This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 2

1981 Islamic Conf Organization met with Saddam Said he wanted ceasefire in war

            and wanted to know what Khomeini wanted

1984 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn them back

            in southern marshes

1988 VP Bush told Iraq that it could buy dual use equipment for its WMD program from

            US

1991 Shiite revolt spread to Suq al-Shuyukh and Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar after Gulf War

1991 Shiite rebels attacked military intelligence headquarters in Basra

1991 UN Resolution 686 required Iraq to accept 12 previous UN resolutions on Kuwait

            pay reparations end annexation of Kuwait release POWs return stolen property

1992 UN investigation found that govt had executed hundreds of Shiites in southern

            marshes in recent months

1992 Peshmerga launched counterattack upon Iraqi army in Kalak 60 killed

1993 After southern no fly zone created Iraqi forces began shelling and infantry attacks

            upon southern marsh villages 

1998 UN Resolution 1154 allowed weapons inspectors at Iraq’s presidential palaces

1999 Wash Post reported that US intelligence was using UN inspectors to spy on Iraq

            something it denied in Feb

2003 Senior admin official told NY Times UN weapons inspectors would not lead to

            anything

2003 Report US and UK increased air strikes in Iraq as part of no fly zone Were trying

            to weaken air defenses before invasion

2004 5 Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombers hit Karbala and Khadimiya during Ashura

killing 270 wounding 570

2015 offensives to free Tikrit began

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