This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 7

1921 American consul in Baghdad wrote that Faisal would become King of Iraq

            even though he was unpopular in the country

1973 Police Chief Kazzar and 20 other coup plotters found guilty and given death

            sentence

1973 Baath Regional Congress expanded membership to accommodate Saddam

            supporters

1987 UN Resolution 598 called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

1991 Iraq Foreign Min Hussein told UN that it would make a declaration of its

            nuclear program

1991 Hussein said Iraq had not violated Non-Proliferation Treaty or IAEA safeguards

1991 Iraq’s concealment committee met Decided to reveal details about nuke program

            after inspectors found site

1991 Concealment committee decided to secretly destroy WMD programs and

            materials to hide them from inspectors

1991 Would prove long term problem because Iraq could never fully prove what it

            destroyed and what it was hiding to inspectors

1997 Turkey withdrew its forces from Kurdistan after killing over 2,000 PKK fighters

2003 CPA suspended Iraq’s old banking laws as part of reform program

2003 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn't go to war with Iraq because it had dramatic new

            evidence of its WMD programs

2003 White House admitted Bush’s State of Union claim Iraq tried to buy uranium

            from Africa shouldn't have been used

2003 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told White House spokesman Fleischer fmr Amb

            Wilson’s wife sent him to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger uranium deal

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

2003 SCIRI dropped objection to joining Iraqi Governing Council after lobbying by

            UN

2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report on UK dossier said was not sexed

            up by Blair govt

2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said Blair govt didn’t mislead parliament but

            misstated some of the intel on Iraq’s WMD

2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said claim Iraq could use WMD in 45 min

            should not have been so prominent in dossier

2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report said UK dossier on Iraq WMD

            should’ve been more qualified on story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa

2003 State Dept intel agency sent memo to DepSec State Armitage originally from

            June that said Iraq-Niger docs were fakes

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

2004 Gen Casey told Bush 70% of Fallujah Brigade had joined insurgency

2004 Sen Intel Comm found major judgements in Oct 02 Natl Intel Est on Iraq’s

            WMD and nuke program were overstated and generally not supported

2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel claims Iraq had WMD and programs larger than

            before Gulf War were overstated

2004 Sen Intel Comm found US had evidence Iraq buying dual use equipment Uncertain

            Iraq had destroyed its WMD stocks after Gulf War

2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel didn’t have much good info on Iraq’s WMD

            and nuke programs after UN inspections ended in 1998

2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel suffered from group think Assumed Iraq had

            WMD Assumed everything it did was to expand those programs

2004 Senate Intel Comm report on pre-war intel found that all of CIA’s claims about

            Iraq renewed nuke program were wrong and weak to begin with

2004 Sen Intel Comm found CIA justified to claim Iraq-Al Qaeda might have

            cooperated based upon pre-war intel

2005 Iraq and Iran’s Defense Ministries signed military cooperation agreement

2005 Report Human Rights Min said Iraqi forces carried out random arrests not using

            warrants torturing and abusing prisoners

2005 Report Human Rights Min official said Iraqi forces conducting extrajudicial

            killings and govt not doing anything about it

2005 Report $8.8 bil went missing in Iraqi ministries during CPA period 03-05

2006 Bush said Americans were wondering if US could win Iraq war Said US was

            winning

(Musings On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)

2006 Gen Casey given investigative report on Marines killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha

2006 Integrity Commission head Radi said weak institutions and lack of punishment led

            to uncontrolled corruption

2008 Maliki said he wanted a memo of understanding on withdrawal of US forces instead

            of a Status of Forces Agreement which was stalled

(Musings On Iraq article on negotiations over SOFA)

2008 Female suicide bomber hit market in Baquba 23rd female suicide bombing of the

            year

(Musings On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)

2008 Report 94% decline in attacks by ISI 25 in Nov 07 vs 334 Nov 06

(Musings On Iraq article on ISI attacks)

2013 Pres Barzani visited Baghdad to try to resolve problems with Maliki

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