1915 6th Army created by Ottomans under command
of German Gen von der Goltz
to defend
Mesopotamia from British
1974 Kurdish parliament appointed by Baghdad took office
1975 Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz went to Damascus to discuss
uniting Iraq and Syria
1980 Iraq ended unilateral ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War after
Iran didn’t follow suite and
went back
to fighting
1982 UN called for ceasefire Iraq accepted Iran rejected
1985 Iraq ended air strikes on Kharg Island Iran’s main oil
terminal Hit 21 times but
no lasting
damage
2000 During VP debate Cheney said US might have to take
military action to remove
Saddam in
future
2002 CIA Dir Tenet told White House to remove Iraq tried to
buy uranium from Niger
from Bush
speech Said intel was weak
2002 Knight Ridder article quoted several intelligence
officers that Bush admin
ignoring
dissenting opinions on aluminum tubes
2004 Bremer said US never had enough troops in Iraq while he
was running the CPA
Said
military thought troop levels fine
2005 Parliament changed decision from actual voters back to
registered ones for no
vote on
constitution
2005 Suicide bomber hit mosque in Hilla, Babil killing 27
wounding 87
2005 UK official claimed Iranian Revolutionary Guard and
Hezbollah providing EFPs
to Shiite
militias in Basra to attack British troops
2006 US disbanded 8th Natl Police Bgd Arrested
commanders for kidnapping 26
Sunnis
killing 7 of them in Baghdad
2006 Sunni leaders told Sec State Rice Iraq breaking apart
They were victims of
sectarian
violence & no one protecting them
2006 SCIR head Hakim told Sec State Rice Shiites tried to
work with Sunnis but they were
obstructionists
2006 Sec State Rice told Maliki if there was no
reconciliation US would leave and
Maliki
would end up being hung
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