1948 March by railway workers and students against
Anglo-Iraq treaty fired
upon by
police killing some
1970 failed military coup against Pres Bakr led by ex-Gen
Rawi and Col Samarraie
backed by
Iran
1970 Iran expelled Iraq’s ambassador military attache and
four embassy staff over
failed coup
1970 Shah of Iran opposed to Baathism’s Pan-Arabism and
socialism Moved troops
to border
after coup leading to war scare
2003 Military Industrialization Commission ordered its
director generals to come
forward
with any info on WMD
2003 White House gave report to Congress on Iraq’s
noncompliance with UN inspectors
included
Iraq not mentioning trying to buy uranium
2003 National Sec Presidential Dir 24 gave Pentagon control
of postwar Iraq
2003 Pentagon would dismiss previous NSC planning for
postwar Iraq and kick out
State Dept
officials
2003 Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance
(ORHA) created to
run
post-war Iraq 2 months before invasion
2003 UK announced it deployed ground forces for Iraq War
2003 France’s For Min deVillepin said there was no
justification for war against Iraq
2003 Powell furious at French statement because took threat
of war off table at UN
and
strengthened Saddam
2004 Bush’s State of the Union said US was committed to
spreading democracy to
Iraq
2004 Bush’s State of the Union said Iraq Survey Group found
Iraq’s WMD programs and
if US
hadn’t invaded Iraq would still have them
2006 Dec 05 election results announced United Iraqi Alliance
128 seats Kurds 53
Accordance
Front 44 Iraqiya 25 National Dialogue Front 11
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq said Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi had
become emir of new
Mujahedeen
Shura Council
2006 Amb Khalizad met with Iyad Allawi and Fadhila head
Jabiri Jabiri promised PM
spot if he
broke with United Iraqi Alliance and backed Allawi Sunnis and Kurds
2006 Iyad Allawi told his followers he would get Fadhila
head Jabiri to back him as PM
after he
broke with United Iraqi Alliance
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard
planned op attacked
Karbala
Center and kidnap and kill 5 US soldiers
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