This Day in Iraqi History - Sep 30

1924 Frontier Commission appointed to determine border between new nation

            of Turkey and Iraq

1958 Agrarian Reform Law issued by Gen Qasim in attempt to redistribute land from large

            landowners to peasants

1958 Pres Qasim removed Arif as Dep PM and Interior Minister because he was a threat to

            the govt

1980 Ayatollah Khomeini refused all talks with Iraq to end war Demanded Saddam step

down Iraq had to admit it was aggressor and pay reparations Basra was to come under Iranian control until Iraq paid debt Referendum in Kurdistan or autonomy or joining Iran

1980 Iranian air force launched Op Scorch Sword attacking Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility

            Only minimal damage Iran also bombed Baghdad

1980 Iraqis were stopped outside Dezful Ahvas and Abadan in Khuzistan province

            Allowed Iran to re-supply and have access to Shatt al-Arab

1980 Soviet’s Brezhnev said Iran and Iraq both friends of USSR 2 needed to negotiate

            end to war Soviets main military supporter of Iraq

1980 State Dept told Italy’s Foreign Ministry that USSR turned down request by Iraq

for additional military equipment

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

2001 Report Al Qaeda defector said bin Laden did not like Saddam because of his attacks

            upon Muslim civilians

2001 Iraqi defector told Sunday Telegraph Saddam started crash program to produce

            WMD in six months

2002 Iraq and UN negotiated new weapons inspections in Vienna but blocked 8

            presidential sites US rejected deal

2002 NYTimes OpEd by Clinton era counterterrorism official Benjamin said Saddam

            thought bin Laden a threat and 2 didn’t cooperate

2003 UN Sec Gen Anan said that UN would only renew its role in Iraq if sovereignty

            passed to an interim govt

2003 Rumsfeld aide ate with Pentagon DefPolBoard member Gingrich and DepSecDef

            Wolfowitz who were lobbying against Bremer

2003 Gingrich would later say Bremer at CPA was biggest foreign policy disaster in

            recent times

2003 Bush told Justice Dep investigating possible unauthorized disclosure of

undercover CIA official fmr Amb Wilson’s wife VP Cheney’s office had leaked her name to press to discredit Wilson

2003 Constitutional preparatory committee came up with 3 ways to name delegates

            to constitutional committee Couldn’t agree on which to use

2004 Iraq Survey Group final report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for

            rockets not centrifuges

(Musings On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)

2008 Sheikh announced 20 Tribal Support Councils created in Dhi Qar by PM Maliki

Creation of Tribal Support Councils in Dhi Qar led to attacks upon sheikhs in political rivalry between SIIC and Dawa

2014 UK launched first air strikes on IS

2014 Cabinet authorized govt to provide weapons, equipment, salaries to Hashd

2017 Iraqi military said it was going to take over Kurdish border posts by stationing

            troops on Turkish and Iranian side

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