1916 Battle of Sheikh Saad ended
with British beating the Ottomans
1917 Battle of Mohammed Abdul Hassan between Ottomans and
British
1917 British began assault upon Khadairi Bend fort
1959 Gen Qasim blocked Communists’ application to be
recognized as political
party
1990 Iraq opened 2nd oil pipeline with Saudi
Arabia
1991 Sec of State Baker met with Iraq For Min Aziz and
failed to end Kuwait
crisis
1991 Bush sent Baker to Baghdad to convince people he was
trying all options to
resolve
Kuwait crisis
1991 Baker warned Iraq not use to use WMD in upcoming Gulf
War
1991 Iraq said that if it was attacked it would strike
Israel
1991 Bush sent request to Congress to use force against Iraq
in Kuwait
2002 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on latest
war plan
2002 Powell called Gen Franks concerned that Rumsfeld was
trying to push as small
an Iraq
invasion force as possible
2003 Head UN weapons inspector Blix said no smoking gun
found in Iraq but
didn’t mean
there were no WMD
2003 Head UN inspector Blix said Iraq’s Dec weapons
declaration was incomplete
2003 White House spokesman said US knew for a fact Iraq had
WMD
2003 Pentagon asked Jay Garner to head ORHA to run postwar
Iraq 2 months
before
invasion He initially said no
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were probably for
rockets not
nuclear program
2003 White House responded to IAEA saying Iraq spinning it
over aluminum tubes
2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Talked about
Turkey’s refusal to allow in US
troops
2003 Gen Franks worried about Jordan and Saudi Arabia
staying on board for war
2003 Gen Franks said he’d be ready for invasion by Feb 03 but
March would be better
2006 Foreign Min Zebari told Amb Khalilzad Ayatollah Sistani
and Iran’s Gen
Suleimani
would likely pick next candidate for premier after 05 vote
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