This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 17

1937 PM Hikmat Sulaiman govt resigned over threat of military coup or civil

            War

1937 Jamil al-Midfai became premier for 3^rd time
1987 Iraq told UN it wouldn’t accept any changes to Resolution 598 that proposed

            ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

2000 Iraq reopened Saddam International Airport to get around UN sanctions

2001 US Energy Dep report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for

            rockets not centrifuges

2003 CPA told White House if didn’t get additional $20.3 bil would be disaster for

            Bush’s plans for Iraq

2003 Water pipeline in Rusafa Baghdad hit with RGP knocking out water for 2 days

            for 300,000 people

2003 US forces killed Reuters reporter outside Abu Ghraib prison Said camera looked

            like an RPG

2004 Allawi govt offered amnesty and role in govt to Sadr in return for ceasefire in 2^nd

            Battle of Najaf

2004 NSC meeting discussed US attacking Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf and possibly

            killing Sadr

2006 Bush held national security meeting to rethink Iraq strategy Bush told staff Iraq

            policy going bad and wanted new one

2006 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told Bush Iraqis may not be up to task of securing

            Baghdad

2010 ISI suicide bomber hit army recruits in Baghdad killing 60

2012 VP Biden called Maliki about Iran flying military supplies to Syria over Iraqi

            airspace

- 2015 Judicial Council rejected call for Chief Justice Medhat to resign

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