bin_forgottin: Iraq is completely controlled by the US....Not one Iraqi is allowed to work in Banking

rebuttal: heres a few examples refuting his claim

http://www.cpa-iraq.org/economy/iraq_private_banks.html

Al-Warka Investment Bank Sabri Shammas 
warkabank@hotmail.com 360-4286
Babylon Bank Abdul Razzak Mansour Saliman 
Bank of Baghdad Mowafaq H. Mahmood
bankdad@uruklink.net 822-7083
Commercial Bank of Iraq Saddoun Kubba
commerce@uruklink.net 360-4188
Credit Bank of Iraq
Details in: English Fouad M. Mustafa
creditbkiq@yahoo.com 360-0494
Dar Es Salaam Investment Bank
Details in: English | Arabic Asad al-Khudhairy
asadalkhudhairy@yahoo.com 360-4646
Gulf Commercial Bank Mudher Mustafa Al-Hillawi
Gulfbank1@yahoo.com 360-4241
Investment Bank of Iraq Abbas Hadi Al-Bayaty
investmentiraq@yahoo.com 360-4243
Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank Abdul Razzak M. Ali 360-4242
National Bank of Iraq Ghassan Kamal Jamil
nationalbank_iraq@yahoo.com 360-2345

select the Union of Arab Banks, on 19 and 20 of the month of November as the date for Anaaked Annual Arab Banking Conference for 2009 in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

A statement of the Federation received by the independent press (Iba) today, Sunday, a copy of the conference will be held in cooperation with the International Union of Arab Bankers and a number of regional and international organizations under the banner of inter-Arab investment in light of an emerging global economic system.

He added that the conference will be under the auspices of the official participation of the heads of the Councils of Ministers and Ministers of Finance and Economy in the Arab world and central bank governors and senior officials of financial institutions and Arab and international banking. 

The Union held during the days, the ongoing annual forum for the commitment and risk management under the theme "approach to the Basel Committee proposals for the new 2009" attended by directors and managers of risk management, credit risk management and directors and managers of units to combat money laundering.

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