This Day In Iraqi History – Oct 3

1932 Iraq gained independence from Britain

1968 Soviet Union called for negotiations between Baghdad and KDP rebels

1978 Ayatollah Khomeini left Najaf for Paris after Baghdad demanded he reject politics

            in deal made with Shah of Iran

1980 Iraq Foreign Minister Hamadi presented Iraq’s case to UN claiming it acted in

            self-defense in Iran-Iraq War

1980 Khomeini speech said goal of war was to punish the Baath and rejected

            negotiations to end it

1982 Sudan said it would send troops to help Iraq in Iran-Iraq War

1996 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that it hid part of its missile program and then

            secretly destroyed them in March 92

2002 Bush signed executive order to train 5,000 Iraqi exiles to help with invasion

2002 US planes dropped flyers over Iraq telling them not to fight Americans

2003 Bush said interim report by Iraq Survey Group justified invasion because found

            WMD programs

2003 Rice US went to war with Iraq because most likely place terrorists could get WMD

2014 Australia authorized air strikes against IS and Special Forces to be sent to Iraq

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