to that main street…..One day the mayor (who should be someone real important in Bath Party) was passing by with his car and saw what was going on so he ordered to cut off the water to punish us for the water. At that time I laughed and was so happy that the man gave our housewives a lesson, and they did learn to stop washing in the balconies.
Now days we have a broken drinking water pipe in our block waits to be repaired for a month now and of course by the people who use that pipe (that’s how it always been), and no one is moving. I think if that mayor was still there and would punish the flats responsible for the problem; we would have a dry block now and less possibility to catch diseases.
Let me be very clear at this point. I’m not saying I prefer what was going before March 2003. But I also don’t like leaving (disorder people) doing whatever they want just to make them feel free. So let me welcome those new tough men.
We have just arrived home and its 8 PM, the streets were as crowded as they were in the morning. I just saw two American HUMMER stopping a car to search it and destroying a bunch of cans with car fuel in them belong to a guy who was standing on street side to sell them for someone who don’t want to stay in the line in the gas station. We started to forget about these sights.
Yesterday we were stopped (I mean my boss and me) while we were back to office by an American check point, and the men were so serious when they talked to us, now I can say there are new forces in Baghdad and they are more tough than the forces before them or maybe its because they are new. Well that’s a reason for changing forces from time to time, they get more serious I mean.
I am not saying all that because I am bothered or any thing. No I am saying it because those men managed to catch two trapped cars yesterday and a bunch of terrorists in another sector of Baghdad and they are adding more effective power to the IPs who are
still trying to force order in Baghdad and they are making a difference no doubt.
Let me tell you a little story for example. Few years ago we used to live in a building with an enter and front lays on a main street in Baghdad, and the women in these flats used to use their balconies as a washing room and the rain drains for washing water which discharges the water directly to that main street…..One day the mayor (who should be someone real important in Bath Party) was passing by with his car and saw what was going on so he ordered to cut off the water to punish us for the water. At that time I laughed and was so happy that the man gave our housewives a lesson, and they did learn to stop washing in the balconies.
Now days we have a broken drinking water pipe in our block waits to be repaired for a month now and of course by the people who use that pipe (that’s how it always been), and no one is moving. I think if that mayor was still there and would punish the flats responsible for the problem; we would have a dry block now and less possibility to catch diseases.
Let me be very clear at this point. I’m not saying I prefer what was going before March 2003. But I also don’t like leaving (disorder people) doing whatever they want just to make them feel free. So let me welcome those new tough men.
Saturday, February 07, 2004
Normal life
As I said in the last article I was invited to an engagement party, actually the engagement of one of my partners who is Assyrian Christian. And it was some party started at two PM and didn’t finish at 8 PM when we left. With dancing of the Assyrian folklore and snacks, drinks and at last the dinner. We where not only Christians there, many people were invited and girls with Hijab were there too. No body carried guns, only a sword was used in dancing and it’s a habit the Assyrians usually use. Nobody seemed unhappy. At home I told my wife “that’s my third marvelous party in Baghdad”, that’s 18 years ago.
This morning while I drove my way to work, I started remembering the party (which is a habit in me to remember things while driving) and how my wife and me were happy and glad to attend it, it’s our first after March 2003. What jumped to my mind suddenly is how normal people were and how normal life is these days especially for someone who got a job. It’s really that easy “life is normal when you have a job”, and thank God I do.
What I think that our problems will end totally if the government took the right steps towards offering jobs to people. I can say from what I saw in Basra that the people there is forgetting about their daily problems and its beginning to be very small compared with ours here in Baghdad because they do not have unemployment as we have.
And you know what……I don’t want to say that I do have the solution but I think its easy to offer jobs with many ways one of them is by accomplishing the works needed manually, and I think they do that in India, and of course in China.
I remember that at the seventies Iraq had to get labors from Egypt and later from Vietnam and Morocco. And we have been told that all Iraqis are not enough to build what was planned to Iraq.
Maybe its financing is the problem………..no I don’t think so. What is it then somebody is conspiring on us again…….back to conspiracy theory!..........any way if I had to do something and I am doing it indeed in a small model that I am trying to give a part of my income to other people by hiring them to build my house and believe me I am pushing my self to do it only for the benefit of the people I hire and they are good skilled men and I hate to loose them too………..maybe just lending people money to build houses and buildings for commercial use is a good solution who knows.
Woops I am at the office thank you for listening to my loud thoughts.
As I said in the last article I was invited to an engagement party, actually the engagement of one of my partners who is Assyrian Christian. And it was some party started at two PM and didn’t finish at 8 PM when we left. With dancing of the Assyrian folklore and snacks, drinks and at last the dinner. We where not only Christians there, many people were invited and girls with Hijab were there too. No body carried guns, only a sword was used in dancing and it’s a habit the Assyrians usually use. Nobody seemed unhappy. At home I told my wife “that’s my third marvelous party in Baghdad”, that’s 18 years ago.
This morning while I drove my way to work, I started remembering the party (which is a habit in me to remember things while driving) and how my wife and me were happy and glad to attend it, it’s our first after March 2003. What jumped to my mind suddenly is how normal people were and how normal life is these days especially for someone who got a job. It’s really that easy “life is normal when you have a job”, and thank God I do.
What I think that our problems will end totally if the government took the right steps towards offering jobs to people. I can say from what I saw in Basra that the people there is forgetting about their daily problems and its beginning to be very small compared with ours here in Baghdad because they do not have unemployment as we have.
And you know what……I don’t want to say that I do have the solution but I think its easy to offer jobs with many ways one of them is by accomplishing the works needed manually, and I think they do that in India, and of course in China.
I remember that at the seventies Iraq had to get labors from Egypt and later from Vietnam and Morocco. And we have been told that all Iraqis are not enough to build what was planned to Iraq.
Maybe its financing is the problem………..no I don’t think so. What is it then somebody is conspiring on us again…….back to conspiracy theory!..........any way if I had to do something and I am doing it indeed in a small model that I am trying to give a part of my income to other people by hiring them to build my house and believe me I am pushing my self to do it only for the benefit of the people I hire and they are good skilled men and I hate to loose them too………..maybe just lending people money to build houses and buildings for commercial use is a good solution who knows.
Woops I am at the office thank you for listening to my loud thoughts.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Thursdays
Its Thursday today, and because yesterday was the last day of the eed and tomorrow is Friday (our week end), today was announced as a vacation so we didn’t have work to attend but I hade to go to finish repairing my car after the traffic accident I had. And we (my wife, daughter and me) had our lunch in my father in law `s house and after that I had to go to the office, after a call I received and went back home about 8 PM. What I want to say that I spent many hours of my day in the street driving, beside the traffic jam and heavy rain I noticed something very well “I saw about 11 cars of couples who are just married” with the very common habit to drive the car in the streets and the rest of the relatives following them before the party. It’s Thursday the usual day to get married here, plus my two partners are just engaged and one of them is giving an engagement party tomorrow, and a relative of mine who is just arrived from California is going to get married Saturday. We started to forget Thursday as the wedding day since 1991 and the Iraqi girls was starting to lose hope to get married but as I was saying we are getting it bake as a habit (getting married I mean). Why do you think people gets married and when?..............I say they do it to start a family when they think it’s a god time to do that. At least I thought so when I did it. And Iraqis did stop it or did it by the minimum all the 15 years passed.
It’s obvious now that the Iraqis think it’s a good again to start families’ new families for a new life, not to mention that marriage here cost too much and that gives the indication that boys are getting jobs. Let’s hope that we see more cars with flowers and coloured ribbons on them each Thursday to come.
Its Thursday today, and because yesterday was the last day of the eed and tomorrow is Friday (our week end), today was announced as a vacation so we didn’t have work to attend but I hade to go to finish repairing my car after the traffic accident I had. And we (my wife, daughter and me) had our lunch in my father in law `s house and after that I had to go to the office, after a call I received and went back home about 8 PM. What I want to say that I spent many hours of my day in the street driving, beside the traffic jam and heavy rain I noticed something very well “I saw about 11 cars of couples who are just married” with the very common habit to drive the car in the streets and the rest of the relatives following them before the party. It’s Thursday the usual day to get married here, plus my two partners are just engaged and one of them is giving an engagement party tomorrow, and a relative of mine who is just arrived from California is going to get married Saturday. We started to forget Thursday as the wedding day since 1991 and the Iraqi girls was starting to lose hope to get married but as I was saying we are getting it bake as a habit (getting married I mean). Why do you think people gets married and when?..............I say they do it to start a family when they think it’s a god time to do that. At least I thought so when I did it. And Iraqis did stop it or did it by the minimum all the 15 years passed.
It’s obvious now that the Iraqis think it’s a good again to start families’ new families for a new life, not to mention that marriage here cost too much and that gives the indication that boys are getting jobs. Let’s hope that we see more cars with flowers and coloured ribbons on them each Thursday to come.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
BANKS
The first Iraqi bank owned by the private sector after years of banking system totally owned by the government was Baghdad Bank which was founded 1989, now we have more than ten banks with shares owned by the Iraqis beside the government owned banks.
I would like to talk about Baghdad Bank as an example and about the other Iraqi banks maybe later or we can find information about them in the CPA site. Baghdad Bank is very popular bank for the Iraqi share holders and investors because of its high values assets. As a decision taken by the central bank of Iraq, Iraqi banks capital should not be less than 10 billions Iraqi Dinars, so all banks took a step towards that target including Baghdad Bank and that would be a new lot of shares equals the present capital issued to the share holders and the share holders should pay for it as a 1 Iraqi Dinar for each share. Now if any share holder could not pay for these shares for any reason then these shares should be issued to the general public to apply for it. In Baghdad Bank situation about a month ago the unclaimed shares was about 300 millions shares and it was announced that the people have the right to apply for it without any limits. So people applied to these shares with a total amount equal about 17 billions Iraqi Dinars. Can you Imagine how large amount was applied with, so any person applied with 1 million Iraqi Dinars would not get more than 2 % and that’s about 20 thousands shares and get back the rest of his money that’s what we call it in the Iraqi stock market the opponents division which is the total shares issued to the people divided by the total amount applied with.
Now the Baghdad Bank share price as in the last exchange in Baghdad Stock Market before it closed on March 2003 was no more than 4 Iraqi Dinars. Now any one can get no less than 10 Iraqi Dinars for the same share and there is talking about 20 Iraqi Dinars for each share not to mention the new rate of the Iraqi Dinar to the US Dollar.
Also we can hear solid news about join ventures between Iraqi Banks and foreign Banks that could not get the license to work in Iraqi market because of limited license allowed to be issued by the central bank. And those foreign banks offering to take the entire financial load towards the new capital limits. What we are about to clear here is the high predictions expected for the stock market and the shares registered in it specially the Banks shares. Not to mention our need for a new banking system which can meet our new needs for global money transactions so the Iraqi people can pay their bill and shopping’s through internet and I can pay what’s needed to reactivate my photos site which was closed because I couldn’t wire 5$.
The first Iraqi bank owned by the private sector after years of banking system totally owned by the government was Baghdad Bank which was founded 1989, now we have more than ten banks with shares owned by the Iraqis beside the government owned banks.
I would like to talk about Baghdad Bank as an example and about the other Iraqi banks maybe later or we can find information about them in the CPA site. Baghdad Bank is very popular bank for the Iraqi share holders and investors because of its high values assets. As a decision taken by the central bank of Iraq, Iraqi banks capital should not be less than 10 billions Iraqi Dinars, so all banks took a step towards that target including Baghdad Bank and that would be a new lot of shares equals the present capital issued to the share holders and the share holders should pay for it as a 1 Iraqi Dinar for each share. Now if any share holder could not pay for these shares for any reason then these shares should be issued to the general public to apply for it. In Baghdad Bank situation about a month ago the unclaimed shares was about 300 millions shares and it was announced that the people have the right to apply for it without any limits. So people applied to these shares with a total amount equal about 17 billions Iraqi Dinars. Can you Imagine how large amount was applied with, so any person applied with 1 million Iraqi Dinars would not get more than 2 % and that’s about 20 thousands shares and get back the rest of his money that’s what we call it in the Iraqi stock market the opponents division which is the total shares issued to the people divided by the total amount applied with.
Now the Baghdad Bank share price as in the last exchange in Baghdad Stock Market before it closed on March 2003 was no more than 4 Iraqi Dinars. Now any one can get no less than 10 Iraqi Dinars for the same share and there is talking about 20 Iraqi Dinars for each share not to mention the new rate of the Iraqi Dinar to the US Dollar.
Also we can hear solid news about join ventures between Iraqi Banks and foreign Banks that could not get the license to work in Iraqi market because of limited license allowed to be issued by the central bank. And those foreign banks offering to take the entire financial load towards the new capital limits. What we are about to clear here is the high predictions expected for the stock market and the shares registered in it specially the Banks shares. Not to mention our need for a new banking system which can meet our new needs for global money transactions so the Iraqi people can pay their bill and shopping’s through internet and I can pay what’s needed to reactivate my photos site which was closed because I couldn’t wire 5$.
Sunday, February 01, 2004
EED
It’s the first day of the eed (the Muslims pilgrimage fiesta) and it was so beautiful day started with the voices of priors in the musk’s. I had to go to my job today to fill the place of someone and there I heard the news of the two bombs in Arbil and what happened there, it was so sad that people take such an action in such a day, I don’t know if I have to be sad for the people who died by the bombs or for the so naïve people who suicide trying to kill others, can you imagine someone to die trying to kill another, who would be so influent to brain wash anyone to do so?, what for?, Money?, Power?, Both?, nothing worth’s to kill anything for. I kept asking my self what should we do to prevent the killing happens. Till I came with an answer……WE CANT, evil will be there all the time actually it was there since ever. Can we find a nation without evil, if we do can we look for what they did to stop it, help me to find such a nation………………………………I am still waiting…………………………………………..any way, we can do a little bit to stop it by something really easy, its called START BY YOURSELF try to stop evil inside yourself no mater how little it is stop it, by that we may make the bad guys shame doing what they do, I have always said to my self “treat people as you like them to treat you”, but I also always continued “ but if they didn’t don’t have mercy on them”.
When I took my car back home it was heavy raining, Just like Mother Nature wanted to wash every thing clean again so we can start another day with another hope. In Middle East rain always means peace and good sign for lock. Even if it meant catching cold in my case.
It’s the first day of the eed (the Muslims pilgrimage fiesta) and it was so beautiful day started with the voices of priors in the musk’s. I had to go to my job today to fill the place of someone and there I heard the news of the two bombs in Arbil and what happened there, it was so sad that people take such an action in such a day, I don’t know if I have to be sad for the people who died by the bombs or for the so naïve people who suicide trying to kill others, can you imagine someone to die trying to kill another, who would be so influent to brain wash anyone to do so?, what for?, Money?, Power?, Both?, nothing worth’s to kill anything for. I kept asking my self what should we do to prevent the killing happens. Till I came with an answer……WE CANT, evil will be there all the time actually it was there since ever. Can we find a nation without evil, if we do can we look for what they did to stop it, help me to find such a nation………………………………I am still waiting…………………………………………..any way, we can do a little bit to stop it by something really easy, its called START BY YOURSELF try to stop evil inside yourself no mater how little it is stop it, by that we may make the bad guys shame doing what they do, I have always said to my self “treat people as you like them to treat you”, but I also always continued “ but if they didn’t don’t have mercy on them”.
When I took my car back home it was heavy raining, Just like Mother Nature wanted to wash every thing clean again so we can start another day with another hope. In Middle East rain always means peace and good sign for lock. Even if it meant catching cold in my case.
