This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 10

1949 Communist Party Chairman Fahad and 2 politburo members convicted and sentenced

to death for leading party

1963 estimated 5,000 Communists executed by Baath since coup against Gen. Qasim

(Musings On Iraq book review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)

1964 Pres Arif agreed to ceasefire with Mulla Mustafa Barzani

1972 Saddam visited Moscow to push for strategic agreement with Iraq

1974 Border dispute between Iran-Iraq led to gunfight killing 23 Iraqis 30 Iranians

1988 Iraq restarted attacks on Iranian shipping Iran retaliated in kind

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

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper 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)

1998 Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultant said Saudis would not allow air strikes against Iraq as US Def

Sec Cohen was about to visit

2002 CIA presented covert action plan against Iraq

2003 Australian Premier Howard met Bush Bush Said Saddam would leave power or US would remove him

2003 France Germany Russia statement called for more time for inspections Doused US hopes France

would back 2^nd UN Res on Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

2003 UK intel report said attack on Iraq would increase threat of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda

2003 New Yorker article reported UnderSecDef Feith’s office claim that Iraq connected to Al Qaeda and

supporting Zarqawi

2003 German officials investigating Zarqawi said found no evidence he was linked to Iraqi govt

2003 US defense attache report that he looked at Benin warehouse and found no uranium headed for Iraq

Inspection done in Dec 2002

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2004 CPA Order 57 created Inspector Generals in each Iraqi ministry to fight corruption

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)

2004 Car bomb hit Iskandiriya Babil police station killed 50

2004 Report almost all of SecState Powell’s 03 UN speech on Iraq WMD and ties to terrorism proved wrong

2005 NSC staffer Zelikow told Sec State Rice Iraq failed state stuck in violence

2006 Report 1920 Revolution Brigades Amman Brigades Mujahadeen Army working to expel Al Qaeda in

Iraq from Ramadi after it killed head of Albu Fahad tribe

(Musings On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)

2006 Fmr CIA Natl Intel officer for Near East Pillar said intel on Iraq was cherry picked by White House to

justify war

2007 Gen Petraeus replaced Gen Casey as US commander in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)

(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)

2007 Report US intel said Iran and Hezbollah providing weapons and training to Iraqi militias Mehran

border crossing major conduit US trying to crackdown on Iranian cells operating in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

(Musings On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)

2009 Sen Kerry went to Syria to try to improve relations as part of Obama’s new Iraq policy of including

neighbors in strategy

2016 PM Abadi said he wanted technocrats to replace existing ministers

(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)

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