This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 2

1920 US Consul in Baghdad said England hadn’t taken any serious steps to create an

independent Iraqi govt

1928 UK High Comm for Iraq Dobbs wrote conscription in Iraq would cause revolt Was already

problem in Basra Said authority of Iraqi govt depended upon British backing and military might

1932 King Faisal speech praised his rule in Syria Said if he was still king there Syria would be

independent like Iraq

1948 Baghdad told oil companies they should not employ Jews after creation of Israel

1980 Saddam accused US of helping Iran during Iran-Iraq war

1981 Iranian Op Tariq al-Quds Revolutionary Guard began 1^st human wave attacks in war in Bostan

Suffered heavy losses

(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 Powell said no reason to believe Iraq didn’t have WMD

2001 USA Today article said Iraq supported bin Laden when he was in Sudan in 1990s

2001 Ex-CIA Dir Woolsey said he believed Iraq involved in 9/11

2002 Bush Cheney DepSecDef Wolfowtiz gave speeches across US saying that Iraq would not

cooperate with weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

2002 White House spokesman said if Saddam said he had no WMD proved he was lying if he said he

had WMD he violated UN resolutions

2002 White House spokesman said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for its nuke program

(Musings On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)

2002 White House officials told US News & World Report they were making extensive plans for

postwar Iraq

2002 UK issued dossier on human rights abuses in Iraq Amnesty Intl attacked report as

opportunistic and selective

2003 Dep Sec State Armitage said US should not oppose Ayatollah Sistani who was pushing for

elections for new Iraq parliament

2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld told CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Abizaid and US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey CIA

found insurgents infiltrating Iraqi army in Anbar

2005 Gen Dempsey in charge of US training mission for ISF said 100 Iraqi army battalions 33

operating on own 40 in the lead Said 27 Federal Police battalions on duty Said major problem was police were recruited locally and many were from militias

(Musings On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)

2008 US and Iraqi officials met about Sahwa Maliki said he agreed with Americans organizing Sunni

tribes but southern Iraq was off limits Said southern tribes could threaten Shiite parties Came after US Marines were organizing Sahwa in Qadisiyah to counter militias  

(Musings On Iraq article on Maliki govt cancelling US forming Sahwa in southern Iraq)

2008 Oil Min Shahristani demanded KRG void its oil contracts in return for deal to allow it to export

            oil

(Musings On Iraq article on Baghdad-KRG oil talks)

2011 Mobs attacked Christian and Yazidi businesses in several towns in Dohuk province

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