This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 17

1927 Lord Cecil said British public opinion was overwhelmingly against staying in

            Iraq

1954 PM Umari resigned so he could go on annual vacation to Turkey to escape summer

            heat in Iraq

1981 Col Qaddafi announced he would go to Tehran and Baghdad to try to negotiate

            ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Libya supported Iran  

1996 UN said Iraq smuggling oil through Iranian waters breaking sanctions

2003 CIA report to Dir Tenet said that Niger-Iraq uranium story was dropped because

            based upon fake docs

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2003 CIA report that it found docs at Iraqi scientist’s home that proved Saddam

            had nuke program Proved false

2004 PM Allawi promised reprisals against insurgents after suicide bombing of Iraqi

            army base

2004 Bush refuted 9/11 Comm saying Iraq-Al Qaeda had connections and that was why

            Iraq was a threat

2004 Cheney said 9/11 Comm didn’t look at the overwhelming evidence of Iraq-

Al Qaeda connections Claimed he had intel on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties that 9/11 Comm didn’t That intel later proved false

2008 Truck bomb by Mahdi Army or Special Group in Baghdad killed 63 wounded 70

US forces claimed bombing meant to stop return of displaced Sunnis and provoke sectarian fighting

(Musings On Iraq article on Hurriya bombing)

2009 US held talks with Syria to try to stop foreign fighters travelling through country

            to Iraq

2011 ISI took responsibility for killing deputy head of deBaathification Comm

            Lami

2011 Anbar councilman said Syria still supporting insurgency

2011 Maliki organized second march for his government in Baghdad and Karbala

2011 Protests held in Baghdad and Dhi Qar against corruption Baghdad protesters

            attacked by Maliki supporters 2^nd time

2012 Sadr said he would not accept a 3^rd term for Maliki

2012 MP Othman said that KDP wanted Maliki out while PUK didn’t

2013 Kataib Hezbollah attacked Mujahedeen e-Khalq camp with rockets

2013 Badr said one of its men died fighting in Syria before its presence officially

            announced

2013 Exxon signed 3^rd contract with KRG to explore for oil in Sulaymaniya

2013 Sadrists maintained control of Maysan governorship in new govt

2013 State of Law-SIIC-Sadr alliance formed new govt in Qadisiyah SIIC got

            governorship 

2014 Security operation to clear Qaim, Anbar began

2014 Tuz Kharmato declared freed

2014 Rawa Ana Saqlawiya Amiriya Fallujah Ramadi Khalidiya in Anbar all

            decalred freed half of them weren’t

2014 Insurgents attacked 3 neighborhoods in Baquba, Diyala along with Hit

            and Garma in Anbar

2014 Prisoner that was wounded when Hashd executed 43 prisoners in Baquba

            was taken from hospital by police and killed

2014 Maliki dismissed Gen Gharawi head of Ninewa Ops Command for fall of

            Mosul

2014 Hezbollah’s Nasrallah said that Shiite shrines in Iraq needed to be

            protected from insurgents Said that Hezbollah would send men to fight in Iraq

2015 Sadr blamed Maliki’s authoritarianism for return of insurgency

2016 PM Abadi prematurely announced liberation of Fallujah

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