"Big Day" - Thurs. PM KTFA Thoughts, News w/ DELTA 12/20/18

by **Ssmith** Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:19 am

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DELTA » December 20th, 2018

IQD EXCHANGE RATE IN IRAQI MARKET FROM CBI:
16-Dec... 1196.189- 1195.939
17-Dec... 1195.512- 1195.270
18-Dec... 1194.840 -1194.809
19-Dec... 1194.468- 1194.450
20-Dec... 1195.223- 1194.936

2Cents » December 20th, 2018

Big Day.....Parliament completes First Reading of the Budget for 2019 and the COM declares 12/30, 12/31 and 1/01 a Holiday.....The stage is set in Iraq!!!!

Trump declares Christmas Eve a Holiday. Will he declare New Year's Eve a holiday???? IMO, this would clean up the "stage" if he does.

Come on Kurds, get that last minute payroll completed by the 29th!!!!

Samson » December 20th, 2018

Integrity announces the issuance of an arrest warrant against the governor of Kirkuk, Rakan Jubouri

20th December, 2018

The Integrity Commission announced on Thursday the issuance of an arrest warrant against the province of Kirkuk and agency Rakan Jubouri.

The media center of the Authority, in a statement received / Mawazine News / a copy of it, "the issuance of an arrest warrant against the current governor of Kirkuk on the basis of Article 340 of the Penal Code."

The statement added that "this was due to the failure of the fundamentalist measures on a set of materials seized in one of the customs of the province as the Chairman of the Committee responsible for that in time, causing the destruction of the material and damaged in 2008." LINK

Parliament confirms the validity of the membership of three deputies

20th December, 2018

The House of Representatives confirmed on Thursday the validity of the membership of three deputies in its meeting in the presence of 248 deputies. "The three deputies are Jassim Hussein Mohammed Jabara, Manar Abdulmutallab Hashim and Samayah Mohammed Gulab," a reporter for Mawazin News said.

The media department of the council said that the agenda of the meeting includes the constitutional oath of ministers (higher education, scientific research, culture, tourism and archeology / planning), in addition to considering the appeals filed on the validity of the membership of some deputies, As well as the introduction of a general subject of discussion in the presence of the Minister of Electricity to discuss the program of the Ministry for the year 2019, "and read the law of the general budget for 2019. LINK

Trump: We will not be a policeman in the Middle East for nothing

20th December, 2018

US President Donald Trump said his decision to withdraw his forces from Syria stemmed from the fact that the United States did not want to play the role of a policeman in the Middle East without charge, warning that he "urged" to attack his country.

Trump wrote in Twitter on Thursday that his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria was "no surprise", recalling that he had called for that for years and agreed to keep troops longer six months ago when he announced his intention to withdraw.

"Does the United States want to be a Middle East policeman without anything in return, losing precious lives and trillions of dollars to protect others who probably do not appreciate what we're doing, do we want to stay there forever?

"Russia, Iran, Syria and others are not satisfied with the withdrawal of the United States, despite the false news that they will now have to fight," he said, "and others who hate them, without us." "I am building the greatest military force in the world, and if we hit," Trump warned, "we will eliminate it