1933 King Faisal I died
1980 Iraq demanded Iran surrender frontier towns that Iraq
claimed
1985 Iran attacked Rawandoz, Kurdistan Iran-Iraq War with
KDP seizing large
amount of
land
1988 US accused Iraq of using poison gas against Kurds
during Anfal
1994 UK intel report said that it didn’t think Iraq had
declared all of its chemical
program
2002 Day 1 of White House PR campaign about Iraq WMD and
nuclear threat
2002 NYT article quoted Iraqi defector saying Iraq renewed
WMD program Had large
stockpiles
2002 NYTimes article quoted 2nd Iraqi defectors Said
Saddam wanted to restart nuke
program
2002 Bush admin leaked story to NYTimes that Iraq was
trying to buy aluminum tubes
for
centrifuges for nuke program
2002 Rice and Cheney went on TV repeating claim Iraq
rebuilding nuke program Used
aluminum
tubes as proof
2002 Rumsfeld Powell Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers all
appeared on talk shows
promoting
Iraq as a threat due to WMD and nuke program
2002 1st time admin official said proof of
Iraq’s nuke program “may be a mushroom
cloud” that
would be repeated by others later on
2003 Iraq constitutional commission endorsed general
elections for new constitution
2003 Bremer OpEd in Wash Post Iraq had to go through 7
steps taking 2-3 yrs for Iraq
to regain
sovereignty
2003 UK Def Min Hoon said Britain would send 1000 more
troops to Iraq to help with
security
2011 Gunmen killed radio personality Hadi Mahdi after he
posted on Facebook that he
was
receiving threats from pro-Maliki loyalists for supporting protests
2014 Haidar al-Abadi became new Iraq premier
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