MUSINGS ON IRAQ: This Day In Iraqi History

Monday, September 10, 2018

1921 1^st Iraqi cabinet formed under newly coroneted King Faisal

1922 King Faisal returned to office after appendices removed Thanked UK Iraq

High Comm Cox for silencing opposition

1958 Arif dismissed as Deputy Commander in Chief of Armed forces because of

his opposition to Gen Qasim

1960 Gen Qasim convened meeting in Baghdad of Iran Kuwait Saudi Arabia Venezuela

to raise oil prices

1980 Iraq seized Saif Saad, Iran along border Next 2 wks were 15 border incidents

mostly in Basra

1980 Iranian F-14 Tomcat shot down an Iraqi Su-22

1990 Iran and Iraq renewed relations as Saddam attempted to secure his eastern

border before Gulf War

1996 70,000-75,000 Kurds fled towards Iran to escape KDP-Iraqi offensive against

PUK

2001 Time reported Bush administration discussed overthrowing Saddam

2001 US and UK planes hit three Iraqi air defense systems in largest strikes since Feb

2002 Blair speech said Iraq not an imminent threat but had to be dealt with before it

became one

2002 Draft of UK dossier on Iraq’s WMD included claim Iraq could deploy battlefield

WMD in 45 minutes Came from Iyad Allawi’s Iraqi National Accord Said it had bought large amounts of uranium Had mobile WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2002 NSC meeting on Bush’s UN speech Rumsfeld and Cheney argued against going

to UN Draft of speech didn't call for UN action on Iraq

2002 US Intel officers told Wash Post not strong link between Iraq and Al Qaeda

2002 European Commission President Romano Prodi warned that a U.S. unilateral war

in Iraq would undermine U.S. foreign policy and its anti-terrorism coalition

2002 Iraq took journalists to Tuwaitha site that US claimed was a nuclear facility Were

shown three empty and broken down buildings

2006 Report US delinked Shiite death squads from political parties they came from to

not confront Iraqi govt

2006 ISCI renewed calls for law to allow southern province region Opposed by Sadr

Fadhila Iraqiya Iraqi Accordance Front

2007 Gen Petraeus and Amb Crocker began 2 days of testimony to Congress on

progress under Surge

2014 US authorized $25 mil in immediate military aid to Iraq

2014 Obama announced a new coalition to fight IS

2015 Protests in Baghdad Babil Karbala Najaf Qadisiyah Muthanna Dhi Qar Wasit

Maysan Basra Diyala demanding reform

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