1949 Communist Party leaders
sentenced to death
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1963 estimated 5,000 Communists executed by Baath since coup
against Gen. Qasim
1964 Pres Arif agreed to ceasefire with Mulla Mustafa
Barzani
1972 Saddam visited Moscow to push for strategic agreement
with Iraq
1974 Border dispute between Iran-Iraq led to gunfight
killing 23 Iraqis 30 Iranians
1984 Iraq fired missiles at Dezful, Iran shelled Basra,
Khanaqin, Mandali
1988 Iraq restarted attacks on Iranian shipping Iran
retaliated in kind
2002 CIA presented covert action plan against Iraq
2003 Australian Premier Howard met Bush Bush said Saddam
would leave power or US
would
remove him
2003 France Germany Russia statement called for more time
for inspections Doused
US hopes
France would back 2nd UN Res on Iraq
2003 UK intel report said attack on Iraq would increase
threat of terrorist attacks by
Al Qaeda
2003 New Yorker article reported UnderSecDef Feith’s office claim
that Iraq
connected to
Al Qaeda and supporting Zarqawi
2003 German officials investigating Zarqawi said found no
evidence he was linked to
Iraqi govt
2003 US defense attache report that he looked at Benin
warehouse and found no
uranium
headed for Iraq Inspection done in Dec 2002
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 CPA Order 57 created Inspector Generals in each Iraqi
ministry to fight
corruption
2004 Car bomb hit Iskandiriya Babil police station killed 50
2004 Report almost all of SecState Powell’s 03 UN speech on
Iraq WMD and ties
to terrorism proved wrong
2005 NSC staffer Zelikow told Rice Iraq failed state stuck
in violence
2006 Report 1920 Revolution Brigades Amman Brigades
Mujahadeen Army working to
expel Al
Qaeda in Iraq from Ramadi after it killed head of Albu Fahad tribe
2006 Fmr CIA Natl Intel officer for Near East Pillar said
intel on Iraq was cherry picked
by White
House to justify war
2007 Gen Petraeus replaced Gen Casey as US commander in Iraq
2009 Sen Kerry went to Syria to try to improve relations as
part of Obama’s new Iraq
policy of including neighbors in
strategy
2016 Abadi said he wanted technocrats to replace existing
ministers
View the Iraq History Timelines
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