This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 28

1982 Saddam ordered Iraqi forces to withdraw from Shush Lost 3 divisions

            25,000 casualties 15-20,000 captured

1982 Iran suffered 30,000 casualties due to human wave attacks during Op Fath

            ol-Mobin to retake Shush

1990 US-UK officials seized equipment at Heathrow Airport meant for nuclear triggers

1991 SCIRI head Hakim said Shiite rebels in south only fighting in rural areas after

            lost cities to Iraqi army

1991 Iraqi intelligence memo said it had contacts with bin Laden

1997 Sec of State Albright said Iraq had lied and blocked UN inspections Said inspections

            and sanctions had contained Iraq

1998 UN Res 1154 okayed agreement between UN Sec Gen and Iraq to allow inspectors

            into presidential palaces and other sites

2002 Arab League called on Iraq to comply with all UN resolutions and end

            sanctions Rejected military action

2002 Gen Franks briefed Joint Chiefs on Iraq war plans Said he would be ready by

            10/1/02

2003 Gen Wallace Cmdr US V Corps told press war not going as planned due to

            resistance of Fedayeen

2003 US 173^rd Airborne Brigade and Peshmerga took Irbil

2003 US and UK military meeting Surprised Iraqis weren’t rising up against Saddam

2003 UN Res 1472 extended Oil for Food program for 45 days after US

            invasion

2003 US forces received warning of imminent WMD attack

2003 Rumsfeld accused Syria of sending military aid to Iraq

2003 British accused Syria of allowing foreign fighters to use its territory to enter Iraq

2003 Chief weapons inspector Blix said US gave up on inspections in early 2003

2003 Aid ship arrived in Um Qasr Basra with 200 tons of food medicine and

            blankets for Iraqis

2003 Bush told group of veterans important to win the peace after the war

2004 CPA shut down Sadr’s al-Hawza paper for inciting violence

2006 Anbar Revenge Brigade claimed it killed 4 Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders and a member

            of Ansar al-Sunna

2007 ISI set off chlorine bomb in Anbar

2007 Police and militias carried out retaliatory attacks on Sunnis in Tal Afar after truck

bombing day before

2008 Maliki offered money to militiamen that turned in their weapons during Charge

            of Knights op against Mahdi Army

2008 Government spokesman said talks going on with Sadrists

2008 Maliki met with tribes in Basra that supported government

2008 U.S. and British planes bombed Mahdi Army in Basra

2008 Mahdi Army fired rockets at Badr offices in Amarah, Maysan

2008 Fighting in 13 neighborhoods in Baghdad between Mahdi Army and ISF

2008 Pres Talabani met with Gen Suleimani about stopping fighting between govt

            and Mahdi Army

2009 Counterterrorism Unit arrested Fadhil Sahwa leader in Baghdad on terrorism

            charges leading to firefight

2010 Supreme Court ruled that any coalition that gained a majority after elections could

            get 1^st opportunity to form a new govt

2010 Supreme Court ruling undermined Allawi’s Iraqiya right to form a new govt and

            gave it to Maliki’s State of Law

2012 Baghdad said it would pay KRG $558 mil for Kurdish oil exports from budget

2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed fighting for it in Syria

2014 Families from Qara Tapa, Diyala started fleeing militias

2016 Abadi said wanted 9 member cabinet with Electricity and Defense ministers

            staying

2017 Kirkuk council voted to fly the Kurdish flag over government buildings in

            province

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