This Day In Iraqi History – Dec 1

1918 UK PM George asked Fr PM Clemenceau to renegotiate Sykes-Picot

            giving Mosul to British

1918 England got France to agree to give it most of Mosul in return France got stake in

            Iraqi oil and Syria

1971 Iraq broke relations with Iran and UK, expelled Iranian nationals turned to

            Soviet Union for support

1971 Iraq arguing with Iran over Shatt al-Arab and Tehran funding and arming Kurds

            in alliance with US and Israel

1987 Iran attacked Fakeh area north of Basra

1997 Weekly Standard special issue on removing Saddam featuring neoconservative

            writers like Wolfowitz Khalilzad Kagan

2000 UK Intel report Iraq contained but if sanctions ended Saddam would start

            rebuilding WMD programs

2001 Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin revising war planning for Iraq

2001 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks was only given 3 days to revise Iraq war plan

            and present it to Rumsfeld

2001 NY Times article quoted DepSecState Armitage saying US was going to force Iraq

            to allow UN inspectors to return

2001 NY Times article said White House looking into options to support Iraqi

opposition groups

2003 Iraq physicist book claimed Iraq never rebuilt nuclear program after 90s and US

            exaggerated threat

2003 Report Iraqi scientists said Saddam never close to building a nuclear bomb

2004 KDP and PUK announced Kurdistan Coalition for Jan 2005 elections

2004 Report Army warned Dec 03 that military-CIA Task Force 121searching for

            WMD abused Iraq prisoners

2004 US announced it would increase troops from 138,000 to 150,000 for Jan 2005

            elections

2005 Kurdistan Islamic Union sent letter to Dohuk govt saying they wanted security for

            planned KDP demonstrations at their offices

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