1929 Abd Sadoun became premier
for 4th time
1936 UK officials met Nuri al-Said
in Paris to discuss him mediating Palestine dispute
Turned
out he just wanted to promote Iraq
1980 Iran began heavy shelling of Shatt al-Arab, Basra and
attacked ships in
waterway
precursor to Iran-Iraq War
1983 Iran said if major powers kept backing Iraq they would
have oil cut off to them
1991 UN Resolution 712 offered oil for food program again
Iraq rejected 2nd time
1996 CIA Dir Deutch told Senate Intel Comm Saddam was in
stronger position then
he was
before
2001 Iraq intel paper said Afghan source claimed bin Laden
Taliban and Iraq worked
together to
target America Never confirmed
2001 Bush asked CIA Dir Tenet to look into Iraq-Al Qaeda
ties and said VP Cheney
had info on
links
2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz sent ex-CIA Dir Woolsey to
England to look into
Iraq 9/11
& 1993 World Trade Center connections
2001 Chalabi told Pentagon’s Def Policy Board they should
invade Iraq not
Afghanistan
2002 Pentagon’s Def Policy Board met arguing for removing
Saddam
2002 Saddam sent letter to UN saying it had no WMD or
nuclear weapons
2002 Rumsfeld told Senate that UN weapons inspections were
weak and weren’t going
to find
anything
2002 US said Iraq didn’t mention trying to buy uranium from
Niger in its UN
declaration
2002 Powell told House committee there was debate about
Iraq’s intent on buying
aluminum tubes but Saddam trying to
get nuke technology
2002 New intel said Iraq might have offered training to Al
Qaeda and safe
haven to
bin Laden in 1990s
2003 CPA issued new rules for banking in Iraq to reform
finances and to open up
country to
foreign investment
2003 Saddam’s Def Min Gen Hashim Ahmad surrendered to US in
Kirkuk after
negotiations
2004 Blair said Iraq was center of global war on terror
2005 Militia controlled police arrest 2 British soldiers
leading to rescue mission by
British forces
that ended in gun battle with Mahdi Army
2006 US commander in Ramadi got Marine division commander in
Anbar to back
Awakening
2006 Fmr Vice Army chief of staff Ret Gen Keane told
Rumsfeld US close to
strategic
failure in Iraq
2006 Ret Gen Keane told Rumsfeld US strategy was to withdraw
not defeat
insurgency
2006 Ret Gen Keane told Rumsfeld US needed more troops in
Iraq to protect
population
otherwise change impossible
2006 Pres Talabani told Bush security problem was US not
arming ISF sufficiently and
needed less
US troops in Iraq
2014 France carried out first air strikes against IS hitting
Zummar, Ninewa
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