1953 Mohammed al-Jamali became PM Cabinet included 7 Shiites
most ever
Presented reform package which
parliament rejected eventually bringing down his govt
1975 Iran and Iraq ratified border treaty between two
1980 Saddam called emergency session of parliament and
announced 1975 Algiers
Treaty on border and Shatt al-Arab
with Iran was voided Blamed Iran’s constant violations of Iraqi sovereignty for
failure of 1975 treaty Said Shatt al-Arab needed to be Arab as it had been
throughout history
1980 Saddam gave TV speech Said Iran violated 1975 Algiers
Treaty was backing
Kurds Refused to return Iraqi
territory Saddam then abrogated the 1949 Treaty of Good Relations and 1975
Algiers Treaty Also claimed sovereignty over Shatt al-Arab waterway
1980 Heavy fighting broke out between Iraqi and Iranian
forces in Shatt al-Arab
1995 SCIRI claimed it attacked 3 Iraqi army positions in
Baghdad in September
1997 UN inspectors watched Iraqis moving files and burning
documents while waiting
for access
to a WMD site
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
1998 Italian paper claimed Iraq offered bin Laden safehaven
if he was expelled from
Afghanistan
False story
1998 Talabani and Barzani met in Washington to announce
power sharing deal in
Kurdistan
2001 Iraq’s Foreign Minister Sabri said that Muslims and
Arabs considered U.S. a
terrorist
state
2001 Bush said he believed Iraq was involved in 9/11 to his
national security staff
2001 Bush told Rumsfeld to continue to revise Iraq war plans
but that it wasn’t a
priority
2001 Bush told Pentagon it needed to be ready to deal with
Iraq if it acted against
US
interests
2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfwotiz sent memos to Rumsfeld
advocating for attacking Iraq
Said better than 10% chance Iraq
behind 9/11Memo used Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie’s claim that Iraq behind
1993 World Trade Center bombing
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Bush admin went from 9/11 to Iraq invasion)
2001 David Wurmser and Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie
talked to media about
possible
Iraq role in 9/11
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
2001 Sen Allen told CNN US might think of regime change in
Iraq
2002 National Security Strategy for Bush admin released
Called for preemptive war to
deal with
rogue states
2002 UnderSecDefense Feith aide told DepDefSec Wolfowitz
Cheney chief of staff Libby
and DepNatlSecAdv Hadley asked for
chronology of 9/11 hijacker Atta’s travels after briefed by Feith’s staff that
Atta met with Iraqi intel officer in Prague in 01
2003 Bush said no evidence Iraq involved in 9/11 but Iraq
had ties to Al Qaeda
2003 Saddam audio tape released on Al Arabiya called for US
to withdraw from Iraq
and to
increase attacks
2004 British forces raided Sadrist headquarters in Basra
2004 Draft of Iraq Survey Group report said Saddam wanted to
produce WMD but had no
stocks or programs Said only WMD
Iraq had were poisons for assassinations by Iraqi intelligence
2006 Anbar Salvation Council issued ultimatum for Al Qaeda
in Iraq to leave Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Marines
Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
2006 Report Inter Min didn’t have political backing to purge
police of militias US
commander said 5-6 of 27 National
Police battalions were sectarian and criminal US began reform of National
Police giving each battalion an inspection and training Maliki govt stopped
Iraqi-US inspections of Iraqi prisons No officials charged with prisoner abuse
despite lots of evidence Interior had fired 1500 police since June 2006
Fingerprint campaign found 1,228 police and Inter Min workers had been
convicted of violent crimes under Saddam
2006 Report Pentagon tried to hire Republicans to staff CPA
Hired many unqualified
personnel Thomas Foley in charge of
privatizing state owned enterprises was a Republican Donor who went to college
with Bush Foley put Jay Hallen former real estate agent in charge of Iraq’s
stock market Hallen tried to reform market that Iraqis didn’t want so change
rejected
2008 SIIC accused Maliki of creating Tribal Support Councils
to bolster his support
View the Iraq History Timelines
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