This Day In Iraqi History – Jan 13

1916 Ottomans retreated 10 mil up Tigris after defeat of Battle of Sheikh Saad

            and were beaten again by British at Battle of Wadi

1968 6 ministers from Pres Arif’s govt resigned after anti-govt protests demanded

            return to democracy

1972 Bakr govt said it would take power away from Iraq Petroleum Company

1983 Report China was supplying both Iraq and Iran with weapons during Iran-Iraq

            War

1987 Iran started Op Karbala 6 in Qasr-e-Shirin central Iran to divert Iraqi forces

            from Basra Freed 100 sq mi of Iranian land

1991 UN Sec Gen deCuellar went to Baghdad to try to avert Gulf War

1993 US UK and France carried out air and missile strikes on Iraq for not cooperating

            with UN inspectors

1998 Iraq stopped work with UN inspectors complaining about too many US and UK

            members

2003 Bush met Saudi Amb Bandar Gave assurance that US would remove Saddam

2003 Bush told Powell he’d decided on war and needed his support Powell said he

            would back president

2003 Powell reminded Bush that if US invaded Iraq it would have to run the country

2003 Powell decided he had to play out diplomacy with Iraq at UN despite Bush’s

            decision to go to war

2003 NSA Dir Adm Hayden ordered decentralization of intel so that it could be

            distributed to combat units during Iraq invasion

2003 Blair TV speech said Iraq could give WMD to terrorists and US and UK could

            act against Iraq without 2^nd UN resolution

2003 Lord Goldsmith told Blair and Foreign Sec Straw that there needed to be a 2^nd

            UN resolution against Iraq to go to war

2003 State Dept intel analyst told other analysts Iraq-Niger uranium docs were probably

            fake 2 CIA analysts said they saw problems with docs but didn’t think fakes
(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2003 UnderSecDef Feith called ex-Gen Jay Garner to run postwar Iraq and he accepted 2

            months before invasion

2003 IAEA head El Baradei said inspectors needed a few months to finish work in Iraq

2004 US soldier in 800^th Military Police reported abuse by his unit at Abu Ghraib prison

            and handed over photos

2005 Fmr Sec State Baker said US occupation of Iraq undermined US support for war

            and made US look imperialist in Middle East

2005 Ayatollah Sistani representative assassinated in Baghdad

2005 US National Intelligence Council Iraq became new terrorist training ground in

            world replacing Afghanistan

2006 Report after US forces handed over Saddam palace in Tikrit in Nov 2005 Iraqi

            forces and Salahaddin officials looted it

2010 Joint Iraq-Peshmerga-US checkpoints opened in Diyala’s disputed territories to

increase cooperation amongst parties

2014 Tribal Military Council tried to unite all the insurgent groups in Fallujah
2018 Dawa announced members could run separate in elections PM Abadi formed Nasr

            VP Maliki would run with State of Law

(Musings On Iraq article on Dawa’s decision to allow PM Abadi and VP Maliki to run separate in 2018 elections)

 

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