1922 UK Sec of War Evans wrote cabinet Iraqi army weak
British military presence
small Iraq
vulnerable to Turkey tribal unrest so UK should withdraw from Mosul
1963 Baath-military coup against
Gen Qasim Started with assassination of Air Force
chief
Radio station at Abu Ghraib seized
1963 Defense Ministry where
Qasim was bombed during coup Communists took to
streets
and fought army in Baghdad
1963 National Council of the Revolutionary Command created
to run new govt
1963 CIA allegedly supported 1963 coup because Qasim’s
Communist support Gave
Baath lists
of Communists to eliminate
1980 Saddam proposed pan-Arab charter of non-aligned Arab
states to oppose
superpowers
in region
1992 Report Bush authorized $30 mil CIA program to overthrow
Saddam
2003 Bush said Iraq tried to buy equipment for WMD Saddam
authorized his
commanders
to use chemical weapons
2003 Iraq turned over new documents about its WMD programs
to UN inspectors
that was
called substantial
2003 UN inspectors went to site CURVEBALL defector claimed
was secret WMD facility
and found
nothing
2004 After Iraq Survey Group said it found no stockpiles of
WMD Bush said they
could still
be found and Saddam was still dangerous
2004 Report British intel spied on UN Security Council in
2003 during deliberations
on 2nd
resolution to authorize force vs Iraq
2004 Japanese troops arrived in Iraq for first overseas
deployment since WWII
2006 Senate Foreign Relations Comm told oil electricity
water sewage all below
pre-war
levels in Iraq
2007 ISI told new Baiji refinery director general that only
Sunnis were to be hired at
the
facility
2011 Parliament human rights comm opened investigation of
Camp Honor secret
prison in
Baghdad run by Maliki Nothing came of it
2014 IS joined Fallujah Military Council and agreed to
cooperate with other militant
factions
2015 Peshmerga destroyed villages in 5 districts in southern
Kirkuk
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