1958 Mustafa Barzani returned to
Iraq from exile in Soviet Union for talks with
new
Qasim govt
1980 Iraqi army surrounded Khorramshahr, Iran and street
fighting began
1986 Heavy Iraq air strikes on Kharg Island Iran oil
terminal
1994 Iraq puts troops on Kuwait border & threatened to
stop working with UN
weapons
inspectors
1997 inspectors told UN that progress made on Iraq’s missile
and chemical programs
but still
missing info
1997 IAEA provided last report on inspections Said if any
info was left was a political
decision
2002 Bush said Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in a year if
got enriched uranium
2002 Dep Nat Sec Adv Hadley asked CIA Dir Tenet if story of
Iraq trying to buy
uranium
from Niger could be put back in Bush speech Tenet said no
2003 1st battalion of Mahdi Army graduated in
Basra
2003 Iraq produced 4,518 megawatts of electricity exceeding
CPA target by 118
megawatts
2004 Iraq Study Group report said Iraq’s WMD destroyed in
1991
2006 Bush told Maliki had to ignore news coming out of US
because domestic
politics
2006 Maliki told Bush he couldn’t ignore US news like talk
about dividing Iraq or
immediate
withdrawal
2006 Maliki told Bush he was going to push reconciliation
fighting terrorism and
militias
2010 Obama adm review of Iraq policy VP Biden said wanted
Maliki to stay as PM &
Obama
agreed
2015 Badr’s Amiri criticized Abadi’s reforms as full of
mistakes and disorganized
2015 Teachers in Sulaymaniya and Halabja struck over unpaid
wages
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