1938 Golden Square army colonels overthrew PM Jamil Midfai
for trying to
remove
pan-Arab officers
1938 Coup backed by Nuri al-Said who became PM and Taha
al-Hashimi who became
Minister of
Defense Rashid al-Gaylani became Chamberlain of Royal Office
1963 Arif govt promised to settle problems with foreign
oil companies
1980 Iraq air forced bombed Iran’s main oil terminal at
Kharg Island for 1st time
2002 Niger Premier said that his country did not try to
sell uranium to Iraq
2002 UK Foreign Secretary Straw told Sec of State Powell a 2nd
UN resolution was needed
to gain UK
political support and legal justification for war
2003 Report President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board found White House
disregarded
warnings by CIA about Iraq-Africa uranium story
2004 Rumsfeld told troops in Iraq insurgency could be
defeated
2005 National Security Adv Rubaie met with Ayatollah
Sistani Said Sistani rejected
calls for
revote due to complaints and violations
2005 National Security Adv Rubaie said Iraq would re-arrest
Baathist officials just
released by
US
2005 Iraq court barred 90
candidates from election for Baathist ties
2013 Maliki ordered ISF to surround Ramadi protest site
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