1949 Ali Aiyubi became premier of Iraq
for 2nd time
1981 Report that Soviet Union resumed arms deliveries to
Iraq after ban when Iran-Iraq War started
1983 Dawa members including Abu Muhandis set off 5 bombs at
US and French embassies and
other targets in Kuwait killing 6 wounding 80
1996 Oil for Food program started operating in Iraq
1999 UN Res 1281 extended Oil for Food Program for Iraq
2001 Ansar al-Islam formed from 3 Kurdish Islamist groups
2002 USAID said Iraq would be small intervention but
security needed to be first priority
2002 NSC committee presented humanitarian plan for postwar
Iraq based upon
secure
environment and small US role
2002 IAEA went to Al Qaim facility US claimed was an
active Iraqi nuclear plant
Found it
destroyed
2003 CPA presented list of 1,706 priority projects US and
Iraq didn’t have money
for all of
them
2003 US asked France Germany Russia to forgive some of the
debt Iraq owed them
2003 Russia refused US request to forgive its Iraq debt
after US banned it from
bidding on
reconstruction projects
2007 Def Sec Gates told NSC that Pres Tabalni told him
Maliki was intolerable and
US should
help remove him
View the Iraq History Timeline
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