Who conducted a sneak attack on the U.S. dollar this week?

It began with a thinly sourced but highly explosive report Monday in a British newspaper: Arab oil sheiks are conspiring with the Russian's and Chinese to quit using the dollar to set the value of oil trades — a direct threat to the global supremacy of the greenback investors aren’t feeling as secure about the dollar as they used to. I say they need to keep a close watch on this because there is no say what this may lead into and could possibly affect the u.s

20 families sent to exile

Twenty families who were sent into exile in Iran by Saddam Hussein following a failed uprising returned Thursday .The families, about 250 people, crossed the border near the southern, oil-rich city of Basra, families were exiled following their involvement in a failed uprising against Saddam in 1991. The families, mostly from the Basra area, settled into refugee caps on the Iranian border.People were very shoked and not long as these people crossed the border they sufferd in camps back in iran.

marking period 1...confused

Its the last week before the the first marking is over and honestly i have to say that i really have no clue what i am being taught.Its not that the teachers aren't doing their jobs .I just don't know what it is going on with me personally . Everything that i learning now I've been taught before. you would think that it would be easier but it not.Its really sad because I'm already lacking and its only the first marking period.So i need to make it my mission to update myself in all my classes , hand in any all that i am missing an work hard to become a better academic learner in school.