1953 Mohammed al-Jamali became
premier
1975 Iran and Iraq ratified border treaty between two
1980 Saddam TV speech Said Iran violated 1975 Algiers
Treaty Backings Kurds
Refused to
return Iraqi territory Lead up to Iran-Iraq War
1980 Saddam abrogated 1949 Treaty of Good Relations &
1974 Algiers Treaty with
Iran Lead
up to Iran-Iraq War
1980 Saddam claimed Iraq had sovereignty of Shatt al-Arab
waterway in Basra
Lead up to
Iran-Iraq War
1980 Heavy fighting broke out between Iraqi and Iranian
forces Shatt al-Arab Lead
up to
Iran-Iraq War
1995 SCIRI claimed it attacked 3 Iraqi army positions in
Baghdad in September
1997 UN inspectors watched Iraqis moving files and burning
documents while waiting
for access
to a WMD site
1998 Italian paper claimed Iraq offered bin Laden safehaven
if he was expelled from
Afghanistan
2001 Bush said he believed Iraq was involved in 9/11 to
his national security staff
2001 Bush signed paper directing military to make plans
for invading Iraq
2001 Bush told Pentagon it needed to be ready to deal with
Iraq if it acted against
US
interests
2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfwotiz sent memos to Rumsfeld
advocating for attacking
Iraq
2001 Sen Allen told CNN US might think of regime change in
Iraq
2002 National Security Strategy for Bush admin released
Called for preemptive war to
deal with
rogue states
2003 Bush said no evidence Iraq involved in 9/11 but Iraq
had ties to Al Qaeda
2003 Saddam audio tape released on Al Arabiya called for
US to withdraw from Iraq
and to
increase attacks
2004 British forces raid Sadrist headquarters in Basra
2004 Draft of Iraq Survey Group report said Saddam wanted
to produce WMD but
had no
stocks or programs
2004 Draft Iraq Survey Group report said only WMD Iraq had
were poisons for
assassinations
by Iraqi intelligence
2006 Anbar Salvation Council issued ultimatum for Al Qaeda
in Iraq to leave Anbar
2008 SIIC accused Maliki of creating Tribal Support
Councils to bolster his support
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