1958 Qasim govt gave amnesty to
Kurdish rebels
1986 Iran started Op Karbala 3 attacking Fao Peninsula and
Majnoon Island Built bridge
across
Shatt al-Arab Didn’t gain much
1986 Iraq recaptured Umaya oil platform in Basra
(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)
1990 DefSec Cheney told Senate comm White House didn’t need
anymore congressional
authorization
to take action vs Iraq
1996 2nd day of US cruise missile strikes on Iraq
for Saddam helping KDP vs PUK and
invading Irbil
1996 Iraq retaliated against US cruise missile attack by
firing at US UK and French
planes
patrolling northern No Fly Zone
1997 UK intel report said Iraq was still hiding parts of its
biological weapons program
2002 Blair press conference said Saddam threat because of
WMD that had to be dealt with
2002 White House group met and decided to ask for
Congressional resolution of force
vs Iraq
before midterm elections
2002 Iraqi opposition met with US officials in London to
draft part of Future of Iraq
Project
2003 1st post-Saddam Iraq cabinet sworn in with
17 new ministers
2003 US forces gave southern and central Iraq security to
Multi-National Force under
Polish
command
2003 CPA Order 28 created Iraqi Civil Defense Corps as
separate from police and army but
would be
folded into ISF later
2003 EU Japan US World Bank agreed to create trust fund for
reconstruction funds for
Iraq
independent of CPA
2006 US Dep Iraq Cmdr Gen Chiarelli told Iraq Survey Group
US needed reconciliation
and
political not military solution
2006 US Cmdr training ISF Gen Dempsey told Iraq Survey Group
needed reconciliation
otherwise
training useless
2007 Baghdad took control of Basra Palace as British troops
withdrew from central Basra
2007 Bush made surprise visit to Anbar to meet with Sheikh
Abu Risha of Awakening
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