1997 Iraq banned UN weapons inspectors from presidential and
sovereign sites
1999 UN Res 1284 created
UNMOVIC as new Iraq WMD inspection regime
1999 UN Res 1284 got rid of export oil quotas and eased
import restrictions under Oil
for Food
Program
2001 Incoming Sec of State Powell said sanctions on Iraq
should continue because it
still had
WMD
2001 Iraqi defector Haideri provided by INC told CIA Iraq
had secret WMD labs He
later
failed lie detector test and story proved false
2001 Czech Intel said story of 9/11 hijacker Atta meeting
with Iraqi intel in Prague
didn't happen
2001 White House said anthrax attacks in U.S. came from
domestic sources not Iraq
2002 Powell hinted that US would reject Iraq’s weapons
declaration to UN inspectors
2002 US inspected warehouse in Benin where uranium headed
for Iraq allegedly
stored but
found nothing
2002 CIA said that Iraq did not include trying to buy uranium
from Niger in its
declaration
to UN inspectors
2003 Report Sunday Telegraph story that 9/11 hijacker Atta
travelled to Baghdad in
01 was
probably false
2004 Bush briefed by DIA that insurgency was robust and
strong and could lead to
civil war
without reconciliation
2007 Report Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was a fake played by
actor and Masri real leader
of ISI
Story was false
2011 Baghdad Ops Command announced arrest warrant for VP
Hashemi on terrorism
charges
2014 Peshmerga began offensive to break IS siege of Mount
Sinjar
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