1914 Ottomans defeated by British at Battle of Qurna and
surrendered Basra
province
1958 Former PM Rashid Ali al-Gaylani arrested by Gen Qasim
for plotting a coup
1985 Saudis announced attempts at talks with Iran to end
Iran-Iraq War failed
2001 VP Cheney said story 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraq
intel officer in Prague was
pretty much
confirmed
2001 Cheney told NBC Iraq hosting terrorists and developing
WMD
2002 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood wrote paper saying
UN Resolution 1441
did not
authorize war with Iraq
2002 UK Foreign Office officially asked Attny Gen Lord
Goldsmith for legal
advice on
whether 2nd UN resolution needed to use force against Iraq
2002 Blair ForPolAdv Manning MI6 head Dearlove met
NatlSecAdv Rice Said start 03
US would go
to UN and argue for military action vs Iraq
2002 UN inspectors found Fallujah II chlorine plant out of
service US listed it as WMD
site
2003 Suicide Car bomb on Mosul camp wounded 41 US troops and
6 Iraqi civilians
2004 22 parties including Dawa SCIRI Sadrists INC announced
formation of United
Iraqi
Alliance for Jan 2005 elections Ayatollah Sistani helped form list
2004 Iraqi Islamic Party submitted 275 candidates for Jan
2005 elections Would be
only major
Sunni party to participate
2004 Bush told families his govt was getting best equipment
for US troops in Iraq after
Rumsfeld
downplayed complaints
2005 Report Al Qaeda’s Libi’s intel about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
that proved false was
acquired
while he was being tortured by Egyptians
2005 Report Feb 02 DIA was skeptical of Al Qaeda’s Libi’s
intel on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
because he
was being held in Egypt
2005 United Iraqi Alliance breaking up into factions after
elections Complaints that it
hadn’t
presented a vision for Iraq because not using qualified people
2006 NSC meeting US Cmdr Iraq Gen Casey told Bush Maliki
agreed to go after
militias
that broke law
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