1936 Planes dropped flyers over
Baghdad demanding PM Yasin Hashemi’s
resignation as troops marched on
capital in coup
1936 PM Hashemi asked for King Ghazi’s support When didn't
get it offered his
resignation
1936 Parliament building bombed in coup
1936 Def Min Askari was assassinated by Gen Bakr Sidqi
coup plotters
1990 UN Security Council said overtures to Iraq had failed
and talked about
alternatives
but came up with nothing
1990 Bush said US wouldn’t rule out use of force against
Iraq for Kuwait invasion
1997 Tariq Aziz said no Americans would be allowed as
inspectors accusing them of being
spies
1997 IAEA suspended all its work in Iraq
2003 Bush said he supported Bremer’s plan for Iraq but
that it could be speeded up
2004 CIA report said that Iraqi elections would likely
lead to opposition from Sunni
Arab govts
2004 1st Lancet report on Iraqi casualties
claims 100,000 Iraqi civilians died since
invasion
mostly due to Coalition
2004 1st Lancet gained huge publicity but is
mostly discredited by experts
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded Japanese civilian Shosei
Koda
2004 Report US forces reached Al Qaqaa nuclear site during
03 invasion then left and
site looted
of high grade explosives
2015 VP Maliki said PM Abadi removing Vice Presidents was illegal
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