1918 British invaded Ottoman’s
Mosul vilayet after WWI armistice
1978 Arab summit in Baghdad VP Saddam worked to expel Egypt
for Camp David
Accord with
Israel Backed by Syria
1978 Pres Bakr told Arab summit Iraq and Syria needed to
deal with Camp David
Accord as a
single country
1983 Iraq warned merchant ships to avoid northern end of
Persian Gulf due to Iran-Iraq War
1990 IAEA inspection said Iraq had not diverted any nuclear
material to its bomb program
2003 Rumsfeld said both Clinton and Bush administrations believed
Iraq had WMD
2003 US Chinook helicopter shot down near Fallujah Killed 13
soldiers Deadliest
post-invasion
attack on US up to that point
2003 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez said violence in Iraq was
strategically insignificant
2006 Joint Chiefs briefing US Iraq strategy not working US
running out of time to change things
2006 Joint Chiefs briefing US not winning in Iraq which
meant US losing
2015 Parliament voted to support Abadi’s reforms but had to
approve his moves
2015 Supreme Court ruled vice presidents could not be
dismissed as office is in
constitution
overturning Abadi’s move
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