1987 Dawa set off car bomb in Baghdad killing 20
1988 Ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War announced 350 UN
peacekeepers deployed along border
1995 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that its crash program
to build a nuclear bomb failed
1996 PUK attacked KDP positions in Sulaymaniya with
Iranian artillery and helicopter support
1997 Iraq agreed to allow Iranian pilgrims to go to Najaf
and Karbala as way to get around UN
sanctions
2002 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said Al Qaeda operatives were in Iraq and
that US needed to
launch pre-emptive
strike because couldn't wait for Iraq to get stronger
2003 Bush at NSC meeting said US had to re-evaluate enemy
in Iraq after Zarqawi bombed UN
in
Baghdad
2003 UN said bombing of its Baghdad offices wouldn't stop
reconstruction of Iraq
UN would
withdraw most of its staff
2004 PM Allawi called for Sadr to give up Imam Ali shrine
in Najaf or face US-Iraq assault 2nd
Battle of Najaf
2007 ISCI governor of Muthanna assassinated by Sadrists 2nd ISCI governor killed in a month
2012 US warned that oil companies signing deals with Kurds
without Baghdad’s
approval
were taking risks
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