This Day In Iraqi History – Oct 6

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 1^st 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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