1949 Communist leaders hanged by PM Said to try to squash
opposition
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1958 Iraq and Jordan announced Arab Federation in response
to Egypt and Syria’s
United
Arab Republic Kuwait asked to join but said no
1983 Sec of State Shultz met with Iraq’s For Min Hammadi who
asked for expanded
trade deals
1986 Iraq counterattacked to try to re-captured Fao
Peninsula Failed
1991 During funeral for member of Hakim family anti-Saddam
slogans chanted in
Najaf
1991 Iraq said it would withdraw from Kuwait if Israel
withdrew from Palestine sanctions
ended and
Iraq’s foreign debt forgiven
2002 National Sec Adv Rice called Blair For Pol Adv Manning
saying US was only
reviewing
its Iraq policy
2003 Chief Inspector Blix briefed Security Council on Iraq
inspections Said found no
evidence of
WMD
2003 Blix said 400 inspections at 300 sites Were all without
notice and gained entry
every time
Said Iraqis cooperating
2003 Blix said soil samples showed no signs of WMD Iraq
still had unaccounted for
materials
Found 2 banned missiles
2003 Blix refuted Powell’s claim that Iraqis were cleaning
WMD sites before
inspections
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said it had dismembered Iraq’s
nuke program in 1998 and
found no
evidence that it had been restarted yet
2003 El Baradei said Iraq had provided documents for why
aluminum tubes it tried to buy
had such
specific specifications
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Powell told Security Council Iraq not cooperating with
inspections and use of force
still an
option
2003 Saddam issued presidential directive banning companies
from importing
equipment
for WMD
2003 Rumsfeld gave speech that U.S. was opposed to nation
building in Iraq
2003 Wash Post editorial supported war with Iraq
2003 NSC met over how to respond to a coup in Iraq Didn’t
think it was likely but had
to plan for
it
2004 Fallujah police station attacked by insurgents dressed
in ISF uniforms killing
more than
20 officers and releasing prisoners
2004 US intel report Al Qaeda captive al-Libi recanted story
Iraq trained Al Qaeda in
poisons and
explosives
2004 Libi’s story of Iraq training Al Qaeda in poisons and
explosives were used in
US intel
reports and Powell’s UN speech
2007 Baghdad Security Plan under Surge began
2016 Hakim criticized Abadi’s call for ending quota system
saying that PM got
his job
because of quotas
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