1979 U.S. placed Iraq on list of State Sponsors of Terrorism
for backing
Palestinian
terrorist Abu Nidal
1981 Syria said it would start talks with Iran to try to end
Iran-Iraq War
1990 Joint Chief head Gen Powell told CENTCOM Cmdr Gen
Schwarzkopf to be
ready to
start Gulf War by 1/17/91
1996 Dawa announced campaign to assassinate top Iraqi
officials
2002 US Senate authorized war against Iraq
2003 Iraqi Governing Council voted to replace family laws
with sharia
2004 Insurgent safehouse blows up in Baghdad killing 28
2005 Zarqawi took responsibility for rocket attack on Israel
Said he was fulfilling
promise to
bin Laden
2005 US military found 3 more secret prisons run by Badr
within the Interior
Ministry
where torture used
2013 Head of Anbar council called for end of Ramadi protests
in exchange for
govt
releasing MP Alwani
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