1958 Qasim govt gave amnesty to
Kurdish rebels
1986 Iran started Op Karbala 2 attacking Fao Peninsula Built
bridge across Shatt al-Arab Didn’t
gain
much
1996 2nd day of US cruise missile strikes on Iraq
for Saddam helping KDP vs PUK and invading Irbil
1997 UK intel report said Iraq was still hiding parts of its
biological weapons program
2002 Blair press conference said Saddam threat because of
WMD that had to be dealt with
2003 1st post-Saddam Iraq cabinet sworn in with
17 new ministers
2003 US forces gave southern and central Iraq security to
Multi-National Force under Polish
command
2003 CPA Order 28 created Iraqi Civil Defense Corps as
separate from police and army but
would
be folded into ISF later
2003 EU Japan US World Bank agreed to create trust fund for
reconstruction funds for Iraq
independent of CPA
2006 US Dep Iraq Cmdr Gen Chiarelli told Iraq Survey Group
US needed reconciliation
and
political not military solution
2006 US Cmdr training ISF Gen Dempsey told Iraq Survey Group
needed reconciliation
otherwise
training useless
2007 Baghdad took control of Basra Palace as British troops
withdrew from central
Basra
2007 Bush made surprise visit to Anbar to meet with Sheikh
Abu Risha of Awakening
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