1921 Gertrude Bell wrote King Faisal was unpopular and
resented for being
Installed
by the British
1931 Iraqi newspaper called for one party rule under an
autocrat King Faisal
1980 Iraq began attacking Dezful Ahvaz Khorramshahr in
Khuzistan province
1980 Iraq shelled Abadan refinery largest in world Iran
retaliated Air raids
on Iraqi
oil facilities in Basra Zubayr Mosul Kirkuk
1997 Op Dawn Turkey invaded Kurdistan to attack PUK and PKK
1997 UN inspectors caught Iraqis trying to flee food factory
with suitcases of docs
on making
WMD
1997 UN inspectors attempted to inspect Special Security
Office but denied
2002 Bush said couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam in war on terror
because they were equally evil
2002 Rice said there had been important contacts between
Iraq and Al Qaeda
2002 DefSec Rumsfeld and CIA DepDir McLaughlin briefed NATO defense
ministers
on Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties
2002 US & UK worked on draft UN resolution demanding
inspectors return to Iraq
2003 Bush said 9/11 changed how he viewed Iraq as a threat
to US
2003 Powell announced 6 month deadline for Iraqis to draft
new constitution
2003 House Intel Comm wrote letter to CIA Dir Tenet
criticizing pre-war intel on Iraq’s
WMD and
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties after review
2003 Aqila al-Hashemi of Iraqi Governing Council died of
wounds from an ambush
in Baghdad
2003 Baghdad hotel used as base for NBC News bombed 1 guard
killed
2007 ISI bombed meeting of police sheikhs and leaders of
Hamas of Iraq and 1920
Revolution
Brigades in Baquba
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