1961 Govt forces began ground offensive to put down Mustafa
Barzani Kurdish
revolt
1980 Saddam said that Iran would not fight Iraq because it
was afraid
Lead up to
Iran-Iraq War
1980 Saddam said that Iraq had to regain all the disputed territory
it claimed from Iran
1986 Iraq air strike on Iran’s Lavan oil terminal
Iran-Iraq War
1990 UN Resolution 667 demanded Iraq release foreign
nationals it detained in Kuwait
1991 Mohammed Zubaidi became Iraq’s premier
2001 Bush said unless Iraq connected to 9/11 it would be
dealt with diplomatically not
with force
2001 Cheney asked on NBC was there any evidence linking
Iraq to 9/11 He said no
Said focus
was on Al Qaeda
2001 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey said stories of 9/11 hijacker
Atta meeting with Iraqi
intel
showed Iraq needed to be investigated
2002 Iraq told UN it would allow new weapons inspections
with no conditions
2002 VP Chief of Staff Libby & DepNatlSecAdv Hadley
briefed by Pentagon group
that Iraq
and Al Qaeda had cooperated
2002 New draft of UK dossier on Iraq said it had recently
produced WMD but no
evidence
2003 Rumsfeld said he believed US intelligence that Iraq
had WMD
2003 Rumsfeld said no evidence Iraq involved with 9/11
2003 Rice said one reason US invaded Iraq was because he
was from Middle East
where 9/11
attacks came from
2003 Senior Iraqi scientist said WMD programs dismantled
by UN inspectors in 90s
2004 UN Sec Gen Annan told BBC that US invasion of Iraq
was illegal
2004 July Natl Intel Est on Iraq leaked to press Best case
Iraq would remain unstable
Worse Iraq
would break out into civil war
2007 Blackwater guards fired at car in west Baghdad
killing 17 civilians
and
wounding 20
2008 Pres Barzani told US Amb Crocker that Maliki was
beginning to act like a
dictator
2009 US closed Camp Bucca prison which had served as
recruiting ground for
insurgents
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