1955 Iran joined Iraq, England,
Turkey security agreement Would become
anti-Communist
Baghdad Pact
1961 KDP banned by Gen Qasim and several leaders arrested
due to Mustafa Barzani’s
Kurdish revolt
1986 Iran ended Op Karbala 3 in Fao Peninsula and Majnoon
Island
1986 Soviet For Min Shevardnadze told UN that USSR was
attempting to negotiate
end to
Iran-Iraq War
1989 Kuwait Emir given medal by Saddam in Baghdad for help
during Iran-Iraq
War
1991 UN inspectors found 4 lockers full of secret nuclear
documents in Baghdad
facility
but were seized by Iraqi army
2001 Rice told CNN Iraq would be stage two of war on terror
2002 Blair told cabinet Iraq dossier would show Iraq
expanding WMD capabilities
and erosion
of sanctions one cause
2002 Educ Sec Morris asked Blair what had changed about Iraq
to go to war other than
Bush being
elected
2002 Inst for Science & Intl Security argued against US claim
that aluminum tubes Iraq
tried to
buy were for nuke weapons program
2003 Bush speech at UN said Iraq was frontline in war on
terror
2003 Fr Pres Chirac & UN Sec Gen Annan speeches at UN
criticized Iraq war saying
US
undermined international system
2003 Gallup pol majority of Iraqis thought life would be
better in 5 years 2/3 of
Baghdadis
said removing Saddam was worth hardships
2003 Iraqi Governing Council member Aqila Hashemi died after
being shot 3 days
before
outside her home
2004 Allawi visited White House asking for more
reconstruction money and bringing
back old
army units
2006 Army chief of staff called Gen Petraeus to review Iraq
policy
2006 DefPolicyBoard member Adelman told Rumsfeld he was a
failure as SecDef and never
took
responsibility for Iraq
2007 ISI accused Hamas of Iraq and 1920 Revolution Brigades
of killing its members
2016 Sunni tribal Hashd began destroyed 220 homes in Aithah
Salahaddin belonging
to IS
sympathizers
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