1960 Cleric Muhsin al-Hakim issued fatwa against joining the
Communist Party
1974 Iran-Iraq border dispute discussed at UN after
firefight killed more than 50
1974 UN got Iran and Iraq to agree to talks to resolve
border dispute
1979 Iraq recognized the new revolutionary government in
Iran
1984 Iraq launched missiles and air strikes on Dezful, Iran
leaving 105 casualties
during war
of cities
1986 Iraq counter attacked to retake Fao from Iranians
1987 Iran started Op Fatah 4 attacking Kurdistan
1988 Saudi King Fahd called Saddam worried about Iran’s new
Basra offensive
1991 Russian diplomat Primakov went to Baghdad to try to
arrange withdrawal from
Kuwait
Saddam demanded end of sanctions in return
1995 Iraqi army brigade attacked and suffered heavy losses
at hands of Badr Brigade in
Qurna
2001 Rumsfeld said Iraq was probably not a nuclear threat at
this time
2002 Powell told Senate that regime change in Iraq was US
policy since Clinton
Said no
plans for invasion though
2002 DIA report Iraq tried to buy 500 tons of yellowcake
uranium from Niger
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie who
was named in Iraq-Niger
uranium
deal docs Denied story
2003 UN inspectors announce Iraq’s Samoud 2 missiles violated
range limits set by UN
2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq had larger WMD program
then before Gulf War
2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq would get a nuclear
weapon sooner or later and
would have
missiles to deliver it
2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate US had briefed UN on all
suspected WMD
sites
Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites
2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate there were Iraq-Al Qaeda
contacts but no command
and control
2004 CENTCOM commander Gen Abizaid’s convoy attacked in
Fallujah
2004 UN rep to Iraq Brahimi met with Ayatollah Sistani about
why early elections
not
possible Brahimi said Iraq had to go through process to organize vote
2006 Jaafari won re-nomination of United Iraqi Alliance for
premiership with support
of Sadr
2006 Pres Talabani said Kurdish list refused demands to
exclude Allawi’s Iraqiya from
govt coming
from Sadr
2007 Gen Petraeus went to Anbar and endorsed Awakening and
said model should be
copied in
rest of Iraq
2010 Election Commission banned 458 candidates for Baath
ties from vote after
court had
unbanned them
2010 Election Commission under pressure from Maliki to ban
candidates
View the Iraq History Timelines
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