1961 Gen Qasim ordered airstrikes to put down Mustafa
Barzani Kurdish revolt
1980 In 2 days Iraq seized 5 border posts from Iran Tehran
didn’t retaliate making Saddam
think
reports that Iran weak after revolution were true
1987 Iran said it would agree to UN ceasefire if Iraq named
as aggressor in war
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1997 Iraqi soldier attacked a weapons inspector on board a
helicopter for trying to take
pictures of
vehicles moving inside a suspected WMD site
2001 Bush asked CIA Dir Tenet whether he was looking into
Iraq-Al Qaeda connections
2001 Rumsfeld said attacking Iraq would be good deterrent to
countries that supported
terrorism
2001 Rumsfeld told army to come up with plans for seizing
Iraq’s southern oil fields
2001 DepDefSec Wolfowitz told press US would eliminate
states that sponsor terrorism
2001 US intelligence and counterterrorism agencies meeting
agreed no connection
between
Iraq and al Qaeda Report sent to Bush
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Bush admin went from 9/11 to Iraq invasion)
2001 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey said US needed to look into whether
Iraq rather than Al Qaeda
was behind
9/11
2001 Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie Wall St Journal OpEd
said Al Qaeda not capable of
9/11 and
was probably Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
2002 Bush said US might only be certain Iraq had a nuclear
device when it used one
2002 US official told Knight Ridder Iraq not close to
building a nuclear bomb
2002 NY Times article said majority view within US govt including
Oak Rdige National
Lab was aluminum tubes Iraq tried
to buy were for centrifuges Oak Ridge actually oppsed view the aluminum tubes
were for centrifuges Article said State and Energy Depts dissented on aluminum
tubes but they were in minority
2002 Report if aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges
would be first
step in a
long process to produce enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb
2002 Energy Dept issued order forbidding employees to
mention aluminum tubes Iraq
tried to
buy with reporters
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Defense Dept official told press Iraq had worked on
mobile WMD labs but
inspectors
never found them
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 Rumsfeld called Bremer with idea of immediately giving
sovereignty to Iraq
2004 Report US forces routinely tortured and abused
prisoners in Mosul
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded Turkish civilian Durmus
Kumdereli
2006 Speaker Mashadani said that SICRI plan for federal
region in south was dead Bill on
federalism
would be postponed indefinitely
2007 ISI assassinated Sheikh Abu Risha leader in Awakening
in bombing in Ramadi
2007 Bush gave televised speech saying Surge was making
progress in Iraq
2008 Iran and Iraq agreed on 3 new free trade zones in Wasit
Maysan Sulaymaniya Would
add to existing free trade zone
with Basra Trade was at $.28 bil/yr with $ bil more in illegal trade
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran-Iraq trade deal)
2014 New campaign launched to try to clear Babil’s Jurf
al-Sakhr of IS
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