1922 King Faisal apologized to British Iraq High Commissioner
Cox for
Anti-British
remark made at a party
1968 Mulla
Barzani had his two ministers resign from Bakr govt because Baath was
backing Jalal
Talabani
1981 85 POWs exchanged between Iraq and Iran in Cyprus 2nd
prisoner exchange
of
Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iraq demanded UN arms embargo on Iran for not
accepting ceasefire deal and
threatened
new air strikes
1987 U.S. signed 5 year trade agreement with Iraq mostly
for farm products Support US
gave Iraq
during Iran-Iraq War
during Iran-Iraq War
1988 End of 5th Anfal campaign
1992 US, UK, France started Operation Southern Watch
creating southern no fly
zone over
Iraq
1994 Iraqi Vanguard for National Salvation took
responsibility for car bomb in
Baghdad
2002 Cheney speech called Iraq a mortal threat to US
2002 Cheney said Iraqi defectors like Hussein Kamal proved
Iraq had renewed its
nuke
program
2002 Hussein Kamal defected to Jordan in 1995 Said Iraq
had ended all its WMD
and nuke
programs
2002 Cheney said no doubt Iraq had WMD and that it was
good at deceiving
weapons
inspectors
2002 Powell argued that US had to go through UN to deal
with Iraq at National
Security
Council
2003 Report US left thousands of munitions dumps all over
Iraq which were looted by
insurgents
and militias
2003 Bremer Iraq could not pay for its own reconstruction
and U.S. would have to
put up
several billion dollars to do it
2003 Bremer CPA could not meet Iraq’s electricity needs
until summer of 2004
2003 US launched Op Ivy Needle to hunt down criminals and
Baathists in Salahaddin
2003 DepSecState Armitage said US might consider a
multinational force under UN to
help with
security after rejecting UN role
2003 Humanitarian aid groups announced pulling out workers
from Iraq after terrorist
attacks
2015 Pres Masum implied that some of Abadi’s reforms were
unconstitutional
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