1915 British forces launched campaign to capture Baghdad
starting in present
day Wasit
1980 Iraq began seizing border posts from Iran Precursor to
Iran-Iraq War
1997 UN Res 1129 allowed greater oil exports under Oil for
Food Program
2001 Bush asked Richard Clarke to look into whether Iraq
involved in 9/11
2001 Top officials within Bush White House talked about Iraq
being behind
9/11 attack
2001 Pentagon meeting on 9/11 CIA said was sure Al Qaeda
behind attack Wolfowitz
questioned
that and said Iraq must have been involved
2001 Rumsfeld said not enough good targets to bomb in
Afghanistan so US should
bomb Iraq
instead
2001 Rumsfeld said that Saddam should be overthrown Joint
Chiefs Head Gen
Shelton
said that was only possible via large invasion
2001 White House told CIA to come up with covert plan
against Iraq
2001 Jund al-Islam formed in Kurdistan from Kurdish
Islamists and fighters fleeing Afghanistan
2001 Czech intel source said he saw 9/11 hijacker Atta meet
with Iraqi intel in Prague
Apr 2001
2001 Ex-CIA Dir Woolsey said didn’t matter who was
responsible for 9/11 solution
had to
include removing Saddam from power
2002 Bush UN speech Said Iraq growing threat Could build a
nuclear bomb within a
year if got
materials
2002 State Dept paper Decade of Deception and Defiance said
Iraq building up its
WMD and
nuclear program
2002 White House paper claimed Iraq trained terrorists in
hijacking planes using
explosives
2002 French For Min said France supported UN resolution on
Iraq but UN should
decide
action if Iraq didn’t comply
2003 US forces opened fire on 2 Iraqi police cars in
Fallujah killing 8 police and
wounding 4
others
2004 PM Allawi said Saddam’s trial would go ahead despite
rising violence
2011 insurgents took bus in Anbar and killed 22 Shiite
pilgrims
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