This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 11

1961 After Gen Qasim rejected Barzani Kurdish rights plan he called for revolt

            against govt

1961 Kurds ambushed an Iraqi army column starting Kurdish revolt against Gen Qasim

            govt

1980 Iraq sent protest letter to Iran about border incidents Said Iran violated intl law

            and Iraq would defend itself

1982 Iraq agreed to Arab League ceasefire proposal including withdrawing from

            Iran $70 bil in reparations Iran said no

1985 Iran seized western Majnoon Islands Iraq counterattacked but failed

            to dislodge Iranians Did stop advance

1990 Iraq released edited version of Saddam’s meeting with US Amb Glaspie Saddam told Amb

Glaspie Iraq would take military action vs Kuwait if it didn’t give into Iraq’s Demands

1995 KDP took control of all of Kurdistan after pushing PUK out with help of

            Iraqi army

2001 Bush asked whether Iraq was involved in 9/11 because Saddam backed

            Palestinian terrorists

2001 Bush said that US should get rid of Saddam and told some aides to look into

            Iraq-Al Qaeda connections

2001 Rice told UK Amb to US Meyer that White House was looking into whether Iraq

            involved in 9/11

2001 5 hrs after 9/11 Def Sec Rumsfeld wrote memo asking for info on whether

            should attack Saddam and Iraq

2001 At NSC meeting Rumsfeld brought up bombing Iraq

2001 Counterterrorism chief Clarke said Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were taking

            advantage of 9/11 to push their Iraq agenda

2001 Italian intelligence told CIA that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger

2002 UK intel report that Iraq was producing WMD 7 days a week in facilities

            throughout the country

2002 Blair said parliament had to discuss Iraq and WMD

2002 NSC got okay from CIA to use claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from

            Niger in speech by Bush but wasn’t used

2002 UK Intel report warned overthrow of Saddam would increase chances of WMD

            falling into hands of terrorists & terrorism overall

2002 Blair told Parliament war with Iraq would increase terrorism threat but Saddam

            giving WMD to terrorists was larger concern

2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Saddam connected to terrorism & Al Qaeda and bin

            Laden now trying to work with ex-Baathists

2003 Report Pentagon made no detailed plans for postwar Iraq Hoped Chalabi and INC

            would take over govt

2006 Bush speech US being tested like Cold War and withdrawing from Iraq would

            be catastrophe US strategy at time was to withdraw from Iraq

2008 US turned over security for Anbar to Iraqi forces

2015 Kataib Hezbollah said no Hashd or lovers of Islam should join protests Claimed

            they were being controlled by US

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