Word: dinars
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...looked around and saw my leg bleeding and my neighbor lying dead on the floor, torn apart. I saw a minibus full of children on fire." AMIN DINAR, an Iraqi wounded in one of five suicide bombings in Basra last Wednesday that killed...
...year on, the reality is vastly more complicated. In some ways, business is brisk. The new Iraqi dinar has shown surprising strength, given the violence, rising 30% against the dollar since it was introduced by U.S. officials last December, as Iraqis have begun to earn and spend far more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned...
...insurgents are not exactly on the ropes. Of course, the attempt of a lightly armed group to go head-to-head with an armored column riding shotgun on a consignment of banknotes does suggest, however, that the insurgents may be anticipating liquidity problems next January when the new dinar is introduced and the old Saddam banknotes hoarded in huge sums become worthless...
...prewar levels, Baghdadis claim that lines for gas are longer than they used to be. Bremer says the U.S. has tried to tackle the unemployment problem by paying 1.5 million civil servants their monthly salaries, but even that has provoked discontent. The U.S. is paying salaries in 10,000-dinar ($7.40) notes, which a cartel of Baghdad money changers has refused to break. As a result, hundreds of Iraqis were forced to stand in six-hour queues last week at the few open banks willing to make change for the 10,000-dinar notes. Baghdad has suffered from recent acts...
...opposite effect. "When I realized that they could arrest me whether or not I did anything wrong, I thought, Why not speak my mind?" She recounts how she tore up Saddam posters in the street, chanted anti-Uday slogans and, on one occasion, refused to take a 100-dinar note in change from a shopkeeper, declaring, "I don't want another picture of Saddam Hussein...