This Day In Iraqi History – Aug 30

1962 KDP bombed Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline

1968 Pres Bakr shut down Iraqi offices of Arab Socialist Union and ended Iraq-Egypt union plans 1992 Reports that govt arrested Shiites in south and moved them into camps

1996 State Dept attempted to mediate ceasefire between KDP-PUK KDP denied that it had any deal

            with Baghdad

2002 Blair decided UK strategy would be to get UN to issue resolution that would give ultimatum

            to Iraq on inspectors or else

2003 Iraqi Governing Council announced 17 candidates for first-post Saddam cabinet

2006 Bush said if US left Iraq before job done would become terrorist state and undermine US

            leadership

2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq head Khazali said that Chief Justice Medhat should resign and Election

            Commission should be ended

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