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2007-08-20 Iraq

Iraqi gov't considers establishing trade zone in Anbar

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Hope it's "we trade big dinars for a dead jihadi".

Posted by twobyfour 2007-08-20 01:27|| 2007-08-20 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I still hope that Iraq gets ambitious enough to become the nucleus of a Middle East Common Market.

Ironically, the only other group in the ME I've read who sees the logic of doing this, is of all people, Iran. Trouble is, such a common market is dependent on its members being real democracies with transparent government, at least to some degree. Which of course, leaves Iran, in its current form, out of the picture.

But if such a common market would ever evolve, with perhaps Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Qatar, and a few others, it would easily challenge the EU on an economic level.

To double the irony, Iran might be to a MECM in the same position as Russia is to the EU--too large to join.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-20 11:22|| 2007-08-20 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Get all your sand needs fulfilled there. The finest sand north of Riyadh.

Posted by ed 2007-08-20 13:27|| 2007-08-20 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 This more or less fits. IIRC 'anbar' means something akin to 'storage depot' or 'caravan truckstop' in Persian. The province was named when the area was under Persian control centuries ago.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-20 13:42|| 2007-08-20 13:42|| Front Page Top

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