1984 Iraq restored diplomatic relations with US which had
ended in Oct 1967
1992 Report before Gulf War Bush admin approved sale of computers and
software to Iraq that were
used on missile and supergun
programs
1992 Opposition meeting in Salahaddin, Kurdistan called for
democratic and federal Iraq Made
INC
umbrella org with ethnosectarian quotas
2001 Czech Inter Min said 9/11 hijacker Atta met with
Iraqi intel in Prague
2002 US intel complained to press Pentagon using own intel on Iraq and relying
upon INC
too much
2003 Bremer returned to DC to discuss his long term plan
for Iraq which White House
had turned
against
2003 Rumsfeld told Bremer of plan to return Iraq
sovereignty by Apr 04 Bremer said
needed new
Iraqi govt & constitution 1st
2003 Bush at NSC meeting said US had to stay the course in
Iraq
2003 Gen Abizaid at NSC meeting said US had to bring back
ex-Iraqi soldiers to
rebuild
army Bremer said too risky
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice Iraq insurgency desperate and not
going to succeed
2003 Zarqawi bombed Red Cross HQ and 4 police stations in
Baghdad Sixth attack
foiled 35
dead and 244 injured at start of Ramadan
2003 Saddam called on insurgents to attack Iraqi security
forces rather than U.S. led
coalition
2003 U.S. military blamed foreign fighters for spate of
Baghdad bombings Day before
denied
foreign fighters important in capital
2003 US military Insurgents were paying 10 times as much
for people to carry out
attacks against
US forces
2003 UnderSecDef Feith provided evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda
ties his office had
collected
to Senate Intel Comm
2003 Feith told Senate Intel Comm Iraqi govt knew Zarqawi
entered Iraq in 2002
2004 Report number of IEDs being planted in Iraq went from
500 per months in May &
June 04 to
1,000 by Oct 04
2005 Baghdad insurgent leader told Guardian he supported
voting on Constitution and
opposed Al
Qaeda in Iraq
2011 Salahaddin council voted to start process to become a
federal region Maliki
blocked
move
2015 60 members of State of Law sent letter to Abadi
demanding answers about his
reforms
organized by Maliki
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