1987 Iraq attacked 2 Iranian merchant ships in Iran-Iraq War
40 ships hit by both Iran and Iraq in
next 2
weeks
1988 Bazi Gorge in Kurdistan attacked by Iraqi forces with
chemical weapons killing around 3,000
Kurds 6th
Anfal
1996 Iraqi National Accord discovered impending Iraqi attack
on Kurdistan and KDP had made
deal with
Saddam
2002 Bush signed Iraq: Goals, Objectives, Strategy that said
US would use all means to remove
Saddam
2002 Bush and Blair talked about tough UN resolution on Iraq
disarmament and how Saddam
wouldn't
comply leading to conflict
2002 Bush okayed war plans for Iraq
2002 UK Foreign Office paper said rebuilding Iraq would be a
long and costly affair
2002 IAEA spokesman in London Times No evidence Iraq
rebuilding nuclear facilities Would be
easy to
find by spy satellites
2003 SCIRI head Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim killed in Najaf Imam
Ali shrine car bombing by
Zarqawi 125
killed 500 wounded
2003 Car bomb driven by Yassin Jarrad father of Zarqawi’s
second wife
2007 Sadr announces freeze of Mahdi Army after fighting with
Badr in Karbala
2007 Petraeus wrote about Anbar Awakening and Sahwa and how
they improved security in Iraq
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