This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 2

1922 Turkish troops tested border with Iraq Seized Rania in Sulaymaniya after

            four days of fighting

1980 Iraq-Iran border clash at Qasr-e-Shirin in central Iran across from Diyala province

1991 UN Resolution 712 said that money should be released for buying food and supplies

            for Iraqi civilians

1996 US began 2 days of cruise missile attacks on targets in Nasiriya in retaliation for

            Iraqi forces helping KDP vs PUK and invading Irbil

1996 U.S. extended southern no fly zone farther north

1996 Iraqi army withdrew from most of Kurdistan after helping KDP against PUK

1996 Barzani interviewed on BBC Said Saddam was president of Iraq KDP had not left

            Iraq If deal could be made with Baghdad it would happen

2002 Bush told Blair Iraq had WMD and unclear how quickly it could get nukes

2002 NSC met to discuss how to approach UN on Iraq Powell wanted new inspections

            Cheney said that would be useless Bush decided to ask for new inspections

2002 Bush told NSC he wanted Congressional resolution for use of force vs Iraq Thought

            would be easy with elections coming  

2003 Zarqawi car bomb hit Baghdad police HQ killing 1 wounding 20

2003 Ayatollah Hakim buried in Najaf after killed in Zarqawi car bombing in same city

2003 Abdul Aziz al-Hakim blamed lax US security for death of his brother Ayatollah

            Hakim

2003 Bush agreed to talk with UN about multi-national force helping with security in

            Iraq Effort failed

2004 2 Americans Jack Henlsey and Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley

            kidnapped by Zarqawi in Baghdad

2006 20 Anbar sheikhs told US forces they were forming Emergency Council to fight

Al Qaeda in Iraq Said would work with US and wanted Anbar governor dismissed

(Musings On Iraq book review of Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)

2006 Iraq CIA station chief told Iraq Survey Group Interior Ministry running death squads

            and torturing people

2006 Fin Min Jabr told Iraq Survey Group corruption under control due to Board of

            Supreme Audit

2014 Peshmerga recaptured Zumar, Ninewa

2014 Relatives of Camp Speicher massacre stormed parliament and demanded explanations

            for what happened

2014 ISI released video beheading of US reporter Steven Slotoff Threatened to kill UK

            hostage if US didn’t withdraw from Iraq

2014 US sent another 250 troops for force protection to Iraq

2015 Protesters surrounded Najaf provincial council building and tried to sack it

2017 Kurdish Asayesh accused of executing up to 375 IS suspects that just surrendered

            to them in Ninewa

(Musings On Iraq article on Kurdish executions) 

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