1929 PM Sadoun shot himself due to criticism he faced over
his performance
1963 Baath National Guard commander Wandawi began bombing
Rasheed Camp
while Guard
rampaged through Baghdad
1963 Baath Sec Gen Sadi said party run by new 15 member
council headed by Bakr
1981 UN Resolution 36/27 again criticized Israel’s
destruction of Osirak nuclear
reactor and
said Israel should pay for damages
1982 Saddam ran informal referendum backed by pro-Saddam marches
1986 Rev Command Council meeting believed Israel was behind
Reagan selling
weapons to
Iran in Iran-Contra scandal
1991 Saddam replaced Interior Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid
with Wathban
Ibrahim
Hassan
1997 Iraq expelled US members of UN weapons inspectors
accusing them of being spies
2002 Iraq accepted UN Resolution 1441 to allow UN weapons
inspectors
2002 Blair said that goal of resolution was disarming Iraq
not regime change
2002 Blair told UK cabinet that 1441 meant military action
could be taken against
Iraq in
case of violations without a 2nd resolution
2003 US forces launched Op Iron Hammer to hunt down
insurgents in Baghdad
2005 US forces found 173 prisoners in secret prison in
Baghdad run by Badr unit of
Interior Ministry Prisoners were
tortured
2005 18 Sunni men found handcuffed blindfolded and shot in
Baghdad
2006 Bush met Iraq Study Group Said Iraq part of ideological
struggle in world
Said US
needed to back Maliki
2006 Iraq Study Group didn’t think Bush knew what victory in
Iraq meant besides
platitudes
2006 Iraq Study Group met with US Cmdr Iraq Gen Casey who
said Iraqis had to
eventually
take control of own affairs
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Iraq Study Group that
sectarian violence
problem in
Iraq but Maliki only talked about Baathists
2006 Iraq Study Group met CIA Dir Hayden who said Maliki
govt only talked about
Baathists
not sectarian violence
2006 CIA Dir Hayden told Iraq Study Group stable and
democratic Iraq may not be
possible
2013 Fallujah’s mayor killed by a sniper
View the Iraq Study Group
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