1922 UK Sec of War Evans told Foreign Office it should back
King Faisal because
that would
allow UK to exit Iraq and escape expenses of running country
1984 Iraq warned that it could use chemical weapons against
next Iranian offensive
1986 Iraq fired poison gas shells at Iranians in Fao
Peninsula Bad weather dissipated
effects
1991 Russia announced proposal for Iraq withdrawal from
Kuwait in return
for lifting
of sanctions US rejected offer
1999 Govt killed 20 protesting assassination of Ayatollah
Sadiq al-Sadr by Saddam
and
arrested 250 across Iraq
2002 Fmr Amb Joseph Wilson left for Niger to investigate
Iraq buying uranium from it
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 ORHA staff met in DC to have run through their Iraq
postwar plans
2003 Blair met Bush at Camp David to reaffirm their alliance
to remove Saddam
2004 Report US did not brief UN inspectors on 21 of 105 WMD
sites in Iraq US claimed
it gave
info on all sites
2004 UN Secretary General Annan said UN was ready to assist
Iraq with elections but
couldn’t
happen before end of June 2004
2006 PBS Frontline show “The Insurgency” said Iraqi
insurgency expanded and
Islamists
replaced former regime members as leaders
2008 Op Sun 800 Turkish troops entered Kurdistan to attack
PKK
2011 Group of men attacked protesters in Baghdad’s Tahrir
Square while police looked on
2015 National Alliance MPs complained that Abadi didn’t
consult with them about his
reforms
2015 Sadrists said Abadi missed great chance to reform
country Sadrists had been
Abadi’s
main supporters
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