This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 5

1940 US Amb to Iraq sent note to PM Gaylani saying he was worried about direction of Iraq-

UK relations because of Gaylani’s overtures to the Axis

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1985 Lebanon’s Al Safr paper published petition saying 500 Iraqi writer and intellectuals had been

interrogated and tortured to conform to govt

2000 UN Res 1330 renewed Oil for Food Program

2002 White House spokesman said Bush and Def Sec Rumsfeld wouldn't claim Iraq had WMD if it wasn't

true

(Musings On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2002 Def Sec Rumsfeld aid Herbits said he was taking over postwar Iraq planning because it was a mess

UnderSecDef Feith’s office was supposed to do postwar Iraq planning Herbits said he was screwing up

(Musings On Iraq book review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

2002 Report Tuwaitha nuclear facility showed no signs of involvement in weapons program

2003 Pentagon banned France Germany Russia and other countries that opposed war from bidding

on reconstruction projects in Iraq

2003 US Air Force intel report Iran greatest threat to long term US influence in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)

2004 Suicide car bomb hit police station at main gate to Green Zone killed 7 wounded 50

2005 Amb Khalilzad said he’d been authorized by Bush to start talks with Iran to get its help in Iraq

2005 Report US forces trying new Clear Hold Build in Husaiba Anbar Iraqis seemed disorganized

leaving US to do most things

2006 PM Maliki said he was sending envoys to regional countries to discuss conference on Iraq

            US Abdul Hakim and Pres Talabani all rejected idea Nothing came of it

2007 Report 60,000 refugees returned to Iraq but only 2.4% of total Sep and Oct 07 had highest rate of

returns but then dropped in Nov Govt stopped telling refugees to return because couldn’t handle them Many refugees couldn’t return home and became displaced Some refugees were never able to come home for various reasons like working for US or being Baathists

(Musings On Iraq book review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)

2007 Iraqi Red Crescent displaced down 4.8% in Oct 07 by 110,000 people First large drop in 2 yrs Still 2.1

mil displaced

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