This Day In Iraqi History – Feb 6

1977 Bakr govt put down Shiite protests killing 16 and arresting around 2000

            Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and others arrested

1991 Jordan’s King Hussein condemned Saudis for letting Arab land be used to attack

            Iraq during Gulf War

1999 Guardian reported that Dec 98 Iraqis met with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan Claimed

            Iraq offered bin Laden asylum

2001 US and UK launched largest air strikes on Iraq in 2 yrs to destroy fiber optic

            communications system Iraq trying to install

2002 CIA officials told NY Times Iraq not taken part in any anti-U.S. terrorism since

            1993 attempt on ex-Pres Bush

2002 US intel officials told NY Times 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague

2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw wrote Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith challenging need for 2^nd UN

            resolution to go to war with Iraq

2003 Press revealed most of UK intel dossier on Iraq trying to hide WMD was

            plagiarized from a US college student’s paper

2003 NYTimes Washington Post USA Today editorials all said Powell’s UN speech

            convinced them of Iraq threat

2003 Khalizad met with Turkmen Front Kurds Turks to try to make deal between

            Ankara and Kurds to facilitate using Turkey for invasion

2004 Bush announced Silberman-Robb commission to look into U.S. pre-war intel

            on Iraq’s WMD after none found

2004 Report DIA said CURVEBALL intel on Iraq mobile WMD labs was questionable

            in 02 Never passed to rest of intel community

2006 US Iraq Amb Khalizad said US talking to Iraqi insurgents in Anbar Syria Jordan

            Anbar Sheikh Fahadawi assassinated for taking part in talks

2007 Iranian diplomat detained by Iraqi police commandos and accused CIA of

torturing him after his release

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