This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 22

1921 Gertrude Bell wrote that British officers in Mosul province thought they could

convince Kurds to vote for Feisal as king in referendum They didn’t

(Musings On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

1970 3 coup plotters executed by Pres Bakr govt

1970 Iraq expelled Iranian ambassador accusing Tehran of backing 1970 failed coup

1991 Iraqi SCUD missile and 2 U.S. Patriot missiles landed on Israeli city of Ramat Gan

1991 Iraqi forces set fire to 700 Kuwaiti oil wells

2003 2^nd meeting of US UK Australia on postwar Iraq Little came of meeting

2003 CIA sent its report on Iraq WMD to White House to help make case for war

2003 CIA analyst told IAEA aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges IAEA said they

were for rockets IAEA proved right

(Musings On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)

2004 Cheney said Iraq had mobile labs and WMD programs Inspections found no mobile labs

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2004 Cheney said overwhelming evidence Saddam linked to Al Qaeda Said Iraq behind 1993 World

Trade Center bombing Based upon Laurie Mylroie conspiracy theories

(Musings On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)

2005 Report $300 mil for arms deal for Iraqi army went missing after put on plane for Lebanon

2005 INC’s Chalabi accused Defense Min Shaalan of stealing the $300 mil Shaalan threatened to

arrest Chalabi for the charge

2006 Report 34,131 attacks in 2005 up from 26,496 in 2004 Car bombs went from 420 in 2004 to

873 in 2005 IEDs went from 5,607 in 2004 to 10,953 in 2005

2007 Maliki announced he would no longer protect the Mahdi Army from U.S. raids

2008 Mahdi Army tried to kidnap PM Maliki’s national security adviser Mowafaq Rubaie in Baghdad

2011 Kirkuk made deal with Electricity Min that province would get larger power quota Would still

not meet demand Governor had cut off power line to Baghdad and kept electricity for province

(Musings On Iraq article on Kirkuk-Electricity Min deal)

(Musings On Iraq article on power problems in Kirkuk)

2012 Iraq voted in Arab League for a transition of power in Syria away from Assad

2015 Coalition air strike killed Abu Ans Samarraie IS’s governor for Anbar He was responsible for

            executing hundreds of members of the Albu Nimr tribe

(Musings On Iraq article on death of IS leaders)

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