Word: dinaric
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...political standing has begun to falter, say U.S. intelligence officials. Last week Washington succeeded in persuading the U.N. Security Council to continue, at least until May, the near total economic embargo that Baghdad desperately wants lifted. Middle-class Iraqi families are drawing from savings to pay for food. The dinar, which traded a year ago at 150 to the dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There is widespread grumbling in Saddam...
...Billion-Dinar Bank Note
...northwest Bosnian village of Kozarac, 50 miles from their hometown, life is hard for Zamaklaar's mother, father, grandmother, sister and brother. They have no income, and local Serbian dinar notes, one of three currencies circulating in Bosnia, are all but worthless. "They don't know anybody here. They just sit in the house all day and think about what happened to them," said Zamaklaar...
Iraq's government has ordered its citizens to exchange all 100 dinar notes at local banks and instructed courts to hand down heavy sentences for circulating or importing fake currency. The plague of counterfeits is worsening the nation's already severe inflation, which has put food and other basic necessities beyond the reach of many Iraqis. Though the official exchange rate is U.S.$3 to the dinar, black-market money changers offer a more realistic 19 dinars to the dollar...
...hovering over cribs hold out a hand when they see a foreign visitor and beg, "Haleeb, haleeb," (Milk, milk). Because the cash-starved government can no longer afford to subsidize the cost of imported baby formula and other staples, prices have skyrocketed. A can of Similac cost half a dinar ($1.50) before the war; now it costs 20 dinars...