1948 students in Baghdad protested against 1930 Anglo-Iraq
Treaty Broken up by police
1981 Iran claimed it destroyed Iraq’s oil industry in
Iran-Iraq War Was just damaged
1999 Iraqi opposition claimed Baghdad executed 100
dissidents in Nov 1998 who
were
arrested during 91 uprising
2003 UK For Pol Adv Manning told Blair US almost given up on
inspections because
wanted immediate
action against Iraq
2003 Manning warned that US was pushing for war as soon as
possible
2003 US Natl Intel Council report said building democracy in
Iraq would be long and
difficult
2004 Bin Laden said US war in Iraq attempt to control
region’s oil and start of holy war
in Middle
East
2005 Report US considered embedding US advisors within Iraqi
units to speed their
development
2006 Bush told Maliki surge happening and he had to publicly
back it and could
not stop US
ops
2007 Baathist leader Izzat al-Dhuri declared war on Sadr and
Hakim
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