This Day In Iraqi History – Dec 30

2002 UK Foreign Sec Straw and Sec of State Powell thought UN inspections would

            not provide smoking gun against Iraq so alternatives needed

2002 UN inspectors said they had gone to all major suspected WMD sites and

            found nothing

2002 Report Reagan admin and its Middle East envoy Rumsfeld did nothing while

            Iraq used WMD in Iran-Iraq War

2003 White House meeting on what to do about Governing Council going to UN

            to ask them with help to transition to sovereignty

2003 White House decided they would try to block any UN plans for Iraq because

            wanted to keep control of process

2003 White House meeting then turned to security Cheney said he wanted to

            eliminate Sadr

2005 Oil Min Uloom put on leave after opposing govt plan to increase prices on gas and

            cooking oil Replaced by Dep PM Chalabi

2005 South Korea’s parliament okayed plan to withdraw 1/3 of its forces from Iraq

            Korea had 3^rd largest Coalition force in Iraq

2006 Iraqi govt hanged Saddam Hussein while Sadrists taped it and chanted Moqtada

2006 Naqshibandi insurgent group formed

2013 Anbar sheikhs gave govt 12 hour ultimatum to release PM Alwani

2013 Maliki shut down Ramadi and Fallujah protest camps Led to call to arms in city

            in protest and gunfire

2013 Gunmen appeared in Fallujah after protest site there closed setting up checkpoints

            and fighting with ISF

2013 Maliki used death of army's 7^th Div cmdr to shut down Anbar protest sites helping

            insurgency’s re-birth

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