1948 Communists led protests against new Anglo-Iraq Treaty
Fired upon by police
4 killed
Led to large sectors of country to turn against treaty
1981 UN Envoy Palme visited Iran and Iraq to try to
negotiate ceasefire in war
1995 UN asked Iran to relocate 4,000 Shiite refugees away
from border which Iraq
had claimed
was being used for base for attacks
2003 UN inspectors found 12 missile warheads that could
carry WMD not included
in Iraq’s 2002
weapons declaration
2003 Blair told cabinet 2nd UN resolution was
not necessary for military action against Iraq
even
though he was told it was
2003 Future ORHA head Garner met with Rumsfeld and
UnderSecDef Feith Rumsfeld
said no
coordination of postwar planning
2003 Rumsfeld told future ORHA head Garner he needed to
consult with different US
agencies
coordinate postwar plans
2003 Garner said in WWII US spent years planning for
postwar and he was only given
a few weeks
for Iraq
2003 CIA received docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal
Sent to State Dept to be
translated
Turned out to be fakes
2003 UnderSecDef Feith memo to Rumsfeld said Iraq-Syria
pipeline should be kept
open after
invasion to see whether Syria would cooperate with US
2004 US military spokesman Gen Kimmit talked about
allegations and investigations
into Abu
Ghraib prison abuse
2004 30,000 Protested in Basra against U.S. installing an unelected
provincial govt
2012 Baghdad complained to Turkey’s ambassador about
Ankara accusing Maliki of
spreading
sectarianism Turkey did same to Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara
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