Post-Gulf War Iraq (1991-99)

Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War

Musings On Iraq review the Ba’thifiation f Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism

Musings On Iraq review Compulsion In Religion, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies In Iraq

Musings On Iraq review Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89

Musings On Iraq review Desert Storm, Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and the Coalition Liberation of Kuwait 1991

Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq

Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East

Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security

Musings On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq

Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions

Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm

Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance

Musings On Iraq review Iraq Under Siege, The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War

Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Perspectives Project, A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership

Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope

Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi

Musings On Iraq review Martyrs’ Day, Chronicle of a Small War

Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq

Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars

Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein

Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003

Musings On Iraq review Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, Inside an Authoritarian Regime

Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes, The Inner Workings of a Tyrant’s Regime 1978-2001

Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq

Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq

Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq

Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History With Documents

 

1991

Feb 28 Bush announced cease-fire in Gulf War

Feb 28 Jalal Talabani tried to tell State Dept of impending Kurdish revolt but was turned away

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

 

Mar 1 Iraqi army units in Basra began revolt after end of Gulf War

(Musings On Iraq interview with Natl Singapore Univ’s Fanar Haddad on social impact of the 1991 uprising in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

Mar 1 Pres Bush said that the Iraqi people should overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Mar 2 Shiite revolt spread to Suq al-Shuyukh and Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar

Mar 2 Shiite rebels attacked military intelligence headquarters in Basra

Mar 2 UN Resolution 686 required Iraq to accept 12 previous UN resolutions on Kuwait

            pay reparations end annexation of Kuwait release POWs return stolen property

Mar 2 Report UNICEF warned of cholera epidemic and malnutrition amongst Iraqi children

because of sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Mar 3 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War

Mar 3 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf following Gulf War Fired upon

            by security forces

Mar 3 Foreign Min Aziz sent letter to president of UN Security Council Said Iraq ready to follow UN

Resolution 686 that renounced Iraqi annexation of Kuwait Accepted liability for losses Iraq would return Iraqi assets and release POWs and civilian captives

 

Mar 4 Najaf and Kufa joined Shiite revolt

Mar 4 Iraqi forces began retaking Basra from rebels

Mar 4 Kurdish rebellion started in Raniya

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Mar 5 Police tried to arrest army deserters in Rania but Kurdish rebels seized city

Mar 5 Karbala joined Shiite revolt

Mar 5 Ayatollah Khoei issued fatwa for people in Najaf to follow Islamic Law Protect

            property during uprising

Mar 5 Secretary of Defense Cheney said US would not be able to hold coalition together

            if it moved on Saddam

Mar 5 US Gen Brandtner said US would not let weapons go to Shiite rebels in southern

            Iraq

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

Mar 5 Iraq officially renounced annexation of Kuwait agreed to pay reparations and

            return stolen property to Kuwait

Mar 5 Report Saudia Arabia worked with Syria to create Iraq Salvation Movement made up of Dawa

Communists KDP PUK pro-Syrian Baath Party ISCI

Mar 5 Saudi King Fahd said that he thought Saddam wanted to swallow Kuwait and parts of

Saudi Arabia

 

Mar 6 Saddam appointed cousin Ali Majid Interior Minister to put down uprisings

Mar 6 State Dept spokesman said foreign powers should not get involved in Iraqi

            uprisings

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

Mar 6 Kurdish uprising started in Kol Sanjaq

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Mar 7 Ayatollah Khoei issued 2^nd fatwa calling for clerical leadership to run Najaf and restoring

            order during uprising

Mar 7 Iraqi officials asked for WMD to put down rebellion in Najaf

Mar 7 Bush Admin warned Iraq not to use WMD against Shiite and Kurdish uprisings

Mar 7 Govt forces began artillery and rocket fire on Najaf shrine

Mar 7 Peshmerga began uprising in Sulaymaniya

Mar 7 Saddam offered Shiites and Kurds share in govt in exchange for loyalty oath but turned

            down

Mar 7 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani said Saddam was unpopular and should give into popular demand

            and step down

 

Mar 8 Peshmerga captured Sulaymaniya from govt forces

Mar 8 Turkish Pres Ozal changed policy and held talks with KDP and PUK for first time

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 8 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani called on Saddam to step down from power

 

Mar 9 Kurdish rebellion started in Halabja and Arbat

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 9 Hussein Kamil led Iraqi forces to retake Karbala from rebels

 

Mar 10 Iranian Revolutionary Guard attacked 2 Mujahedeen e-Khalq camps in Iraq

            during Shiite uprising

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)

(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)

Mar 10 Kurdish uprising spread to Tuz Kharmato and Dohuk

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 10 Govt imposed curfew in Kirkuk to try to stop unrest

Mar 10 US troops began withdrawing from Persian Gulf

Mar 10 Talabani met with Turkish Foreign Min officials in Ankara to discuss Kurd-Turkish relations

after Gulf War

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

 

Mar 11 Shiite uprising in Hillah put down

Mar 11 Rebels from Najaf met French forces who said they would meet Gen Schwarzkopf

            Never happened

Mar 11 Kurdish uprising started in Irbil

Mar 11 Massoud Barzani offered amnesty for soldiers who surrender to Peshmerga

Mar 11 Peshmerga began attacking Kirkuk, Iraqi army responded by taking hostages

            inside city

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Mar 12 Govt operation to retake Najaf from Shiite rebels began

Mar 12 Iraqi refugees fleeing country claimed govt forces used napalm to put down

            uprising

Mar 12 Wash Post OpEd by Ahmed Chalabi Criticized US for allowing Saddam to stay in power

and put down 1991 uprising

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Mar 13 Pres Bush said Iraqi helicopters should not be used to put down Shiite and Kurdish uprisings

Said impossible to normalize relations with Iraq as long as Saddam in power

Mar 13 Kurdish uprising spread to Zakho

Mar 13 Kurdistan Front announced council to run Kurdish areas during uprising

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 13 325 Iraqi opposition leaders from 23 factions met in Beirut to discuss uprising

            in Iraq Led to Free Iraqi Council led by Saad Salih Jabr

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)

Mar 13 Was anti-govt protest in Baghdad

 

Mar 14 Pres Bush warned Iran not to take advantage of Iraq uprisings to try to annex

            any territory

 

Mar 15 Saddam declared southern revolt over

Mar 15 Rebels in Diwanaiya attempted and failed to take Hillah

Mar 15 Iraqi govt forces began operation to retake Tuz Kharmato from Peshmerga

Mar 15 US met with Iraqis Told them they could not fly planes Objected to Iraqis using

helicopters to put down Shiite uprising Iraq said rebellion led by Iran

Mar 15 U.S. shot down Iraqi fighter after warned it no flights allowed during uprisings

 

Mar 16 Saddam made 1^st address since Gulf War Blamed southern uprising on Iran Said

            Kurds worked with foreigners and always defeated

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)

 

Mar 17 Iraqi army began assault to retake Karbala from Shiite rebels

Mar 17 Refugee claimed govt killed 250-300 people of Najaf after Shiite uprising

Mar 17 Kurds began fleeing Tuz Kharmato in face of govt offensive to retake it

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 17 Baghdad held 1^st tribal loyalty ceremony to shore up support during uprising

Mar 17 Saddam said he would introduce democracy and create a new constitution

Mar 17 Iraqi generals met with US military Americans made no effort to tell Iraq to stop

putting down 91 uprising

 

Mar 18 Secretary of State Baker after tour of Middle East and Soviet Union said most

            leaders thought Saddam would be gone by end of year

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Mar 18 Kurdish leader Rahman called for international help with food and medicine

            during uprising None came

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Mar 19 Saddam’s troops recaptured Karbala from Shiite rebels Went district to district

            taking young men and executing them

Mar 19 Govt forces arrested Ayatollah Khoei following Shiite uprising 105 relatives staff

            students and clerics arrested in Najaf by govt forces

Mar 19 Bush admin officials accused Iran of trying to overthrow Saddam and place

            friendly Shiites in power in Baghdad

 

Mar 20 Kirkuk fell to Kurdish rebels

Mar 20 Kurdish leaders said that all of Iraqi Kurdistan had been liberated from Iraqi

            forces

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 20 Ayatollah Khoei made to appear with Saddam on TV to denounce Shiite uprising

            The Ayatollah was then placed under house arrest in Najaf

Mar 20 Alhisaari report on humanitarian needs in Iraq and Kuwait Said Gulf War brought near

apocalyptic conditions to Iraq Said modern living in country destroyed Said Iraq back to pre-industrial nation

 

Mar 21 Govt offensive to retake Kirkuk from peshmerga began day after Kurds took it

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 21 Govt announced state of emergency in Baghdad

Mar 21 UN diplomat Martti Ahtussari issued report that sanctions had hurt ability of Iraq to

feed its people Said conditions in Iraq were “near apocalyptic” Said Coalition bombing had taken Iraq back to “pre-industrial age”

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Mar 21 Fmr US Amb to Iraq Glaspie asked why US didn’t deter Iraq from invading Kuwait

Said US didn’t realize Saddam stupid and didn’t listen to warnings US made

 

Mar 22 US shot down another Iraqi fighter after warned it no flights during uprisings

Mar 22 Turkey held second meeting with KDP and PUK Talabani said this marked a new

            page in Kurdish-Turkish relations

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

 

Mar 23 Sadoun Hammadi, a Shiite became premier as Saddam tried to appease Shiites

            while putting down uprising

 

Mar 24 Turkish Pres Ozal met Bush in US and told him an independent Kurdistan in Iraq

            would lead to greater Kurdistan affecting Turkey Syrian Iran

 

Mar 26 Fierce fighting between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga on Khanaqin-Jalawla road,

            Diyala

Mar 26 Talabani returned to Iraq after 3 years Gave speech talking about freeing all of Iraq

            working with Iraqi opposition to create a provisional govt 

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 26 White House meeting on Iraq uprising Decided not to get involved

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Mar 26 Bush told press Iraqi rebels had not asked U.S. for help during uprising

Mar 26 Bush administration said they would not stop Iraq from using helicopters to

            put down uprisings

Mar 26 Bush National Security Adviser Scowcorft secretly met Saudi King Fahd who told

            US to stay out of 1991 uprising

 

Mar 27 2^nd day of fighting between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga on Khanaqin-Jalawla

            road, Diyala

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 27 White House spokesman said that US had made no promises to Shiites or Kurds

            and US public not interested in getting involved in an Iraqi civil war

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Mar 27 4,700 Kurds fled 91 uprising for Turkish border

 

Mar 28 SCIRI head Hakim said Shiite rebels in south only fighting in rural areas after

            lost cities to Iraqi army

Mar 28 Iraqi intelligence memo said it had contacts with bin Laden

 

Mar 29 Iraqi troops recaptured Kirkuk from Kurdish rebels

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 29 Iraqi troops captured Tanuma, Basra from rebels

 

Mar 30 Saddam’s troops re-entered Dohuk and Irbil to put down Kurdish rebellion

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Mar 30 Majid al-Khoei son of Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei met with Saudi intelligence and was

turned down for aid because US objections

 

Mar 31 Govt op to retake Sulaymaniya from Peshemerga began

 

Apr 1 Peshmerga repelled govt attack to retake Sulaymaniya

Apr 1 Saddam’s forces put down Kurdish revolt in Zakho

Apr 1 Barzani said 3 mil Kurds had fled to northern mountains along Turkish border

            to escape govt attacks

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 2 State Dept U.S. never said that it was for removing Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

Apr 2 Turkey said that 30,000 Kurds had entered country and 220,00 more coming as

            Saddam put down Kurdish revolt Closed its border as a result

Apr 2 Iran and Turkey went to UN about Iraq’s suppression of Kurd and Shiite revolts

            and refugee crisis it was creating

Apr 2 Kurds began fleeing Sulaymaniya in face of govt offensive to retake it from

            Peshmerga

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Apr 2 UN Resolution 687 said Iraq had to agree to border with Kuwait peacekeeping force

along that border and Coalition forces would exit southern Iraq Iraq had to destroy its WMD and long range missiles Iraq had to make a declaration on its WMD and nuclear programs by 4/17/91 UN Secretary General would create a weapons inspection commission by 5/17/19 Iraq had to return stolen property pay reparations to Kuwait Until all of those were met sanctions would remain

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

 

Apr 3 Saddam’s troops captured Sulaymaniya last major town held by Kurdish rebels

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Apr 3 Saddam told aides that Iraqi army was psychologically defeated by Gulf War and that was why

Shiites and Kurds rose up against govt Said goal of Gulf War was to destroy Iraqi military to allow 91 uprising

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

 

Apr 4 Report Pres Bush gave CIA okay to support opposition in Iraq led to creation of Voice of Free

Iraq radio station run by Saudis during Gulf War Didn’t allow support for 91 uprising

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Apr 4 Britain offered $37 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds

Apr 4 Turkey said it couldn’t support Kurdish refugees flowing into country so shut

            border 10,000 crossed into Turkey 80,000 held at border

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 5 Saddam declared that Kurdish and Shiite rebellions were crushed following Gulf

            War

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

Apr 5 Saddam article on 91 uprising Said south Shiites from marshes were isolated backwards

unable to integrate into Iraq Said Kurds were the same Said southern Shiites were criminal deviants If they ever came into power would destroy Iraq 

Apr 5 Bush authorized airdrops of supplies to Kurds

Apr 5 UN Resolution 688 condemned Saddam’s repression of its civilian population

Apr 5 Some displaced Kurds began leaving mountains after govt appeals to them while

            Turkey let 80,000 into country

 

Apr 6 UNHCR est 750,000 Kurds fled to Iran and 280,000 to Turkey and 300,000

            on Iraq-Turkey border Aftermath of 1991 uprising

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Apr 6 Baghdad accepted UN resolution 687 that said Iraq had to recognize Kuwait

            sovereignty and destroy WMD and missiles

 

Apr 7 Sec of State Baker condemned Iraq crimes against its people but said US would

            not get involved

Apr 7 US began humanitarian airdrops to Kurds

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 7 Iran closed border to try to stop Kurdish refugees from entering Re-opened 2 days later

 

Apr 8 Plan to create UN safe haven in northern Iraq for Kurds approved at European

            Union meeting

Apr 8 US agreed to $10 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 8 European Community agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Kurds Suggested a safe haven

for Kurdish refugees in northern Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Apr 8 US White House lawyers decided to try to deny docs on US-Iraq policy to Congressional

investigators Congress looking into US giving credits to Iraq Some of money used to buy tech for Iraq’s nuclear WMD and missile programs

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Apr 9 French Foreign Min said thank god Saddam crushed 91 uprising otherwise would have led to

renewed Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and Gulf States

Apr 9 Saddam article Blamed 91 uprising on lack of unity and discipline in Iraq that allowed Iranian

sectarianism to spread Blamed poor Shiites from south marshes that didn’t follow society or Islam for spreading sectarianism

Apr 9 White House lawyers met Agriculture Dept official said that info on BNL bank and dept’s

credit program would show govt didn’t’ regulate process which meant US money was used to arm Iraq before Gulf War

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Apr 10 US ordered Iraq to end all military action in northern Iraq above 38^th parallel Northern no

            fly zone created

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 10 KDP and PUK sent delegation to Baghdad to negotiate situation in Kurdistan following 91

            uprising

 

Apr 11 Japan agreed to $10 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 12 Report Bush admin decided that Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after Gulf

            War strengthened Saddam and ended hopes of coup

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Apr 12 After meeting with West European leaders Bush backed safe haven and humanitarian aid to

Kurds Led to Op Provide Comfort

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Apr 13 Pres Bush said US would send humanitarian aid to Iraq and condemned govt

            attacks on civilians but would not get more involved

Apr 13 Turkish governor of southeast said he wanted all Kurdish refugees returned to Iraq

 

Apr 14 Saddam article on 91 uprising Said Shiites and Kurds were untrustworthy because had been

used by Persians in ancient times Said Turkmen felt superior due to their Turkish origins and never integrated into Iraq Claimed King Faisal brought Kurds and Arabs together but then destroyed by UK who used Kurds in 1936 coup Blamed Barzani for starting Kurdish revolt in 1940s Said Qasim backed Kurds and Communists that undermined pan-Arabism and the unity of Iraq

Apr 14 US forces started withdrawal from southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia

 

Apr 15 Turkey told US Kurdish refugees should be settled in Iraq until security established

Apr 15 Turkish army began moving 20,000 Kurdish refugees to a camp

 

Apr 16 Bush said that US would not have normal relations with Iraq until Saddam removed and

sanctions would continue

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview (Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

Apr 16 Bush denied US responsible for telling Iraqis to revolt and then not supporting them

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Apr 16 Report CIA and Saudis set up Voice of Free Iraq after Iraq invasion of Kuwait Used Iraqi

exiles to run station Called on Iraqi military to overthrow Saddam

Apr 16 Pres Bush said that US would send troops to set up relief camps in Kurdistan to help

refugees after Saddam put down revolt

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 16 State Dept met with Iraqi opposition including Ahmed Chalabi for first time

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

Apr 16 Baghdad and Kurds announced ceasefire and start of talks

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 17 British intelligence report said Iraq had around 600 ballistic missiles left after

            Gulf War

Apr 17 Op Provide Comfort US forces began moving into Kurdistan to set up camps for displaced

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 17 Germany agreed to $262 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds

Apr 17 Sec State Baker said US had to make sure Saddam contained Said relations would not be

normalized as long as he was in power and sanctions would not be lifted either

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

Apr 18 Report 500-1,000 displaced Kurds were dying a day along Iraq-Turkey border

Apr 18 Saddam agreed to UN setting up offices in Iraq to help displaced following

            Shiite and Kurdish uprisings

Apr 18 Iraq provided first weapons declaration to UN Was incomplete Said Iraq had 53 SCUD

missiles Said had chemical but not biological or nuclear weapons programs

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

Apr 18 First round of talks between Baghdad and Kurds over status of Kurdistan started with

Talabani heading delegation

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 20 Bush White House didn’t think Saddam was going to be overthrown anymore

            after Gulf War

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Apr 20 SCIRI claimed it started attacks upon govt forces in southern Iraq Came after

            Shiite revolt put down

Apr 20 US and UK forces landed in Zakho to set up northern safe haven for Kurdish refugees

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 21 Iraqi govt forces began attack on southern marshes in Maysan Basra and Dhi Qar

            to root out rebels

 

Apr 22 Report Iranian intelligence and Revolutionary Guard working in Iraq to help revolts

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)

(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)

Apr 22 Report Bush decided on maintaining sanctions hoping they would lead to overthrow of

            Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

Apr 22 Report Saudis were holding Iraqi POWs form Gulf War to try to create opposition group out

of them

 

Apr 23 Barzani said that guarantees would be needed for any deal with Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 24 Kurdish leaders announced tentative deal with Saddam over autonomy and

            returning refugees who fled during revolt

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Apr 24 Saudi Arabia under US and UK pressure agreed to allow 30,000 Iraqi refugees and 15,000

POWs into country

 

Apr 25 Kurdish parties agreed to deal with Saddam including autonomy to end

            revolt after Gulf War

Apr 25 Turkey told UN 30,000 Iraqi Kurds had entered Turkey in 2 days and 220,000

            were on there way as Kurdish uprising put down

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Apr 26 Kurdish refugees began leaving Turkish mountains for refugee camps in

            Kurdistan Baghdad offered amnesty to Kurds that fled during uprising

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)

Apr 26 Bush said there would be no normal relations with Iraq as long as Saddam in power

 

Apr 27 Iraq made declaration of its nuclear program to UN inspectors but was hiding

most of it

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Apr 28 US led Coalition created safe zone for Kurds near Dohuk after uprising

            put down

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Apr 29 Report Bush and Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell both thought of Vietnam when Iraq revolt

started Didn’t want to get caught in civil war and quagmire

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Apr 30 Head UN inspector Ekeus sent to Iraq about what it didn’t declare in its weapons

declarations Said Iraq didn’t mention its industrial infrastructure used for WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

May 1 Saddam said that fighting spirit of Iraqis led Bush to call a cease-fire in Gulf War

May 1 Report 68,000 displaced caused by uprising following Gulf War

 

May 2 Shiite rebels claimed to have killed 180 Iraqi soldiers in 9 different attacks in south

 

May 4 2^nd round of peace talks between Kurds and Baghdad postponed due to differences

            between KDP and PUK over need for international help and oil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 5 Bush signed presidential finding authorizing CIA to overthrow Saddam

 

May 6 Iraq letter to UN accused US of sending in counterfeit dinars to undermine economy

May 6 2^nd round of Baghdad-Kurd talks started Barzani led delegation

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

May 6 Saddam held rally with crowds chanting “Bush listen carefully We all love

Saddam Hussein”

 

May 7 Deputy National Security Advisor Gates said Iraqis would have to suffer sanctions

            as long as Saddam remained in power

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

May 9 US forces withdrew from southern Iraq after Gulf War

May 9 Iraq rejected US French UK proposal for international police force to deploy to Kurdistan

 

May 11 UK PM Major said was against ending UN sanctions on Iraq until Saddam overthrown

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

May 11 Ahmed Chalabi contacted by CIA officer Discussed Chalabi becoming organizer of Iraqi

opposition with CIA support Chalabi agreed CIA gave him $50,000

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

May 11 CIA hired Rendon Group for propaganda ops in Iraq Would help create Iraqi National

            Congress

 

May 12 Baghdad took journalists to mass grave with 100 bodies it claimed were killed

            by Iranians and Shiite rebels in southern Iraq

 

May 13 Kurds attacked police station in Zakho as negotiations continued over rules following 91

uprising

 

May 14 UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

 

May 15 International Atomic Energy Agency started first weapons inspection in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

 

May 18 Massoud Barzani announced deal with Saddam for greater Kurdish autonomy

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 20 Bush said he would oppose lifting sanctions on Iraq as long as Saddam was in power

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

May 21 Kuwait asked for half of Iraq’s oil earnings as reparation for invasion

 

May 23 For third time Kurds attacked police station in Zakho

May 23 UN announced 500 guards would be sent to Kurdish provinces to deal with relief centers

for displaced after 1991 Uprising

 

May 27 Kurdish parties threatened to go back to fighting if deal not reached with Baghdad over

            autonomy

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 29 Bush said sanctions wouldn’t be lifted as long as Saddam in power

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

May 30 General Colin Powell said Op Provide Comfort would end as soon as diplomatic solution to

            Kurdish refugees reached

 

Jun 2 Demonstrations in Dohuk Irbil Sulaymaniya Diyabil with Kurds demanding US forces stay in

            Kurdistan to protect them Police stations and Baath offices attacked 5 killed in Dohuk

 

Jun 3 Protests and clashes continued in 3 Kurdish cities Dohuk 4 Kurs and 2 Baath officials killed

Jun 3 Survey found Gulf War damage to Iraq infrastructure far more than originally claimed

Destroyed most of electrical grid 80% out of service Affeced water purification and sewage system Led to increase in disease Led to health crisis Also destroyed telecommunications system Est $1.5 bil to repair oil

(Musings On Iraq How The Gulf War Destroyed Iraq’s Electricity Network)

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Storm, Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and the Coalition Liberation of Kuwait 1991)

 

Jun 7 UN began taking over camps run by US military to help Kurds following 91 uprising

 

Jun 9 1^st UN weapons inspection of Iraq’s WMD begins

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

 

Jun 11 Iran called on UN to protect Shiites displaced in southern marshes threatened by govt forces

 

Jun 14 More than 1,000 Kurds protested outside US camp in Dohuk asking for them to stay to

            protect them from Iraqi govt

 

Jun 16 Barzani said deal made with Baghdad over Kurdish autonomy Talabani said not to trust

            Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Jun 17 Generals Garner and Shalikashvili met with PUK and KDP Told them world opinion behind

Kurds but Kurds said Saddam still a problem

 

Jun 23 US Gen said in opening day of bombing during Gulf War US tried to kill Saddam

Jun 23 2^nd International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team arrived in Iraq

 

Jun 24 Inspectors tried to enter Abu Ghraib base but were turned back by Iraqis

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

Jun 24 CIA Dir Webster told US defense and national security officials Iraq’s WMD had to

be taken seriously

 

Jun 25 Iraqis fired on UN weapons inspectors at suspected nuke site

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Jun 28 Inspectors found trucks leaving Fallujah nuclear site with calutrons used to enrich uranium

Special Republican Guards were following inspectors and fired over their heads Inspectors took pictures of equipment

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

 

Jun 29 Inspectors told Iraq it was obliged to divulge all info about its nuclear program

Jun 29 Iraq’s Concealment Committee met over Calutrons being discovered by inspectors Decided

Iraq would have to admit it had a nuclear program but wouldn’t admit that it tried to build a bomb Decided on immediate re-concealment of docs and equipment and secret destruction of others

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Jun 30 1^st WMD inspection team arrived in Iraq

 

Jul 4 Parliament passed law allowing opposition parties but with restrictions on their activities

 

Jul 6 Baghdad demanded Peshmerga disband close Kurdish radio stations end

contacts with foreign govts Kurds support Baghdad Oppose Iraqi opposition Kurds demanded democracy talks over Kirkuk offered to give up heavy weapons close radio stations end contacts with foreign govts in talks with Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Jul 7 UN inspectors found several kilograms of enriched uranium and large stocks of natural

            uranium from Iraq’s nuclear weapons program

Jul 7 Iraq Foreign Min Hussein told UN that it would make a declaration of its

nuclear program Hussein said Iraq had not violated Non-Proliferation Treaty or IAEA safeguards

Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein

Jul 7 Iraq’s Concealment committee met Decided to reveal details about nuke program

after inspectors found site Concealment committee decided to secretly destroy WMD programs and materials to hide them from inspectors Would prove long term problem because Iraq could never fully prove what it destroyed and what it was hiding to inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Jul 8 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors it had 3 secret programs to enrich uranium to build a nuclear

            bomb Before Iraq denied it had any nuclear weapons program

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Jul 8 Report During Gulf War Coalition said it was only bombing military targets but destroyed

Iraq’s infrastructure as well During war said hits on infrastructure were accidents or collateral damage Late in war bombed facilities knew Iraq couldn’t rebuild on its own to put pressure on military to overthrow Saddam Bombing led to cholera and typhoid outbreak

 

Jul 10 UN set up camps at Lake Hammar to take in displaced from southern marshes but govt did

            not allow people to enter

Jul 10 WMD equipment at Al Alam sorted and then sent into new hiding places around Tikrit

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 11 Talabani met Saddam Talabani said an autonomy agreement was imminent

Jul 11 Iran warned that Iraqi forces about to launch new military operation into southern marshes

            against rebels and displaced

Jul 11 UK intel report said Iraq tried 4 methods to enrich uranium for its nuclear program and

might have made enough for 1 bomb

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

Jul 11 Pres Bush said that coup vs Saddam might be best way to assure that Iraq didn’t continue

            with its nuclear weapons program

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Jul 12 Saddam carried out new wave of executions of Baath members and army officers

 

Jul 15 US troops withdrew from Kurdistan after setting up safe area for displaced Kurds

            after Gulf War

Jul 15 Iraq began secretly destroyed SCUDs it didn’t want to declare to UN

 

Jul 18 Fighting broke out between army and Kurds in Irbil and Sulaymaniya

Jul 18 Iraq finished hiding all its major WMD equipment from Al Alam Most of it was sent to Tikrit

area

Jul 18 UN inspectors formally condemned Iraq for violating agreement over inspections

Jul 18 UN inspectors found hidden Iraqi missile program and destroyed equipment

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 19 Demonstration in Kurdistan over food shortages led to police firing into crowd

            Led to 2 days of fighting with 100 killed

Jul 19 UN complained Baghdad blocking it from helping displaced in southern marshes

Jul 19 Saddam ordered that all nuclear activities be presented to inspectors Ordered all materials to be

destroyed Would prove long term problem because Iraq couldn’t prove to inspectors what it did without documents

 

Jul 20 KDP and PUK launched attacks in Irbil, Dohuk, Sulaymaniya provinces UN said

            Kurds had taken large parts of Sulaymaniya Iraq accused Iran of interference

 

Jul 21 PM Hammadi met with Barzani to try to stop fighting and reach deal on Kurdish autonomy

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Jul 24 Operation Provide Comfort II started to enforce northern fly zone and contain Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Jul 26 Iraq failed deadline to disclose nuclear program to UN inspectors Earlier in Jul US threatened

to bomb Iraq’s nuclear facilities and other targets if didn’t come clean about program

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 27 4^th International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team entered Iraq Concluded Iraq had

            a nuclear bomb program

 

Jul 29 Talabani said that without another major international relief effort Kurds would face another

disaster

 

Jul 30 Iraq admitted to have four times as many chemical munitions as it claimed before to UN

weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Aug 4 Baath ordered property in Kirkuk to be given to Arabs and building over 2700

            new homes for them

 

Aug 5 2,000 Turkish troops invaded 3 districts of Kurdistan in retaliation for PKK attack

            in Turkey KDP and PUK supported Turkey PKK criticized them for doing so

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 6 Iraq told UN weapons inspectors that it worked on anthrax and botulin toxin as part of its

            biological weapons program

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Aug 7 Inspectors interviewed nuclear scientist Jafar who admitted to weaponization of nuclear

program

 

Aug 8 3^rd WMD inspection team arrived in Iraq Baghdad admitted it worked on supergun

            program

(Musings On Iraq review Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003)

Aug 8 Turkish launched major incursion into Kurdistan against PKK

 

Aug 11 US flew U2 spy plane over Iraq claiming it was for UN inspectors

 

Aug 13 Baghdad and KDP restarted talks over Kurdish autonomy

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Aug 15 UN Resolution 706 proposed Iraq import petroleum products to alleviate

            humanitarian situation caused by sanctions Iraq rejected plan as violation of its sovereignty

Aug 15 UN Resolution 707 said Iraq was in flagrant violation of weapons inspectors 

            Allowed inspectors to use planes and helicopters for flights inside Iraq

Aug 15 Baghdad objected to Res 707 saying US had flown U2 spy plane over Iraq

            claiming it was for inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Aug 19 After PKK attack in Turkey it launched incursion into Kurdistan

 

Aug 20 Barzani left Baghdad effectively ending autonomy talks with Baghdad

 

Sep 2 UN Resolution 712 said that money should be released for buying food

            and supplies for Iraqi civilians

 

Sep 4 U.N. investigation of impact of sanctions on Iraq suggested Oil for Food program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Sep 6 4^th WMD inspection team arrived in Iraq Baghdad refused to allow them to use their

            own helicopters Offered to have Iraqi army fly them around

 

Sep 9 UN reported clashes between Kurds and Iraqi army in Kurdistan 16 dead

 

Sep 11 Iraqi intel created plan to undermine Bush’s new world order Proposed committee to lead

influence operations around world Recruit foreign agents Mobilize foreign supporters against sanctions on Iraq

 

Sep 13 U.N. Resolution 712 passed to implement Resolution 706 proposing oil for food program Iraq

still rejected program as violation of Iraqi sovereignty

Sep 13 PM Hamdi said reconstruction possible only if economy and govt liberalized and followed all

            UN resolutions to end sanctions Saddam rejected idea and had Hamdi resign

 

Sep 16 Mohammed Zubaidi became Iraq’s premier

 

Sep 19 UN Resolution 712 that offered Oil for Food program rejected by Iraq 2^nd time

 

Sep 22 UN inspectors went to Nuclear Design Center in Baghdad Found docs that detailed secret

nuclear weapons program and secret facility in Baghdad

 

Sep 24 UN Inspectors found over 53,000 documents on Iraq’s nuclear program at Atheer facility Tried

to smuggle docs Iraqis said couldn’t take docs Could copy them Led to 4 day standoff During standoff US IAEA member Gallucci sent important info about docs to State Dept Head inspector Ekeus complained about Gallucci’s actions

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

Sep 24 Talabani accused Iraqi army of stopping 300,000 displaced Kurds from returning

            to their homes

 

Sep 25 Barzani and Talabani went to Baghdad to negotiate with Saddam over governance

            in Kurdistan after uprising

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Sep 25 US sent 96 Patriot missiles and 1,380 troops to Saudi Arabia over Iraq holding UN

inspectors hostages inside Atheer nuclear facility

 

Sep 27 Iraq allowed inspectors out of Nuclear Design Center in Baghdad with some of docs they

found after 4 day standoff

 

Oct 6 Clashes between Kurds and Iraqi army in Kalar

 

Oct 7 Peshmerga executed 60 Iraqi soldiers captured in Sulaymaniya 50 people killed

            in fighting in Kurdistan

Oct 7 Kurdish Front consisting of main Kurdish parties said it would combat the PKK

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Oct 8 Fighting broke out between army and Peshmerga in Sulaymaniya 400 killed before

            ceasefire reached with army withdrawing

 

Oct 10 Western troops withdrew from southern Turkey Led to clashes between Iraqi army and

            Peshmerga in Sulaymaniya Kifri Kala

 

Oct 11 Iraq rejected UN Resolution 715 which extended UN weapons inspections and created

permanent monitoring system at Iraq’s weapons sites

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Oct 15 Report UN inspectors said Iraq worked on hydrogen bomb before Gulf War Found program

more advanced than previously thought Iraq could’ve had bomb in a year

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Oct 20 Report Saddam was arming PKK to fight Turkey

Oct 20 Iraqi govt forces withdrew from Dohuk Irbil and Sulaymaniya Imposed economic boycott on

provinces

 

Oct 21 Iraq admitted to UN weapons inspectors it had program to build a nuclear bomb

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

Oct 21 US and western health study found Iraq’s power system repaired and working at 68% of

prewar levels Found power plants out of spare parts which meant system would eventually decay

 

Oct 22 Govt told Kurdish workers that if they wanted to keep their jobs they had to move

            to govt controlled areas of Kurdistan

 

Oct 23 Baghdad imposed economic embargo on Kurdistan in retaliation for clashes with

            Peshmerga

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

Oct 23 Saddam held ceremony for Gulf War Gave TV speech that Iraq would never give into foreign

demands Dropped talk of democratic reforms

 

Nov 4 Iraqi army blocked all roads into Kurdistan starting economic blockade

 

Nov 10 Iraqi army attacked Peshmerga in Dawud after they refused to retreat to Irbil

Nov 10 Saddam dismissed son-in-law Def Min Hussein Kamil and replaced him with cousin Ali

Hassan al-Majid who was Interior Minister

 

Nov 12 Govt and Kurds agreed to ceasefire Iraq would end blockade of Kurdistan

            and Peshmerga would withdraw to Irbil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Nov 13 Saddam replaced cousin Interior Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid with his half brother Wathban

Ibrahim Hassan

Nov 13 Wall St Journal OpEd by Chalabi Called for US backing for his plan to seize territory in

north Iraq set up provisional govt and then get US military intervention to start revolt and overthrow Saddam and create a democracy

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Nov 14 Kurds announced tentative deal with Saddam to end blockade of Kurdistan in

            return for Peshmerga withdrawing from cities

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Nov 19 UN report said Iraqi forces used torture and mass killings to put down Shiite

            uprising after Gulf War

 

Nov 25 Report US companies sold Iraq equipment for nuke triggers 1984-90 US approved $25 mil in

computer sales to Iraq that helped nuke program EEurope helped Iraqi scientists with nuke research Yugoslavia built uranium enrichment lab in Baghdad Got uranium from Brazil Portugal Niger Germany Italy France Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia provided explosives for program

 

Nov 30 After fighting ended Iraq and KDP restarted talks over Kurdish autonomy

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Dec 9 Report US military opposed White House plans to overthrow Saddam Didn't think would work

 

Dec 12 Consignment of paper for hospitals doctors for Iraq blocked by US in UN sanctions

committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Dec 16 KDP announced plans for elections for Kurdish parliament Iraq agreed Kurdish MPs not to

swear allegiance to Baath

 

Dec 22 Chalabi appeared on 60 Minutes attacking King Hussein of Jordan for aligning with Saddam

Was actually meant as attack on Jordan for shutting Chalabi’s Petra Bank for corruption

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

 

Dec 26 Syria invited Iraqi opposition parties to Damascus

 

1992

Jan 9 Report Est 70,000-90,000 Iraqis died in aftermath of Gulf War due to damage to

infrastructure done by bombing 2,500-3,000 Iraqis est to have died during war from bombings Est 30,000 died in 1991 uprising

 

Jan 14 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that it was trying to enrich uranium to build a

            nuclear bomb

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

Jan 14 Kurds attacked Baath offices in Baghdad killing 36

 

Jan 16 Report Iraq using front companies in Jordan and Switzerland to get around sanctions

Saddam also had fund that sustained him and family

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Jan 16 During election campaign Bush said Gulf War a success Predicted downfall of Saddam

White House spokesman called for Iraqis to overthrow govt

 

Jan 19 Report Saudis pushing US to help foment military coup in Iraq to topple

            Saddam

 

Jan 20 Report UN inspectors found equipment to build 2,000 centrifuges German and Austria

companies sold parts for program Iraqi scientists said Saddam wanted nuclear bomb to compete with Israel

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)

 

Feb 6 Consignment of ping pong balls from Vietnam to Iraq blocked by US UK France Japan in UN

sanctions committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Feb 7 Report presidential campaign renewed Bush’s wish to overthrow Saddam CIA Dir Gates went

to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to discuss plans

 

Feb 8 Report Bush authorized $30 mil CIA program to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq 92 When The CIA Tried To Undermine Iraq’s Economy In Failed Plot Against Saddam)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Feb 16 Defense Secretary Cheney said that if U.S. had overthrown Saddam would have to

decide what kind of govt to establish Would have been hard to capture Saddam How many casualties willing to take to accomplish that How many troops would have to stay in Iraq to keep govt going

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Feb 23 Report when Bush elected senior officials pushed Agriculture Dept to give billions in loans

to Iraq to buy US farm products Agriculture was afraid Iraq could not pay back money and that some of it was being used for weapons Oct 89 Bush signed NSD 26 saying US had to maintain good relations with Iraq to secure Persian Gulf Nov 89 Bush okayed $1 bil aid package to Iraq Apr and Jun 90 White House rejected call to limit high tech sales to Iraq that could be used for weapons programs

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Feb 28 Iraqi army attacked Peshmerga in Kalak

 

Feb 29 Iraq supported a mock war crimes trial headed by fmr Attny Gen Clark in New York City

 

Mar 2 Peshmerga launched counterattack upon Iraqi army in Kalak 60 killed

Mar 2 UN investigation found that govt had executed hundreds of Shiites in southern

            marshes in recent months

 

Mar 6 Saddam regime suspected of car bombing in central Sulaymaniya outside Kurdish

            party offices

 

May 11 Saddam said Kurds could not hold elections for parliament until they gave up

            protection of Coalition forces

Mar 11 Iraq objected to UN inspections claiming they were trying to deindustrialize country by

blocking use of dual use equipment

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Mar 12 UN Security Council condemned Iraq over inspections Said inspectors were final decider on

whether Iraq disarmed or not

 

Mar 16 Saddam govt set off car bomb in Irbil after warning Kurds not to ally with

            foreign powers

 

Mar 17 Report in 1991 Bush admin tried to block release of information about White

            House support for Iraq before Kuwait invasion

 

Mar 19 Iraq issued 2^nd weapons declaration Admitted that 1^st declaration was incomplete Admitted

that it hadn’t declared 89 SCUD missiles and 8 launchers

 

Mar 24 Iraqi army began shelling Kifri as sporadic fighting with Peshmerga continued

 

Apr 5 Iran bombed Mujahadeen e-Khalq base in Iraq

 

Apr 8 Kurds announced elections for Kurdish parliament and leader would be held 5/17/92

 

Apr 9 Ahmed Chalabi convicted of financial fraud in Jordan for his Petra Bank Chalabi claimed it

was a political plot by Jordan and Iraq but his bank was mismanaged Banks faked Made insider trades embezzled money and more

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Apr 13 Secretary of Defense Cheney said US didn’t overthrow Saddam in Gulf War

            because would be too difficult to occupy Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Apr 14 US UK France warned Iraq to stop military buildup along border with Kurdistan

 

Apr 28 Report CIA continued to give intel to Iraq until day it invaded Kuwait in Aug 90

Apr 28 Campaign for a Free Iraq brought 17,000 mini coffins to Iraqi embassy in London to

symbolize victims of Saddam Was paid for by Rendon Group hired by CIA to promote Iraqi opposition

 

May 9 Saddam discussed assassinating Mubarak and King Fahd because they backed

            US in Gulf War

 

May 14 Iraqi govt suspected of setting off car bomb in front of Dohuk hotel hosting

foreign reporters covering Kurdish elections

 

May 18 William Safire NYTimes OpEd Said Bush admin fraudulently used govt money to support

Iraq Deceived Congress about it Obstructed justice covering up policy from investigators Called it Iraqgate

 

May 19 Kurds held election for 105 seat regional parliament and president 7 parties ran 4 candidates

for leader KDP won 51 seats PUK 49 in new Kurdish parliament Barzani gave 1 seat to PUK to maintain Kurdish unity Was voter fraud and rules meant only KDP and PUK could win seats

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

 

May 21 Bush admin decided an admin official would testify to Congress about credit program for

Iraq some of which was used to buy tech and arms Was Dep Sec of State and point man on Mideast Lawrence Eagleburger 1983 he lobbied Eximbank to offer loan guarantees to Iraq despite banks worries Iraq involved in terrorism 1989 he helped Sec State Baker force through loan guarantees for Iraq over objections of govt depts 1990  he took part in White House meeting when Bush admin decided to push for good relations with Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

May 27 Report US covert campaign vs Iraq included sending in counterfeit dinars and dollars into

country to undermine economy

(Musings On Iraq 92 When The CIA Tried To Undermine Iraq’s Economy In Failed Plot Against Saddam)

 

May 31 Bush proposed doubling budget for covert action to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Jun 4 New Kurdish parliament met first time Jawhar Salim elected speaker Cabinet also announced

 

Jun 8 10 killed in Chamchamal in fighting between KDP and PUK

 

Jun 16 Most of the Iraqi opposition met in Vienna Did not include KDP and PUK Led to

creation of Iraqi National Congress as umbrella organization First time quotas used to break up representatives by ideology and ethnosectarian identity Paid for by CIA

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)

(Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq)

 

Jun 28 Report 2 yrs before Gulf War US intel was warning about Iraq’s WMD nuclear and missile

programs Jan 89 Congress got briefing on Iraq’s weapons procurement programs Spring and summer 89 intel reports warned about Iraq’s networks Nov 89 CIA told Bush White House Iraq using front companies to buy tech for nuke program Had no effect on Bush’s policy to improve relations with Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Jun 29 Attempted coup by 4 officers in Republican Guard put down by Saddam 150

            Republican Guard officers executed and dismissed in aftermath

 

Jul 2 Govt began draining southern marshes to force out rebels and displaced

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Jul 4 New Kurdish parliament met first time Jawhar Salim elected speaker Cabinet also

            announced

 

Jul 5 Iraq refused to allow UN inspectors into Agriculture Min where hidden docs supposed to be at

causing a crisis

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Jul 6 UN Security Council demanded Iraq allow inspectors into Agricultural Min Iraq began

demonstration outside ministry 

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 7 Inspectors in 3^rd day of standoff outside Agriculture Min as Iraqi demonstrations grew

 

Jul 9 20 Democrats on House Judiciary Comm wrote letter to Attorney Gen Barr Cited potential

criminal conduct by high Bush admin officials over giving credit to Iraq some of which used to buy arms and tech for WMD nuclear missile programs

 

Jul 10 Largest Iraqi demonstration so far against inspectors outside Agriculture Min Threw fruits and

vegetables at inspectors

 

Jul 13 Report Atlanta bank main financier of US exports to Iraq used govt guaranteed loans Lent

Iraq $5.2 bil Bank raided in Aug 89 Oct 89 Agricultural Dept found most credit to Iraq being used for weapons programs Found Iraq had front companies in US to buy tech Justice Dept tried to block investigations into matter 

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Jul 18 Tariq Aziz proposed that experts from non-aligned countries on Security Council inspect

Agriculture Ministry Rejected by UN inspectors Bush threatened military action if inspectors not let in

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 21 UN inspectors withdrew from outside Agriculture Ministry Had been outside for 2 weeks

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 22 Iraq bombed southern rebels killing 30

Jul 22 Report Sep 89 CIA told Sec Sate Baker Iraq working on nuclear bomb Bush admin did not

put any limits on tech going to Iraq that could help with program because policy was to improve relations Oct 89 Baker told Iraq’s Foreign Min admin would not put any export controls on tech sold to Iraq Nov 89 Baker played leading role in approving $1 bil in food aid to Iraq Some of that money used for weapons

 

Jul 25 PUK head Talabani said he wanted to join a democratic Turkey rather than stay part of Iraq

Came after talks between Turkey and KDP-PUK after Gulf War and pledges by them to stop the PKK

 

Jul 26 Iraq agreed to UN inspection of Agriculture Min after two week standoff as long as

            wouldn’t include any Americans

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 28 UN inspectors went through Agriculture Min but found nothing as Iraqis had removed all

            WMD docs

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 29 Sec State Baker and Natl Sec Adv Scowcroft met with Ahmed Chalabi Talked about Iraqi

campaign against rebels in southern marshes and pushed for southern no fly zone Baker said US would stand with Iraqi opposition Bush wanted to increase pressure on Iraq during presidential campaign

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Jul 30 Iraqi forces surrounded Shiite rebels in southern marshes and bombed them

 

Aug 2 Kuwait and Saudi officials argued that Iraq should be divided along ethnosectarian lines to

            stop threat of country to Persian Gulf

 

Aug 4 Iraqi army shelled Kurdish positions in Kirkuk province

Aug 4 Report Pentagon wanted to set up military exchange in Iraq 3 months before invasion of

Kuwait Came after Saddam threatened to burn half of Israel and Iraq caught trying to smuggle in nuclear triggers State Dept blocked plan

Aug 4 Consignment of children’s bicycles for Iraq blocked by US and UK in UN sanctions

committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Aug 7 Inspectors found documents on missiles at facility that wasn’t declared to UN

 

Aug 10 Govt curfew in Najaf to try to stop march after death of Ayatollah Khoei

 

Aug 11 U.N. Iraq Rapporteur went to Security Council about Iraq draining southern

            marshes and new counterinsurgency campaign against rebels in south

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

Aug 11 UK France US condemned Iraq campaign to clear southern marshes and warned

            of possible consequences

 

Aug 26 UN Res 688 said ethnic and civilian communities in Iraq need to be protected from

            govt attacks

Aug 26 US, UK, France started Operation Southern Watch creating southern no fly zone over Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Aug 27 Report US funneled counterfeit dinars into Iraq to try to undermine economy and

            Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

 

Aug 30 Reports that govt arrested Shiites in south and moved them into camps

 

Sep 7 Report US hoped that new no fly zone in south might cause coup against Saddam

 

Sep 9 Saudi officials claimed Iran was sending in weapons and agents into south Iraq taking

advantage of no fly zone to create a pro-Tehran state

 

Sep 13 Iraq told inspectors that in July 1991 it unilaterally and secretly destroyed its WMD

 

Sep 15 PUK and KDP agreed to merge their Peshmerga under command of Kurdish parliament

Never done

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Divided Kurds, Political Divisions Amongst The Peshmerga Interview With Wladimir van Wilgenburg)

 

Sep 22 Report In 1989 Bush admin told Iraq harboring Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas and Abu

Nidal Didn’t change policy to improve relations with Saddam

 

Oct 2 UN Res 778 authorized Iraq oil revenues to be deposited in UN controlled bank

            until sanctions lifted

 

Oct 3 SCIRI wrote letter to UN attacking Saddam’s repression in southern Iraq Said Iraqi forces

killed 25,000 Shiite women and children in detention camps Moved Shiites from south to North Called for removal of Iraqi army from the south

 

Oct 9 Report After Kuwait invasion Iraq defaulted on loans backed by US Meant US had to pay

debts to bank partly owned by Iraq Justice Dept warned payments would be helping Iraq but US made them anyway

Oct 9 CIA told Congress Justice Dept told it to withhold info on Atlanta bank used by Iraq to buy

US farm products but also weapons tech Justice Dept tried to block investigation into bank

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Oct 16 Turkish army launched ground assault into Kurdistan to attack PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 21 Peshmerga helped Turkish troops fight PKK in northern Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Oct 21 Experts challenged Bush’s claim during presidential debate no US tech used for Iraq’s nuke

program Inspectors found US computers and equipment was used US Customs investigated US tech going to Iraq for program 91 UN listed foreign tech found in Iraq’s nuke program and included US companies

 

Oct 22 Inspectors interviewed Gen Ayubi in charge of SCUDs during Gulf War Said he moved

missiles from Anbar facing Israel to south facing Saudi Arabia without Coalition finding out Said didn’t lose a single launcher during war US claimed it destroyed several

 

Oct 25 Report Sec State Baker okayed $1 bil trade deal with Iraq in 89 even though told included

kickbacks hiking prices buying weapons and tech because US wanted better relations with Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Oct 26 Report Aug 89 FBI raided Atlanta bank that made $5 bil in fraudulent loans to Iraq Baghdad

used some of that money to buy weapons and tech for weapons or bought US farm products and traded those for weapons from other countries programs Bush admin tried to block investigation into bank

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Oct 27 Report before Gulf War Bush admin approved sale of computers and software to Iraq that

were used on missile and supergun programs

(Musings On Iraq review Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003)

Oct 27 UK approved illegal sales of equipment to Iraq before Kuwait invasion that were used for

weapons programs Deals were made to collect intel on Iraq

Oct 27 Opposition meeting in Salahaddin, Kurdistan called for democratic and federal Iraq Made

INC umbrella organization with ethnosectarian quotas

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)

(Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq, Antagonistic Visions of Unity)

Oct 27 PUK KDP PKK signed ceasefire after PUK and KDP helped Turks attack PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Oct 27 Inspectors interviewed Dr Jabouri missile fuel expert who said Iraq imported SCUD fuel from

Germany Numbers didn’t add up to number of missiles Iraq declared Led inspectors to believe that Iraq was hiding SCUDs

 

Oct 29 Nail polish and lipstick for Iraq blocked by UK in UN sanctions committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Oct 30 Kurds allowed PKK to retreat further into Kurdistan on condition they stopped

            military operations against Turks

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

Oct 30 Report CIA and maybe DIA knew Iraq using front companies to buy goods and tech from US

for weapons programs and didn't tell anyone in govt

 

Nov 1 Report UN inspectors found US companies contributed to Iraq’s nuke program CIA knew

about deals and did nothing 200 of 770 US licensed exports to Iraq went to weapons programs 1985-90 US sold $1.5 bil in dual use goods to Iraq that probably went to weapons

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Nov 4 Saddam told top Baath officials that election of Pres Clinton might usher in better Iraq-US

relations

Nov 4 Fmr Trade Min official in Thatcher govt testified in court on UK Matrix Churchill company

owned by Iraq Head of company accused of violating export laws by lying about military use of equipment sent to Iraq

 

Nov 13 Turkey began withdrawing troop after month long operation in norther Kurdistan against

PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 14 Iranian Turkish Syrian officials met in Ankara Condemned Kurdish autonomous

            region and warned they would not allow break up of Iraq

 

Nov 30 Amnesty International report on Saddam’s repression of Marsh Arabs in south Iraq

 

Dec 9 US judge held press conference Said no cover up of US credits that were used by Iraq to buy

arms and tech for its WMD nuclear missiles programs Said nothing wrong with investigation into BNL bank in Atlanta that gave Iraq credit Blamed media for controversy Said CIA made mistakes trying to clear docs for investigations Said CIA did nothing wrong Admitted he didn’t look into whether CIA knew about Iraq loans Also didn’t look into whether arms were exported to Iraq Denied govt pressured prosecutors not to indict BNL in Italy in case Everything he said was a lie

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

 

Dec 17 Iraqi army moved north into Kurdish autonomous region claiming it was a military exercise

 

1993

Jan 4 Iraq deployed 20 anti-aircraft missiles batteries within the No Fly Zone to challenge

            the west

 

Jan 5 US England and France demanded that Iraq remove anti-aircraft missiles from

            No Fly Zone Iraq complied

Jan 5 Outgoing Sec State Eagleburger wrote new Sec State Christopher that Saddam wanted to break

out of containment and would continuously challenge US

 

Jan 6 US Russia France England agreed to enforce UN Resolution 688 that condemned

            Iraq’s repression of its population

 

Jan 7 US and allies attack missiles moved into No Fly Zone and a nuclear facility near Baghdad

 

Jan 8 Iraq told inspectors they had to enter Iraq on Iraqi planes not UN ones Iraq warned that it was in

material breach of weapons inspections and would suffer consequences

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jan 9 Iraq refused to allow inspectors to fly to Baghdad from Bahrain Demanded they use Iraqi

planes UN Security Council warned of serious consequences if Iraq didn’t relent

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Jan10 Iraq began entering demilitarized zone along Kuwait border to retrieve equipment UN

Security Council warned of serious consequences unless Iraq stopped

 

Jan 11 US launched air strikes against Iraqi air defenses in retaliation for trying to restrain inspectors

entering Iraq

 

Jan 13 US UK and France carried out air and missile strikes on Iraqi air defenses for not cooperating

with UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Jan 14 US demanded Iraq remove police posts in demilitarized zone along Kuwait border Area

was to be returned to Kuwait on Jan15

 

Jan 15 1200 US troops arrived in Kuwait Iraq said it would guarantee safety of UN inspector

            flights

 

Jan 17 Iraq said it couldn’t guarantee of UN planes flying into Iraq US fired 45 Tomahawk missiles at

Baghdad for not allowing U.N. inspectors into country

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Jan 18 US UK and France carried 3^rd day of air strikes on Iraq for not cooperating with UN

inspectors 21 killed

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Jan 19 US UK France carried out 4^th day of air strikes for Iraq not cooperating with UN inspectors

Jan 19 Iraq announced unilateral ceasefire for Clinton’s inauguration Saddam was hoping for better

            relations

 

Jan 21 Iraq demanded US review no fly zones

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Jan 22 Clinton launched airstrikes on Iraqi air defenses for targeting Coalition planes in northern no fly

zone

 

Jan 31 Iraqi forces attacked Irbil

 

Feb 24 CIA Dir Woolsey told Senate Iraq’s biological weapons was greatest concern Iraq had

advanced program before Gulf War and hadn’t been degraded by war or inspectors

 

Mar 2 After southern no fly zone created Iraqi forces began shelling and attacking southern marsh

villages 

 

Mar 4 Consignment of tennis balls children’s clothes adult clothes pencils sharpeners erasers school

notebooks sent by Pakistan to Iraq blocked by US UK France Japan in UN sanctions committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Mar 12 Iraqi army attacked Aweina Kurdistan killing 30

 

Apr 14 During trip to Kuwait Iraqi intelligence attempted to assassinate fmr Pres Bush

 

Apr 15 Iraqi army began two week operation to attack Kurdish towns 5,000 Kurds displaced

 

Apr 17 During military operation against Kurds Iraqi army arrested 7,000 people including

            members of Kurdistan parliament

 

May 27 UN Resolution 833 set Iraq-Kuwait border

 

Jun 26 Pres Clinton ordered cruise missile attack on Iraq’s intel HQ in Baghdad for

            attempted assassination of ex-Pres Bush in Kuwait

 

Jun 30 Barzani and Talabani presented their differences to Kurdish parliament Was mostly about

grievances over taxes collected from trade with Iran and Turkey

 

Jul 17 Govt started rounding up coup plotters Reportedly 1,200 army officers arrested

 

Jul 21 UNHCR spokesman said that 3,000 Shiites fled to Iran to avoid Iraqi army

            attacks on villages in southern marshes

 

Jul 24 Kurds threatened retaliation if Iran didn’t stop shelling of border region trying to

            hit Iranian Kurdish groups

Jul 24 Cotton for medical use for Iraq blocked by UK in UN sanctions committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Jul 27 Iran asked for aid for 4,000 Iraqi refugees that entered country as southern marshes were

            drained

 

Sep 5 Ahmad al-Samarraie became premier of Iraq

 

Sep 6 Report Even if inspectors said Iraq was cooperating Clinton admin wanted track record of

compliance before even thinking about ending sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Sep 17 Shroud material for burying bodies for Iraq blocked by US and UK in UN sanctions

committee Then approved by UK Then license revoked by UN sanctions committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Oct 15 Chief UN inspector Ekeus told Security Council progress had been made on missile

chemical and nuclear programs Iraq was hoping its recent concessions would end sanctions

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Nov 17 Iran reported 60,000 Iraqi refugees entered country after Saddam drained southern marshes

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Nov 23 UN reported that Iraqi govt had drained 40% of southern marshes to drive out displaced and

rebels

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Nov 26 Iraq accepted UN Resolution 715 to extend UN weapons inspections Initially rejected

resolution Also agreed to long term monitoring of WMD sites

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Dec 20 Presidential Council created in Kurdistan to try to bring KDP and PUK leaders directly into

administration Failed

 

Dec 27 State Dept accused Iraq of indiscriminate shelling/bombing burning villages

            and executions in southern marshes

 

Dec 28 Saddam escaped assassination attempt

 

1994

Jan 13 US UK French planes bombed Amara Basra Najaf Samawa Talil to knock out air defense

systems and telecommunications Missed ½ the targets 19 killed

 

Jan 15 Iraq upset with inspectors and sanctions tried to limit UN flights within the country

 

Jan 22 Gen Samarraie fmr head of Military Intel told CIA officer Baer in Kurdistan he represented

group of military officers that wanted to get rid of Saddam Wanted to know if US would back their effort

 

Feb 23 Saddam diverted Tigris River away from southern marshes to put down rebels

            there

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Mar 16 Ahmed Chalabi and Chibli Mallat created Iraq Trust Claimed it wanted to settle Iraqi exiles

using frozen Iraqi assets in US and England Was actually attempt by Chalabi to take control of money

 

Mar 17 English scientists estimated 57% of southern marshes had been drained by

            Saddam to drive out displaced and rebels

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Mar 29 Saddam became prime minister of Iraq

 

Apr 25 Govt announced completion of Mother of all Battles Irrigation Canal meant to

            drain southern marshes to drive out displaced and rebels

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Apr 29 Iraqi army launched new military campaign to drive out displaced and rebels

            from southern marshes

Apr 29 Sec State Christopher wrote NYTimes OpEd Said Iraq complying with UN Res 687 was not

enough to end sanctions Contradicted resolution

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

May 1 Land dispute in Qala Dizel began civil war between PUK and KDP 400 killed in fighting

over next month

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 18 US pushed through UN call for Iraq to stop attacks on southern marshes as part of

            ending sanctions

 

May 20 SCIRI claimed start of military campaign in Maysan marshes against Iraqi

            govt forces

 

Jun 1 Barzani and Talabani agreed to 50-50 power sharing deal to jointly run Kurdistan

            administration

Jun 1 600 killed in week’s worth of fighting between KDP and PUK especially around

            Halabja

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jun 12 8,000 Kurdish refugees who had fled to Turkey after 91 uprising moved back into

            Iraq to escape fighting between PKK and Turkish army

 

Jun 15 Fighting broke out between PUK and KDP in Sulaymaniya during funeral

            leaving 12 dead more than 40 wounded

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jun 24 SCIRI claimed govt building new canal to drain southern marshes and drive

            out displaced and rebels

(Musings On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq)

 

Jun 26 US fired 23 cruise missiles at Iraqi intel building in Baghdad 8 killed in retaliation

            for Iraqi attempt to assassinate fmr Pres Bush 8 killed

 

Jul 4 Barzani and Talabani announced they were still unified against Iraqi govt while

            PUK and KDP were in middle of civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jul 16 KDP-PUK talks in Paris led to draft constitution for Kurdistan

 

Aug 7 PUK fought with Kurdistan Islamic League along Iranian border

 

Aug 26 Iraqi Vanguard for National Salvation took responsibility for car bomb in Baghdad

 

Aug 28 King Hussein of Jordan and Turkish Pres Demirel called for easing sanctions on Iraq

 

Sep 4 Iraq accused Iran of arming Shiite opposition groups in southern marshes

 

Sep 7 CIA estimated that over 100,000 driven out of marshes in Maysan by military

            campaign

 

Sep 8 UK intel report said that it didn’t think Iraq had declared all of its chemical

            weapons programs

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Sep 18 UN Security Council reviewed sanctions Tariq Aziz said if UN agreed to UN Res 833 on Iraq-

Kuwait border oil embargo should end US said Iraq not fully complied with inspections No changes made

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Oct 3 Iraq Information Min Hammadi said if embargo continued Iraq would have to find new ways

to deal with U.N.

 

Oct 4 Iraq said it would not cooperate with UN inspectors if no assurance given that sanctions would

end

 

Oct 6 Iraq put troops on Kuwait border and threatened to stop working with UN weapons inspectors

Saddam afraid Iraq falling from intl attention and wanted to make Iraq news again

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Oct 8 Iraq’s 15^th Mechanized Brigade was 20 km from Kuwait border

Oct 8 US France UK deployed troops to Persian Gulf in response to Saddam putting troops on

            Kuwait border

Oct 8 President of UN Security Council demanded that Iraq withdraw its troops from Kuwait border

Oct 8 SCIRI asked international community to give it control of sections of southern Iraq

 

Oct 10 Clinton decided to continue Bush’s policy of undermining Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Oct 10 UN inspectors reported to Security Council Said Iraq had not fully complied to end

sanctions

Oct 10 1,000 UK Marines deployed to Kuwait after Iraq put troops on border

Oct 10 Iraq announced it was withdrawing troops from Kuwait border

 

Oct 12 SCIRI claimed clashes between Iraqi forces and opposition in Diwaniya

 

Oct 13 Russia got Iraq to agree to UN Res 833 on Iraq-Kuwait border and promised to work to

            lift sanctions

 

Oct 15 Iraq withdrew troops from Kuwait border after Russian diplomacy and UN Resolution 949

that demanded withdrawal Resolution also called for Iraq’s full cooperation with UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Oct 17 Russia urged UN to lift oil embargo on Iraq after it withdrew its troops from Kuwait border

Russia said sanctions should be allowed to expire unless Security Council voted to continue them

Oct 17 Iraqi defector Saadi claimed he went to Jordan with Mukhabarat to buy nuclear material from

Russians for a bomb

 

Oct 20 US and UK sent warnings they would use military force if Iraq tried to build up military again

in south to threaten Kuwait

 

Nov 6 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Mujahadeen e-Khalq camp in Iraq

 

Nov 10 Iraq parliament recognized Kuwait’s border and independence under UN Res 833

 

Nov 14 US said Iraq not fully revealed its WMD programs to try to block UN Res 833 on

            Iraq-Kuwait border being completed

 

Nov 21 KDP and PUK signed new strategic agreement Didn’t stop disagreements over tariffs and

control of Irbil

 

Nov 24 Barzani and Talabani signed ceasefire to end KDP-PUK civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 27 Iraq finally agreed to border with Kuwait

 

Dec 13 KDP and PUK went back to war ending shortlived ceasefire over argument

            over tax collection

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

1995

Jan 1 Civil war between PUK and KDP killed more than 500 over control of Irbil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jan 6 Tariq Aziz met with French Foreign Min Juppe in France to discuss ending sanctions

 

Jan 16 UN asked Iran to relocate 4,000 Shiite refugees away from border which Iraq

            had claimed was being used for base for attacks

 

Jan 21 CIA set up base in Kurdistan to collect intel on Iraq Ahmed Chalabi presented fmr Gen

Samarriea who’d been in charge of military intel and his plan for a coup Chalabi added his revolt idea to it

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Jan 25 Saddam discussed how Iraq had created a deterrent to protect every Arab capital

            from Israel with WMD

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

 

Feb 11 SCIRI’s Badr claimed it destroyed an Iraqi army brigade in Maysan

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

 

Feb 12 Iraqi army brigade attacked and suffered heavy losses at hands of Badr Brigade in Qurna

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

 

Feb 17 Temporary ceasefire made between PUK and KDP during civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Feb 19 Iraqi representatives met with bin Laden in Sudan who asked for broadcast of

jihadist lectures and asked for joint ops against foreigners in Saudi Arabia Meeting confirmed in Iraqi intel report Only confirmed meeting between two sides

 

Feb 20 KDP and PUK resumed fighting in Rawandaz Irbil ending ceasefire

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Feb 27 Car bomb in Zakho killed 76 PUK blamed Baghdad KDP blamed PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Mar 1 Iraqi National Accord head Nouri went to US and argued against backing INC’s

            uprising plan Nouri able to talk Clinton admin out of supporting INC’s plan

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Mar 2 US intercepted Iraqi report that it had uncovered INC-KDP-PUK uprising White House had

not been informed about plan NSC ordered CIA to withdraw any support for plan

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

Mar 2 US intercepted Iraqi report that it had uncovered INC-KDP-PUK revolt plan CIA officer

called White House and talked with Dep Natl Sec Adv Indyk Said Saddam was mobilizing Republican Guard to attack Kurdistan to stop revolt Was 1^st time White House heard about revolt Indyk took news to Natl Sec Adv Lake He called CIA Dir Studeman Chewed him out for not telling White House about plan Lake ordered revolt be stopped

 

Mar 3 Natl Sec Adv Lake cabled CIA officer Bear in Kurdistan to call off INC-PUNK revolt White

House not told about plan beforehand Heard Saddam discovered plot already

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Mar 4 INC and PUK attacked Iraqi forces in planned uprising against Saddam but failed CIA

supported INC plan but White House not informed and called off revolt KDP refused to join as a result 

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

Mar 4 Saddam told of meeting with bin Laden Saddam agreed to broadcast anti-Saudi lectures Said

future relations would be determined by more talks Only confirmed meeting between Iraq and Al Qaeda

 

Mar 5 INC claimed fighting between opposition and Iraqi forces in Qurna as part of planned uprising

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Mar 6 Fmr head of Military Intel Gen Samarraie told CIA officer Bear he was going to Syria because

            Saddam had arrested his co-conspirators in Iraq

 

Mar 11 PUK suicide bomber hit KDP headquarters in Zakho

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Mar 13 UN Security Council reviewed sanctions US argued Iraq violating human rights missing

Kuwaiti nationals and Iraq not fully disclosed WMD programs to maintain embargo

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Mar 20 Operation Steel 35,000 Turkish troops invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK who

            withdrew forces from border before op

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

 

Mar 25 Iraq told UN inspectors it had produced 550lbs of VX but denied weaponizing it to try to

end US complaints and end sanctions Backfired as Security Council decided to continue them

 

Mar 27 Fighting between KDP and PUK killed 100 in Irbil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Mar 28 KDP accused PUK of attacking parliament building in Irbil city

 

Mar 30 INC and PUK attacked Iraqi forces in Kirkuk district destroying 2 brigades hoping to create

            a revolt against Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Apr 8 PUK-KDP ceasefire in civil war Turkey mediated Ankara Hoped to gain PUK-KDP help

            against PKK in return

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Apr 10 UN inspectors report Said monitoring system was running Destroyed all known nuclear

facilities

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Apr 14 UN Resolution 986 created Oil for Food Program allowing $1 bil in Iraq oil

exports every 90 days for food and humanitarian aid Saddam initially rejected 986 thinking that inspectors would clear Iraq of WMD and sanctions would soon end Proved wrong

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Apr 25 Turkey’s Operation Steel ended Withdrew 20,000 troops but left 15,000 in

            Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 2 Saddam held meeting to discuss whether Iraq should continue to cooperate with

            UN weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

May 3 KDP told Turkey it would stop PKK activities in Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 4 Turkey withdrew 15,000 troops after KDP said it would crackdown on PKK

            in Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 27 PUK and KDP met to maintain Kurdish parliament during civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 29 Saddam ordered Aziz to divulge biological weapons program to UN if inspectors gave

positive report on progress of inspections to Security Council

 

Jun 28 Sec State Albright warned UN inspectors about their credibility if they pushed ending

sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Jul 1 Iraq told UN inspectors it had a biological weapons program and made anthrax and botulinum

1989-90 Denied it weaponized agents Said hadn’t told inspectors before because WMD destroyed before Gulf War and believed US would use it as excuse to attack Iraq Inspectors didn’t believe story because why would Iraq destroy agents before war and not put them in weapons

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

Jul 1 Saddam speech Threatened to end working with UN inspectors Said he accepted UN

monitoring system of WMD sites Accepted border of Kuwait and Iraq should get end of sanctions in return

 

Jul 4 Turkey launched new operation to attack PKK in northern Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jul 8 Ceasefire in Kurdish civil war ended as PUK and KDP went back to fighting over control of

            Irbil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jul 17 PUK accused KDP of working with Iraqi army to attack Irbil

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 3 Uday’s bodyguards shot Saddam’s half brother Watban Ibrahim and killed 1 of his bodyguards

Saddam burned a garage of Uday’s afterward

 

Aug 4 Iraq presented another weapons declaration to UN that included biological weapons that it

hid before

Aug 4 Aziz repeated deadline for security council to end sanctions

 

Aug 7 Hussein and Saddam Kamil Saddam’s cousins and sons in law defected to Jordan along with

wives, Saddam’s daughters Hussein ran Iraq’s WMD programs Took $25 mil with them Hussein’s wife Raghad said if they hadn’t left would’ve bee killed by Uday Hussein

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Aug 8 Govt cut phone lines to other countries Put Republican and Special Republican

Guard on alert Put units on Baghdad streets Saddam Fedayeen put on Jordan-Iraq highway after found out Hussein Kamil defected to Jordan

Aug 8 Iraq claimed Hussein Kamil responsible for hiding weapons programs from UN

inspectors after he defected to Jordan Iraq admitted that it weaponized biological weapons to UN inspectors Hussein Kamil’s defection undermined Iraq’s program to hide its WMD and nuclear programs from UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Aug 11 Saddam gave speech denouncing son-in-law Hussein Kamil for defecting to

            Jordan Said he stole millions and spied for the CIA

Aug 11 Ali Hassan al-Majid issued statement saying Hussein Kamil was a traitor for

            defecting to Jordan

Aug 11 US brokered KDP-PUK ceasefire during civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 12 Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamil held news conference in Jordan Said he

            would overthrow Saddam after defecting

Aug 12 Ali Hassan al-Majid said clan condemned defection of Hussein Kamil to Jordan

            Said clan had decided to spill his blood

 

Aug 15 Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq denounced Jordan taking in

            Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamil calling him a murderer

 

Aug 17 Aziz told head UN inspector Ekeus Saddam’s son in law Hussein Kamil responsible for

hiding WMD info from inspectors Aziz admitted after Kuwait invasion Iraq placed biological weapons into 166 bombs and 25 missile warheads Didn’t provide any docs which led to complaints by inspectors Said Iraq tried shortcut to develop nuclear bomb

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Aug 20 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that its crash program to build a nuclear bomb failed Said

WMD docs had been discovered at Hussein Kamil’s farm Blamed him for hiding materials form inspectors Obvious to inspectors were missing docs

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Aug 22 UN interviewed Hussein Kamil fmr Industry Min and Saddam’s son-in-law that defected to

Jordan Kamil said Iraq hid WMD/nuke programs from UN but all programs ended after Gulf War Destroyed WMD stocks Said Iraq wanted to keep know how to restart WMD later on US and UN didn’t believe Iraq destroyed its WMD or stopped programs UN convinced Iraq would always hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Aug 24 UK intelligence report said Iraq had hidden much of its nuclear program

            destroyed its SCUDs and didn’t have a hidden chemical stockpile

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Aug 27 PKK attacked KDP as it was blocking its operations along Turkish border PUK Iran and

Syria gave aid to PKK KDP accused Badr and Iranian Revolutionary Guard of involvement in PKK offensive

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Sep 7 UN inspectors said Iraq admitted to producing 8,500 liters of anthrax, 19,000 liters

of botulinum more than they had declared before Iraq also started a crash program in August 1990 to make a nuclear bomb within a year but didn't have triggers

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Sep 15 PUK and KDP broke off peacetalks brokered by US to end civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 16 PKK ended its campaign against KDP

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Sep 17 SCIRI claimed it attacked 3 Iraqi army positions in Baghdad in September

 

Sep 18 Hussein Kamil interview with Time Said he defected to Jordan to help Iraq Said

Iraq had been at war too long since Iran-Iraq War Criticized Saddam for executions and arrests

 

Oct 18 Saddam met with military cmdrs Said priority was dispersing Republican Guard units  to avoid

being hit by US air strikes and making national security threats from other countries secondary concern Main concern was defending against internal revolts

 

Oct 15 Saddam won referendum for 7 more years as president with 99.9% of vote Was meant to

show public was behind Saddam after Hussein Kamil defected to Jordan

 

Oct 19 UN report said 28% of Iraqi children under 5 were severely malnourished

 

Oct 31 INC HQ in Salahaddin, Irbil bombed by Iraqi National Accord killing 28 At time

            Kurds blamed Baghdad for bombing

 

Nov 10 Jordan seized Russian guidance system for ballistic missiles headed for Iraq Violated

sanctions

 

Nov 13 KDP and PUK restarted US brokered peace talks to end civil war but came to

            no agreement

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Dec 16 King Hussein offered to sponsor talks amongst Iraqi opposition parties

 

1996

Jan 18 Iraq agreed to talk about UN Resolution 986 that would create Oil For Food

            program

 

Jan 25 Member of Iraqi National Accord made recording of his operation in Iraq setting off bombs

Complained he didn’t have enough money and explosives Ops were funded by CIA

 

Feb 4 UK intel team arrived in Wash DC to get CIA equipment to tap into Iraqi

            communications to help UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Feb 18 Iyad Allawi held press conference in Jordan Said he would remove Saddam using the

            Iraqi armed forces

 

Feb 19 Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamil sent letter to Iraq asking about returning to

            country after defected to Jordan

 

Feb 20 Hussein Kamil and brother Saddam Kamil accepted pardon from Saddam

            and returned to Iraq

 

Feb 23 Hussein and Saddam Kamil killed by uncle Ali Hassan al-Majid and members of

tribe after talked into returning to Iraq

 

Feb 27 Iraq provided new declaration on missile program with more info to UN

            inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Mar 8 UN inspectors launched 1^st op to discover Iraq concealment program at govt construction

company Iraqis wouldn’t let them in Found nothing Op was meant to get reaction from Iraqis and study what they did to figure out how they were hiding things

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Mar 17 UN inspectors said work was moving forward and Iraq was not hiding WMD

            as some suggested

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Mar 20 UN and Iraq signed agreement to allow for Oil for Food program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Mar 26 Jordanian govt held party celebrating opening of Iraqi National Accord

new HQ in Amman

Mar 26 PUK backed peace deal with KDP although talks had not worked out

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Mar 27 UN Resolution 1051 set up monitoring system for Iraqi imports-exports

under Oil for Food program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Apr 6 At conference in New York UN inspectors deducted that Iraq had biological weapons facility

at Hakam, Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Apr 18 State Dept official Deutsch went to Kurdistan to try to broker ceasefire in

            PUK-KDP civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Apr 30 Turkey began bombing campaign along border against PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 12 Secretary of State Albright interviewed on 60 Minutes Was asked whether 500,000

            Iraqi children dying as a result of sanctions was worth it Albright said yes

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

May 17 Violent protests in Ramadi by Albu Nimr against Saddam after Air Force Gen Dulaimi

arrested for coup attempt Tortured to death and body dumped in Ramadi Started revolt that lasted 3 weeks

 

May 20 Iraq and UN signed memo allowing Oil for Food program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

May 29 PUK and KDP agreed to extend Kurdish parliament for another year hoping that

            assembly would help end civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jun 10 Inspectors arrived in Iraq CIA hoped to create a crisis that would allow US military strike on Iraq

that would support Iraqi National Accord coup attempt

 

Jun 11 Inspectors went to Special Republican Guard barracks in Abu Ghraib Baghdad and were

blocked Inspectors went to what they thought was HQ of Military Industrial Corporation Security but moved Trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program for hiding WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jun 12 Inspectors went to 3 Special Republican Guard bases and blocked at all of them Led to UN

Resolution 1060 that said Iraq not allowing inspectors full access to sites Inspectors were trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

Jun 12 UK intel report worried that Iraq still hiding parts of missile and WMD programs

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Jun 17 UN said Iraq smuggling oil through Iranian waters breaking sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Jun 19 UN and Iraq began talks on allowing UN inspectors access to sensitive sites Dep PM Aziz

told UN inspectors they got most of their intel from US and UK that were trying to remove Saddam Aziz told inspectors they made sensitive visits to provoke a crisis at behest of US and UK

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

Jun 19 CIA was hoping to cause a crisis between Iraq and UN inspectors to justify

military action against Saddam that would start coup CIA working with ex-Gen Shawani and his sons in Republican Guard

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Jun 19 Iraqi intelligence had captured an Iraqi operative involved in coup and rounded

            up everyone in plot

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Jun 21 UN and Iraq agreed on terms for allowing UN inspectors into Republican Guard Special

Republican Guard Special Security Organization Mukhabarat sites Inspectors were trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program for hiding WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jun 23 Iyad Allawi interviewed in WashPost saying Iraqi National Accord supported a

            military uprising in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Jun 24 CIA gave photos to inspectors of cars meeting in Baghdad along with radio intercepts that

appeared to show Iraq ordering WMD materials to be moved and hidden

 

Jun 26 Iraqi govt rounded up 120 coup plotters and executed most of them in failed plot by CIA

and Iraqi National Accord Iraqi intel had captured satellite phone from Iraqi National Accord agent in Iraq and uncovered CIA-INA plot Iraqi intelligence used captured phone to call CIA and told them to go home

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Jul 1 Richard Butler became head UN weapons inspector replacing Rolf Ekeus Butler

            was more confrontational with Iraqis

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security

 

Jul 5 KDP attacked PUK in Hrian

 

Jul 9 UN Security Council asked US for info about Iraq smuggling to get around

            sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Jul 16 Inspectors went to Special Republican Guard facility at Baghdad Airport Found nothing Were

trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jul 18 Inspectors returned to Special Republican Guard facility at Baghdad Airport Blocked again

after Iraq said it would allow entrance Was trying to discover concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jul 21 Inspectors allowed into Special Republican Guard facility blocked from entering before Turned

out to be Saddam’s personal bodyguard Trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jul 28 Iranian Revolutionary Guard entered Kurdistan to fight the Kurdistan Democratic Party of

Iran but also to support the PUK against the KDP Went 40 miles into Kurdistan and stayed 72 hours When withdrew left behind weapons for PUK

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)

(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)

 

Jul 30 CIA report head of Iraq intel met bin Laden in Sudan and provided bomb making

know how Was false Bin Laden left Sudan May 96 and no reports he returned afterward

 

Aug 8 UN agreed to plan for Oil For Food Program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Aug 17 PUK attacked KDP positions in Haj Umran near Iranian border State Dept tried to

mediate telling Barzani should talk with Talabani Barzani told State Dept Iran needed to back out of Kurdistan and without U.S. help he would turn to Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 19 PUK accused KDP of working with Baghdad KDP accused PUK of working with

            Iran during civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 20 PUK attacked KDP positions in Sulaymaniya with Iranian artillery and

            helicopter support

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 21 US Asst Sec of State for Nera Eastern Affairs Pelletraeu told Barzani to talk with Talabani

to try to stop fighting Barzani said US had to talk to Iran and stop it from interfering in Kurdistan

 

Aug 22 Barzani wrote Saddam asking for help to fight PUK and their Iranian

            backers in Irbil Tariq Aziz released letter

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

 

Aug 23 US ceasefire between KDP and PUK began Barzani said KDP captured or killed 400 PUK

Peshmerga Lasted less than 24 hrs

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 26 CIA said Saddam was going to launch attack upon PUK in Irbil

 

Aug 27 PUK attacked KDP in Kurdistan Forced KDP out of most of its territory PUK

            backed by Iran

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 28 US provided info to UN that Iraq smuggling oil in violation of sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Aug 28 PUK and KDP restarted US brokered peace talks to try to end civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

Aug 28 US warned Iraq not to attack Irbil Would do so 3 days alter

 

Aug 29 Iraqi National Accord discovered impending Iraqi attack on Kurdistan and KDP

            had made deal with Saddam

 

Aug 30 State Dept attempted to mediate ceasefire between KDP-PUK with talks in London KDP

denied that it had any deal with Baghdad while preparing to work with Saddam to attack PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Aug 31 KDP-PUK peace talks in London ended when 30,000 Republican Guards attacked PUK

Captured Irbil city to back KDP PUK gave orders to flee to hills to escape govt assault

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

Aug 31 INC camp in Qushtapa, Irbil captured by Iraqi forces 96 INC members killed

Aug 31 Iraq released Barzani’s letter to Saddam asking for help against PUK

Aug 31 Clinton said he was concerned about Iraqi attack on Irbil but US not ready to

            respond Defense Secretary Perry said US should not get involved in Kurdish civil war

 

Sep 1 KDP and Iraqi Republican Guard captured Irbil from PUK Iraqi and KDP intel

            rounded up opponents including PUK SCIRI INC members Executed 200

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

 

Sep 2 US began 2 days of cruise missile attacks on targets in Nasiriya in retaliation for Iraqi

forces helping KDP vs PUK and invading Irbil Attack not supported by France, Saudis or Gulf States

Sep 2 US extended southern no fly zone farther north France disagreed and wouldn’t take part

Sep 2 Iraqi army withdrew from most of Irbil after helping KDP against PUK

Sep 2 Barzani interviewed on BBC Said Saddam was president of Iraq KDP had not left

            Iraq If deal could be made with Baghdad it would happen

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 3 2^nd day of US cruise missile strikes on Iraq for Saddam helping KDP vs PUK and

            invading Irbil

Sep 3 Iraq retaliated against US cruise missile attack by firing at US UK and French

            planes patrolling northern No Fly Zone

Sep 3 Clinton announced northern no fly zone was being renewed

Sep 3 Iraqi forces withdrew from Irbil

 

Sep 4 US fired 17 more cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense sites in response to Saddam’s

            moves against PUK

 

Sep 5 KDP began attack on PUK in Sulaymaniya PUK had already fled to Iranian border after Iraqi

govt attack on Irbil

 

Sep 6 Report Baghdad was selling weapons to KDP in its conflict with the PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 7 Iraq submitted declaration on nuclear program Inspectors thought Iraq was hiding

            information

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

Sep 7 PUK said that Iraqi Republican Guard were about to attack Sulaymaniya

 

Sep 8 KDP objected to Turkey’s plan to create security zone in northern Kurdistan

            against PKK

 

Sep 9 KDP captured Sulaymaniya from PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 10 70,000-75,000 Kurds fled towards Iran to escape KDP-Iraqi offensive against PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 11 KDP took control of all of Kurdistan after pushing PUK out with help of

            Iraqi army

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 18 KDP attacked Kurdish displaced camp along Iranian border killing 11 wounding

            30 during campaign against PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 19 CIA Dir Deutch told Senate Intel Comm that after Saddam sent troops into

            Kurdistan he was in stronger position and unlikely to be deposed

 

Sep 26 KDP announced it was forming its own cabinet to run Kurdistan without PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 3 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that it hid part of its missile program and then

            secretly destroyed them in March 1992

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Oct 10 PUK attacked KDP along Iranian border

 

Oct 11 Inspector report to UN Secretary General said Iraq had not fully disclosed its

            WMD and missile programs

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Oct 13 PUK counterattacked Recaptured Sulaymaniya from KDP with Iranian support

            Baghdad made deal with Iran to allow PUK back into Kurdistan to counter KDP

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

 

Oct 15 UAE head Nahyan called on Arab countries to reconcile with Iraq and called for lifting of

sanctions

 

Oct 21 PUK backed by Iran recaptured most of territory it lost to KDP except Irbil city Saddam US

and Iran warned Talabani not to take city

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)

 

Oct 23 PUK and KDP signed ceasefire brokered by US, UK and Turkey

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 8 Report Baghdad was selling weapons to KDP in its conflict with the PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 15 US announced $11 mil in humanitarian aid delivered by UN to Kurdistan to help KDP-PUK

peace talks

 

Dec 3 Iran admitted to Iraq smuggling oil through its territory violating UN sanctions

            and promised action against it

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Dec 10 Oil for Food program started operating in Iraq Helped save Iraqi economy from

shortages and inflation Allowed Iraq to sell $2 bil in oil every six months Half the money went to the UN Kuwait Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Dec 12 Uday Hussein seriously injured in assassination attempt in Baghdad by Nahdah opposition

group Wasn’t released from hospital until June 97

 

Dec 13 Assassination plot against Saddam foiled Was planned by fmr Iraqi intel head in Syria using

            Iraqi soldiers

 

Dec 29 Dawa announced campaign to assassinate top Iraqi officials

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Lowy Institution’s Shanahan on history of the Dawa Party)

(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq)

 

1997

Jan 1 US and UK launch Operation Northern Watch to maintain no fly zone over

northern Iraq after France withdrew

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Jan 16 During peace talks PUK and KDP agreed to stop displacing rivals from towns and

            allow displaced to return home

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jan 26 Iraqi National Accord operative gave interview saying CIA behind bombing

            campaign in Iraq from 1994-95

 

Mar 23 Memo told Iraqi officials to hide material, documents, equipment from U.N.

            weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Mar 26 Secretary of State Albright said US disagreed with countries that wanted sanctions to end if

Iraq complied with inspections Said Iraq had to prove peaceful intentions and that wasn’t possible with Saddam

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Mar 28 Secretary of State Albright said Iraq had lied and blocked UN inspections Said

            inspections and sanctions had contained Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

Apr 30 Fighting broke out between PUK and Kurdish Islamic Movement

 

May 1 Turkey with support of KDP started new campaign against PKK in northern

            Kurdistan Claimed killed over 2000 PKK fighters KDP lost 200

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 13 Iraqi army clashed with Bani Said tribe in southern Iraq

 

May 14 Operation Hammer 50,000 Turkish troops invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK and support

KDP vs PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

May 19 KDP attacked PKK in Irbil with support of Turkey 53 KDP and 58 PKK killed

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

May 29 Head inspector Ekeus wrote Iraq Said new inspections would began to investigate

concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

May 30 Iraq asked for new inspections to be delayed or canceled Said investigating WMD

concealment program invalid Chief inspector Ekeus said inspections would proceed

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jun 1 PKK launched 1^st of 4 suicide bombings against KDP 55 KDP killed

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Jun 4 UN Resolution 1111 extended Oil For Food Program for 2^nd time since started in 1996

 

Jun 12 UN inspectors said Iraq had blocked them from 3 sites in last two days

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jun 13 UN complained about Iraq’s obstruction of weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jun 21 UN Resolution 1115 said Iraq had to fully cooperate with weapons

            inspectors and allow them into disputed sites

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

 

Jun 26 ABC news ran feature on Chalabi and INC Chalabi talked about his revolt plot in 1995 and

claimed CIA sabotaged it

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

Jun 26 Jim Hoagland OpEd in Wash Post wrote about how Chalabi’s revolt in 1995 was betrayed

by CIA Hoagland was Chalabi ally

 

Jul 7 Turkey withdrew its forces from Kurdistan after killing over 2,000 PKK fighters

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jul 9 KDP accused PUK of breaking ceasefire attacking its positions with help of PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

 

Jul 17 Saddam said if UN didn’t end sanctions inspections would end

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Aug 20 Iraq agreed to allow Iranian pilgrims to go to Najaf and Karbala as way to get

            around UN sanctions

 

Sep 3 UK intel report said Iraq was still hiding parts of its biological weapons program

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Sep 9 New inspector head Butler arrived in Baghdad Was more confrontational and worked closely

            with US

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Sep 12 UN Resolution 1129 allowed greater oil exports under Oil for Food Program

 

Sep 13 Iraqi soldier attacked a weapons inspector on board a helicopter for trying to take

pictures of vehicles leaving a suspected WMD site in Tikrit Inspectors let inside facility and found papers removed

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Sep 15 Inspectors obstructed during trip to Sarabadi Republican Guard base

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Sep 17 UN inspectors watched Iraqis moving files and burning documents while waiting

            for access to a WMD site

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Sep 22 Inspectors interviewed Special Republican Guard officers Admitted that they hid WMD

documents at start of inspections Blamed everything on Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamal

 

Sep 25 Op Dawn Turkey invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

Sep 25 UN inspectors went to Food and Drug Examination Lab in Baghdad Found 2 Iraqis trying to

leave with briefcases full of docs Were from State Sec Org Inspectors got briefcases Found docs on testing biological agent at Tikrit lab Finally provided link between State Sec Org and WMD

Sep 25 Inspectors held meeting with State Sec Org officials about docs found at Food and Drug

Examination Lab Iraqis denied everything Inspectors threatened night inspection that night to find out more

Sep 25 Inspectors attempted night inspection of Special Rep Guard facility in Baghdad Were

stopped Trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Sep 27 Inspectors went to Special Rep Guard Batt HQ Found nothing Then tried to go to another

Special Rep Guard facility but was blocked by Tariq Aziz who said it was a presidential site Were trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Sep 29 Inspectors tried to inspect another Special Republican Guard facility and was stopped Trying

to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Oct 1 Inspectors went to Special Security Org and Special Republican Guard facilities but found they

had just been turned into presidential offices Interviewed Special Sec Org officers about WMD docs found but wouldn’t cooperate Head inspector Butler ordered inspection of their offices

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Oct 2 Inspectors went to Special Sec Org office looking for more WMD docs Were blocked Led to

standoff before inspectors backed down

 

Oct 4 PUK accused Turkey of arming KDP in return for help against PKK

 

Oct 6 UN inspectors biannual report Some progress on chemical and missile programs but nothing with

biological weapons Iraqis banned inspections at presidential sites Weapons declarations were not complete

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Oct 6 IAEA provided last report on inspections Said if any information was left on Iraq’s

            nuclear program was a political decision

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Oct 8 IAEA report Iraq started centrifuge program in 1987 but was way behind schedule

            Iraq might have had a bomb by 1996 if not for Gulf War

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

Oct 8 UK said that Iraq smuggling oil through Iran violating UN sanctions

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

 

Oct 12 Tariq Aziz wrote letter to UN criticizing inspectors biannual report that said Iraq not cooperating

and the US and UK for interfering

 

Oct 13 Heavy fighting restarted between KDP and PUK during civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 14 Britain, Turkey, US asked for KDP to withdraw from PUK territory

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 15 Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr gave sermon saying No! Yes is just for

            God mocking Yes to Saddam slogan

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

Oct 15 Turkey’s Operation Dawn ended against PKK in Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 18 PUK and KDP agreed to US brokered ceasefire in civil war Clashes continued

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 23 UN Resolution 1134 said that Iraq had to fully comply with weapons inspectors

and condemned non-cooperation Were splits within UN security council over continued weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Oct 24 KDP launched offensive against PUK ending last ceasefire in civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Oct 28 Iraq National Assembly said inspections should be stopped until deadline given to end

sanctions Saddam said Iraq would cooperate with inspections if they respected Iraqi sovereignty

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Oct 29 Tariq Aziz sent letter to UN saying Iraq was ready to cooperate with inspectors but no

Americans would be allowed accusing them of being spies and trying to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Oct 29 IAEA suspended all its work in Iraq

Oct 29 Iraq sent letter to UN objecting to inspectors using U-2 planes for surveillance because they

were flown by Americans

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Oct 30 Tariq Aziz claimed surveillance planes used by inspectors were working for US

            intelligence Threatened to shoot them down

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

Oct 30 Iraq asked 10 American inspectors to leave country

 

Nov 2 UN inspectors landed at Habaniya Air Base and Iraq refused to allow American members off

the plane

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Nov 3 Iraq blocked UN inspection at Al-Karma State Establishment where missiles worked on

because team included Americans

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Nov 3 Iraq asked inspectors to suspend two days of U2 overflights claiming they were supplying

intel for planned US air strikes Threatened to shoot down planes

Nov 3 UN Sec Gen Annan wrote Saddam saying Iraq should cooperate with inspections and that UN

would be sending 3 envoys to end crisis

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Nov 5 Iraq began removing proscribed equipment so they couldn’t be seen by UN monitoring

cameras at facilities

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Nov 6 Iraq warned that U2s used by UN inspections might be shot down

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Nov 7 Iraq announced new deal with UN over inspections

 

Nov 10 Iraq said it would not allow any US planes to be used for weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

Nov 10 KDP attacked PUK with backing of Turkey

 

Nov 12 UN Resolution 1137 demanded Iraq allow full and unhindered weapons

            inspections Imposed travel restrictions on Iraqi officials

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

Nov 12 Iraq expelled 6 US weapons inspectors claiming they were spies Almost entire

            inspection staff withdrawn as a result

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Nov 12 Wall St Journal OpED by David Wurmser called for US supporting INC and

            revolt in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Nov 14 Clinton said by expelling UN inspectors Iraq would have sanctions until the “end of time”

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Nov 18 Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with Iraqis trying to convince them to

            cooperate with weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Nov 19 KDP recaptured lost territory from PUK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

Nov 19 UN told that dramatic increase in Iraqi oil smuggling through Iran violating UN sanctions

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Nov 19 Wash Post OpEd by Wolfowitz and Khalilzad called for US to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

Nov 19 Inspectors presented to UN Sec Council unresolved issues with Iraq and to highlight its

continued non-cooperation Outstanding issues were SCUD missile fuel, VX gas and biological weapons program

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Nov 20 Russia brokered deal to allow US members of UN inspectors back into Iraq In return

inspections would be completed quickly and UN would begin talks over ending sanctions

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Nov 21 UN Special Commission on Iraq weapons inspections met to resolve crisis between Baghdad

and inspectors Russia argued Iraq largely disarmed and that complaints of obstruction were unfounded

Nov 21 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq US and UK threatened military strike if Iraq didn’t

cooperate

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Nov 22 UN inspectors talked out of visit to Special Republican Guard base by US that did

            not want another confrontation that would allow Saddam to blame inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Nov 23 Clinton said UN sanctions would stay until Saddam removed from power

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

Nov 24 New PUK-KDP ceasefire announced negotiated by US and UK

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 25 KDP broke ceasefire after 1 day by attacking PUK positions

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Nov 28 Iraq said inspectors could not go to presidential and sovereign sites

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

Dec 1 Weekly Standard special issue on removing Saddam featuring neoconservative writers like

Wolfowitz Khalilzad Kagan

(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)

(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq)

 

Dec 4 UN Resolution 1143 extended Oil for Food Program for 3^rd time

 

Dec 14 UN inspectors began talks with Iraq’s Foreign Min Aziz about inspections Aziz said there

were different categories of sites some of which were sensitive and off limits Inspections were supposed to be allowed into all areas

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Dec 16 Dep chief inspector Duelfer told US preparing military strike on Iraq if didn’t comply with

inspections

 

Dec 17 Iraq banned UN weapons inspectors from presidential and sovereign sites

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

1998

Jan 12 1^st day new UN inspections went to General Security HQ Were blocked Went Abu Ghraib

prisonlooking for docs on WMD tests on prisoners from 1994-95 Found nothing

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jan 13 Iraqis objected to UN inspectors having too many Americans and British and

            refused cooperation until team changed

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jan 15 After Iraq refused to cooperate again UN inspection team left Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jan 17 Anniversary of Gulf War Saddam said Iraq met all obligations of UN Res 687

            Threatened to raise 1 mil for jihad against UN if sanctions not lifted in 6 months

 

Jan 19 Head UN inspector Butler met with Iraq Foreign Min Aziz who said Iraq wouldn’t cooperate

with inspections anymore if sanctions weren’t lifted Said Iraq willing to suffer consequences including war

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jan 25 Report US was preparing strike against Iraq called Operation Desert Thunder for

non cooperation with UN inspectors US was hoping to cause a confrontation with inspectors to attack Iraq

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Jan 26 Project for New American Century sent letter to Clinton demanding US

overthrow Saddam 11 of 18 that signed letter would later join Bush administration in 2001

(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

Jan 26 Chief weapons inspector Butler confirms that Iraq had biological weapons in missile

warheads

 

Jan 27 Head UN inspector Butler quoted in NY Times saying Iraq had enough biological

weapons and missiles to “blow away” Tel Aviv UN chief Annan demanded Butler apologize for NY Times interview which he did

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Jan 28 UK discussed using force against Iraq to ensure continued UN weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

 

Feb 1 UN Secretary Gen Annan sent report to Security Council recommending doubling the Oil for

Food program Said humanitarian mission should be separate from Iraq’s non-cooperation with weapons inspectors

 

Feb 2 Israel begins public relations campaign to allay public over Iraq Israel Defense Force chief of

staff said Israel would deter Iraq from attacking

 

Feb 3 Report Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri met Iraq’s Vice President in Baghdad to talk about setting up

            camps Another story said Iraq gave Zawahiri $300,000 False story

 

Feb 4 UK intel report said UN inspectors had destroyed majority of Iraq’s WMD programs

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

Feb 4 Blair govt talked about how dangerous Saddam was due to his WMD capabilities

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Feb 7 Former Bush National Security Adviser Scowcroft said he wished the 91 uprising

            never happened because he wanted a military coup to remove Saddam

Feb 7 Clinton said any military strike on Iraq would not be to depose him but to degrade his

            missile and WMD programs

 

Feb 10 Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultant said Saudis would not allow air strikes

            against Iraq as US Def Sec Cohen was about to visit

Feb 10 UK Foreign Sec Cook told parliament Iraq still had stocks of WMD May still be hiding

missiles as well

 

Feb 13 UN chief Annan said he had a personal initiative to end inspector crisis with

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

Feb 13 Saudis refused to allow its territory to be used by US for air strikes vs Iraq as

            tensions raised over inspectors

 

Feb 17 Clinton told Pentagon US had to stop Iraq from getting WMD and nuclear

            weapons and Baghdad had to allow unfettered UN inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Feb 18 Town meeting at Ohio State Univ Sec Def Cohen and Sec State Albright said US was not

trying to overthrow Saddam or destroy Iraq Wanted to contain him

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Feb 19 Blair said UN weapons inspections had to continue or action taken against Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

Feb 19 Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf published letter to Clinton saying

            US should overthrow Saddam and support INC

Feb 19 Richard Perle moderated meeting at American Enterprise Institute on Iraq featured Ahmed

Chalabi Wolfowitz fmr Rep Stephen Solarz

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

Feb 19 Richard Perle had Ahmed Chalabi address House Republican Policy Committee Chalabi said

Saddam was coup proof and only a revolt led by INC could unseat him but was sabotaged by CIA 1 of attendees staffer Rademaker drafted Iraq Liberation Act after meeting

Feb 19 Report Al Qaeda operative was to travel to Iraq to talks with govt False story

 

Feb 20 UN report said Iraq’s electricity situation was in dire straights Grid never rebuilt after Gulf

War due to sanctions

Feb 20 UN Res 1153 increased Iraq’s exports from $2 bil in oil each 6 months to $5.2 bil

            and expanded imports from food and medicine to infrastructure needs

 

Feb 22 UN Sec Gen Annan met with Saddam to try to restart UN weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

Feb 22 Newsweek poll showed US support for military action against Iraq dropped from

            40 to 18% Clinton admin was threatening attack over UN inspections

 

Feb 23 UN Sec Gen Anan signed memo of understanding with inspections Said would allow one

time inspection of presidential sites Afterward Foreign Sec Aziz sent letter to UN attempting to change the terms of the deal

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Feb 23 Bin Laden issued fatwa against US sanctions on Iraq and calling for attacks

            against it

 

Feb 26 UN Secretary Gen Annan rejected Foreign Min Aziz’s letter asking to change terms of

new agreement for weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

Feb 26 Dep chief inspector Duelfer and Ritter briefed White House on new plan for inspections that

would include Def Min

Feb 26 Clinton Adm told Chief UN inspector Butler US planned air strike on Iraq in Mar if didn’t

cooperate with inspectors

 

Mar 1 UN inspectors revealed progress of their work with CNN violating agreement with

            Iraq on inspection regime

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

Mar 1 Pres Clinton called Saddam was a predator who the US would not allow to have

            WMD

 

Mar 2 UN Resolution 1154 allowed weapons inspectors at Iraq’s presidential palaces US

            was hoping to cause a confrontation to strike Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

Mar 2 Jesse Helm advisor Danielle Pletka organized Senate hearing on overthrowing Saddam

Chalabi testified Said he represented Iraq people Said CIA couldn’t determine leadership of Iraq only Iraqis could Claimed he had following inside Iraq Pushed INC revolt plan to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Mar 5 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq and carried out successful searches Wanted to

breakdown Iraq’s deception campaign

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Mar 5 UN inspector Ritter installed device that allowed NSA to monitor Iraq’s military and

            security communications to uncover WMD concealment program

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

Mar 5 Report Al Qaeda operative arrived in Baghdad for talks False story

Mar 5 Jim Hoagland OpEd in Wash Post said many Republicans would support Ahmed Chalabi

            and INC simply to attack Clinton

 

Mar 6 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and Special Security Directorate sites

Inspectors were stopped at one site while vehicles exited with docs Inspectors were then allowed in and found nothing Trying to discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Mar 7 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and Special Security Directorate

NSA intercepted Saddam’s secretary Mahmoud telling Special Security Directorate to delay inspection at one site so documents could be removed Destroyed at another Info given to inspectors US was hoping to cause confrontation to strike Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

 

 

Mar 8 UN inspectors went to old and new Defense Ministry buildings and found nothing Iraqis

told UN inspectors they knew Clinton admin wanted to provoke a confrontation to strike Iraq Also went to Military Industrial Comm Sec HQ but building was converted to Agriculture Min

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Mar 9 Iraq said it arrested scientist Nasser al-Hindawi known as father of Iraq’s biological weapons

Was meant to deny UN access to him

Mar 9 UN agreed to allow diplomats to be with inspectors as concession to Iraq

 

Mar 19 Ahmed Chalabi and King Hussein sent letter to Clinton saying Saddam should be

overthrown

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Mar 23 UK issued terrorist alert on intel that Iraq trying to smuggle anthrax into country

 

Mar 24 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair that sanctions were killing kids in Iraq

 

Mar 25 UN Resolution 1158 extended Oil For Food Program for another 90 days

 

Mar 26 UN inspectors went to presidential palace and found nothing

 

Mar 27 UN inspectors went to 8 presidential sites Iraq allowed entry to Were all sanitized and

nothing there Iraq then said inspectors couldn’t come back

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Mar 28 UN Resolution 1154 okayed agreement between UN Secretary General and Iraq to

            allow inspectors into presidential palaces and other sites

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Apr 7 IAEA told UN Iraq not carrying out any prohibited nuclear activities at sites it

            had visited

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Apr 13 IAEA report to UN Iraq provided full and complete record of its nuclear program

            and showed no new activity

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Apr 16 UN inspectors biannual report Said Iraq failed to comply with inspections and no progress

made which appeared to be Iraq’s goal

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Apr 22 Foreign Min Aziz letter to UN Said inspectors ignored last 7 yrs of progress Said intrusive

            inspections work of US to create justification for US military strike

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Apr 25 Was story that bin Laden sent delegation to Iraq for Saddam’s birthday and

            Uday agreed to train Al Qaeda Report false

 

Apr 27 UN lifted travel restrictions on Iraqi officials after progress on inspections

 

Apr 28 Inspectors report to UN said no progress in last 4 months due to confrontation with

            Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

May 6 100 US peace activists led by former Attn Gen Ramsey Clark arrived in Iraq with

            $4 mil in medicine to protest sanctions

 

May 8 Inspectors told Iraq was going to investigate Special Security Organization (SSO) and role in

hiding WMD programs unless info provided Iraq didn’t Led Chief Inspector Ekeus to okay new inspections of SSO

 

Jun 3 Inspector report to UN Iraq not accounted for missiles warheads VX amounts of

ingredients and final products made from them Russia France China refused to approve the report

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jun 13 UN inspectors met with Iraqi delegation led by Tariq Aziz

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Jun 14 2^nd day of meetings between Un inspectors and Iraq Agreed on inspection regime

UN inspectors demanded that Iraq come clean on its concealment program which angered Aziz He thought UN inspectors working with US to move goal posts every time there was progress to drag out process

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Jun 18 Inspectors report to UN Said Iraq not come clean on VX program 1^st denied it

worked with it Then said produced experimental amount that was destroyed Iraq later admitted it produced 1.7 tons of VX but didn’t weaponize it

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jun 19 UN Resolution 1175 increased oil exports to $5.3 bil Allowed importation of equipment to

            maintain oil industry for Oil for Food program

Jun 19 Ayatollah Ali Gharavi and his son and son in law were gunned down in Najaf by govt

Saddam blamed foreign agents

 

Jun 23 Jim Hoagland OpEd in Wash Post said Iraq lying about its WMD to UN inspectors Said Iraq

put VX in warheads but denied it Was based upon inspector report by Scott Ritter that he gave to Ahmed Chalabi who gave it to Hoagland Hoagland was a Chalabi ally Ritter’s report was false Convinced Iraq US would make up stories about WMD to maintain sanctions and therefore Iraq should stop cooperating with inspections

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

Jun 23 Iraqis later told dep head UN inspectors Duelfer that Hoagland Wash Post OpEd was turning

point Thought story was planted by Clinton admin to spread disinformation about Iraq and maintain sanctions

 

Jun 24 Chief UN inspector Butler briefed Security Council Said Iraq had put anthrax into missile

warheads Iraq said that was a lie

Jun 24 Iraq Dep Prime Minister Aziz said if US maintained sanctions there might be another crisis

 

Jul 4 IAEA report to UN Iraq did not have nuclear weapons Iraqi scientists had not given

            complete access IAEA would focus upon long term monitoring

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Jul 18 UN inspectors went to Iraq Air Force HQ Found document showing Iraqis used mustard gas

tabun sarin gas gangrene during Iran-Iraq War in larger quantities than they said Meant there could be tons of WMD left Iraqis refused to let inspectors keep the document

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Jul 20 US asked PUK and KDP to meet in Washington for peace talks over civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jul 30 Iraq declaration demanded that sanctions be lifted and complained about inspections

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Aug 3 Tariq Aziz met UN inspectors Complained they were focusing upon minor issues

not important to disarmament Said dragging out process at behest of US Demanded that Iraq be certified WMD free and inspections end Aziz said Iraq had nothing else to declare about its weapons programs Chief UN inspector Butler said Iraq had not provided evidence to prove claim it had declared all of its weapons programs

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Aug 4 Saddam ended cooperation with UN inspectors Kept monitoring system in tact Demanded

inspectors reflect rotating membership of Security Council and offices be moved to Geneva or Vienna and out of NY to not be influenced by US

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Aug 8 Dep head of UN inspectors Butler called off planned inspections and told teams to leave Iraq

after Iraq said it was ending cooperation

 

Aug 9 Iraq told UN it was suspending cooperation with inspections Demanded new inspection team

made up of members of the Security Council

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Aug 14 Iraq found violating UN sanctions by smuggling oil

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Aug 14 Washington Post report UN chief Butler had followed US instructions to hold back on

            inspections because Clinton admin didn’t want confrontations with Saddam

 

Aug 24 US intelligence claimed Iraq was involved in Al Qaeda chemical plant Clinton

administration bombed in Sudan Cited phone calls to head of Iraq’s chemical weapons program

 

Aug 26 UN inspector Ritter quit after his anti-concealment unit was disbanded at request of Clinton

admin Ritter claimed from Nov 97-Aug 98 Clinton admin tried to block inspectors work 7 times Ritter’s claims about Clinton convinced many on UN Security Council US manipulating inspectors for its own aims Said Iraq lied about its WMD from start and still had stockpiles

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

 

Sep 3 Fmr UN inspector Ritter told Senate Wash Post OpEd that said Clinton admin had stopped

inspections and Iraq still had WMD got Clinton Admin to support inspections again Ritter helped get OpEd publish by leaking info

 

Sep 8 KDP and PUK announced new power sharing agreement

 

Sep 9 UN Resolution 1194 condemned Iraq’s halting of cooperation with weapons

            inspectors

Sep 9 PUK sent delegation to Turkey to try to improve relations Ankara backed KDP in

            civil war

 

Sep 16 Wolfowitz testified to House Committee that US should help Iraqis overthrow Saddam

 

Sep 17 Italian paper claimed Iraq offered bin Laden safe haven if he was expelled from

            Afghanistan False story

Sep 17 Talabani and Barzani met in Washington to announce power sharing deal in

            Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Sep 20 UK intel report said Iraq probably still had biological weapons program

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Sep 29 Iraq Liberation Act introduced into Congress Staffer who drafted act said he wrote it for the

INC

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

 

Oct 5 UN Secretary Gen Annan made two phased proposal for future inspections and sanctions Said

Iraq should be determined whether threat to region or not instead of whether disarmed Wanted date set to end sanctions

 

Oct 6 Inspectors report to UN Iraq had blocked disarmament and was now attempting to block

            monitoring work

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Oct 7 US Congress passed Iraq Liberation Act saying policy was to remove Saddam Opened

up money to Iraq opposition

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq short history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

Oct 7 Ex-Gen Downing and ex-CIA officer Clarridge drew up plan for Iraqi opposition

trained by Special Forces to seize territory in western and southern Iraq When Saddam attacked Iraqi opposition would lead to U.S. intervention and overthrow of govt

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Oct 31 Iraq suspended all cooperation with UN weapons inspectors Demanded full review of its

disarmament and timetable for ending sanctions Led Clinton to order military build up in Gulf

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Oct 31 Pres Clinton signed Iraq Liberation Act opening up $97 mil for opposition parties

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

 

Nov 4 NSC counterterrorism director Clarke sent memo to National Security Adviser Berger saying

Iraq WMD experts were at Sudan factory probably working with Al Qaeda

Nov 4 NY indictment claimed Al Qaeda-Iraq had agreement not to work vs Saddam and to cooperate

on weapons Was based on intel that Al Qaeda and Iraq were working on weapons together in Sudan Charges on Al Qaeda-Iraq cooperation were later dropped in indictment

 

Nov 5 UN Resolution 1205 condemned Iraq suspending work with weapons inspectors

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Nov 6 Clinton admin sent letter to Congress saying US would support Kurds as long as

            they remained united

 

Nov 10 All UN weapons inspectors left Iraq after Baghdad refused to cooperate anymore

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

 

Nov 11 UN Secretary Gen Annan appealed to Saddam to work with weapons inspectors again

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Nov 11 US began deploying military to Persian Gulf Clinton said US had to act forcefully to end

Iraq’s non cooperation with UN inspectors

 

Nov 12 Iraq Ambassador to UN told military strike impending if did not agree to work

            with weapons inspectors again

 

Nov 13 Tariq Aziz told CNN UN inspectors spying for US and Israel

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

Nov 13 UN chief Annan sent letter to Saddam saying he had to cooperate with inspectors

to avoid a US-UK military strike Annan told Saddam that if cooperated with inspectors Security Council would discuss Iraq’s disarmament to move towards ending sanctions

Nov 13 Countries told Iraq that if it didn’t back down on inspectors it would be hit by

            US within 24 hours

Nov 13 Iraq sent letter to UN blaming US for blocking review of Iraq’s disarmament Said

            because of UN chief Annan it would cooperate with inspectors again

Nov 13 Tariq Aziz went on CNN to say that Iraq would let inspectors return US B-52

            bombers were only about an hour away from bombing Iraq Clinton recalled them

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Nov 14 Iraq said it would work with inspectors again Said comprehensive review of its WMD could

be accomplished quickly so that sanctions could be lifted

Nov 14 Clinton outlined 5 conditions Iraq had to meet with UN Included unconditional access by

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Nov 15 UN accepted Iraq’s letter asking inspectors back

Nov 15 Natl Sec Adv Berger met with head UN inspector Butler on inspection schedule Berger said

Clinton admin would bomb Iraq if didn’t cooperate

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

Nov 15 Clinton ordered and then cancelled missile strike on Iraq after Baghdad agreed to work with

            UN inspectors again

Nov 15 Clinton said he would implement Iraq Liberation Act over frustration with Iraq’s dealings

with inspectors

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

 

Nov 17 UN inspectors returned to Iraq after latest showdown Head inspector Butler wrote Foreign

Min Aziz about issues that needed to be resolved for inspections to end

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Nov 18 UN inspections began again in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

 

Nov 19 Iraqis refused to hand over documents to UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Nov 20 UN inspectors asked Iraq for 12 documents Included June 1993 report by committee on

WMD Investigation into Hussein Kamil’s concealment of WMD Review of Iraqi air forces use of chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War Iraq said committee didn’t exist Never reviewed Kamil’s activities Would only give edited version of air force paper

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

 

Nov 21 Adviser to UN chief said could never 100% prove WMD disarmament and at some

            point inspections became political and impossible to prove negative

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Nov 22 Izzat al-Dhuri Saddam’s #2 escaped assassination attempt in Karbala

 

Nov 23 Hosni Mubarak said US-UK attempts to overthrow Saddam would fail and regime change

could only come from Iraqi people

 

Nov 24 UN Resolution 1210 renewed Oil for Food program for another 6 months

 

Dec 4 Iraq blocked biological weapons inspection

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Dec 4 Under pressure from Russia France China UN inspectors began weekly reports They wanted

inspections done by end of year

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

 

Dec 5 Iraq stopped second inspection but allowed another even though blocked some of its work

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Dec 8 Inspectors went to Defense Min in Baghdad Were initially blocked but then allowed in and

found nothing Clinton admin hoped this would lead to a crisis to justify military strike over Iraq’s intransigence over inspections

 

Dec 9 Iraq blocked 3^rd inspection This one at Baath Party office believed to be hiding missile

materials

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Dec 11 Chief UN inspector Butler met with Natl Sec Adv Berger Said US would strike Iraq

Clinton wanted to send message to Saddam over inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

 

Dec 12 UN inspections were called off due to Iraq non-cooperation

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Dec 13 Head UN inspector Butler went over draft of his report to UN with White House so

            that it could be revised Clinton wanted report harsher on Iraq

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

Dec 13 Clinton went over strike plans for Operation Desert Fox with Natl Sec Adv Berger

(Musings On Iraq How Operation Desert Fox Finished Off Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

 

Dec 14 UN chief Annan said once Security Council decided Iraq had met its disarmament

obligations sanctions would end

Dec 14 WashPost report US went over multiple drafts with head UN inspector Butler

            before he submitted report to Security Council

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Dec 15 US told chief UN inspector Butler to remove his team from Iraq before imminent US strike

Dec 15 UN inspector chief report to Security Council said Iraq not cooperating again Was released

to press before UN members got their copies

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

Dec 15 White House told Congressional leaders that a military strike was being planned against Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Dec 15 Clinton told PM Netanyahu that inspection report would be bad and US would bomb Iraq

            as a result

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

Dec 15 Clinton approved strike on Iraq Told PM Blair UK had to prepare

 

Dec 16 UN inspectors left Iraq again over non-cooperation

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

Dec 16 US and UK started Operation Desert Fox after Iraq broke off cooperation with UN weapons

inspectors Considered failure at time Hit empty buildings Actually ended Iraq’s plans to revive WMD programs

(Musings On Iraq How Operation Desert Fox Finished Off Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

Dec 16 Assessment by International Atomic Energy Agency Iraq had not produced a nuclear bomb

before Gulf War Iraq only produced a few grams of weapons grade nuclear material before Gulf War Iraq didn’t have capability to produce nuclear material because of inspections

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

 

Dec 18 Pres Clinton said he changed US Iraq policy from containment to regime change but

maintained old containment strategy

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Dec 19 Operation Desert Fox by Pres Clinton to punish Iraq for ending cooperation with UN

weapons inspectors ended Iraq gave up rebuilding its WMD programs as a result

(Musings On Iraq How Operation Desert Fox Finished Off Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

Dec 19 Russia withdrew amb to US over Op Desert Fox

 

Dec 21 Russia France Germany called for ending sanctions on Iraq

Dec 21 Report Iraq intel officer Hijazi met with bin Laden in Afghanistan and offered him asylum

False story

 

Dec 22 US said it would use its veto at UN to block ending sanctions on Iraq China Russia France

all wanted them to end

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)

 

Dec 23 Russia and China called for Chief UN inspector Butler to be removed for working with US

 

Dec 26 Iraq said no fly zones were illegal and would oppose them

 

Dec 28 Italian paper claimed Saddam and bin Laden made pact to act against US and Iraq offered

Saddam safe haven False story

Dec 28 US began attacks upon Iraqi air defense system in north

 

1999

Jan 1 French paper claimed in 1998 bin Laden talked about safe haven in Iraq

 

Jan 4 Iraqi opposition claimed Baghdad executed 100 dissidents in Nov 1998 who

            were arrested during 91 uprising

 

Jan 5 UN weapons inspector report said Iraq had not accounted for 550 mustard gas

artillery rounds These unaccounted for stocks would become a major argument by the Bush White House that Iraq was hiding its WMD

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

 

Jan 8 Kurdish parties met to discuss how to implement peace plan in civil war

(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

 

Jan 9 Iraq’s parliament said Iraq-Kuwait border was illegal and savage and called for reparations from

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for hosting air strikes on Iraq

Jan 9 Saudi Arabia said Saddam had killed and tortured 1000s and called for Iraqi people to rise up

and overthrow him

 

Jan 11 Newsweek report Iraq and Al Qaeda had meetings

 

Jan 13 State Dept Iraq expert Riccardione warned against arming Iraqi opposition because too

divided

 

Jan 14 ABC reported on Dec 98 meeting with Iraqi intelligence officer and bin Laden False story

Jan 14 Tariq Aziz questioned legitimacy of Iraq-Kuwait border Was condemned by UN

 

Jan 19 US designated Iraqi opposition groups eligible for money under Iraq Liberation Act Were

Iraqi National Congress Iraqi National Accord KDP UK ISCI Movement for Constitutional Monarchy KDP ISCI and Constitutional Monarchy condemned act and refused to accept US money

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

 

Jan 21 SCIRI rejected any U.S. aid

 

Jan 23 NSC counterterrorism director Clarke said US was right to bomb factory in Sudan

            because connected to Al Qaeda and Iraq WMD experts

 

Jan 24 US leaked story to Sunday Times that it would back small groups of Iraqis to infiltrate into

Iraq and carry out sabotage in the hopes of starting a revolt

 

Jan 28 Clinton’s National Security Adviser Berger wrote Wash Post OpEd saying that

sanctions and Oil for Food program were positives Without them Saddam could spend his money the way he wanted Oil for Food made govt spend its money on its people

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Jan 31 Soviet paper claimed hundreds of Afghan Arabs were being trained in terrorism

            in south Iraq to fight US

 

Feb 1 NY Post claimed Saddam was making contacts with bin Laden and Abu Nidal to

            strike US False story

 

Feb 3 Qatar Oman UAE told US that outside interference in Iraq wouldn’t help anyone

 

Feb 6 Guardian reported that Dec 98 Iraqis met with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan Claimed Iraq

            offered bin Laden asylum False story

 

Feb 15 ISCI criticized Sadrists for suggesting that Shiite opposition could operate without Iran’s

backing

 

Feb 18 Former CIA counterterrorism officer Cannistraro said Iraqis met bin Laden in

            Dec 98 False story

 

Feb 18 Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr assassinated by Saddam

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Amatzia Baram on the legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

Feb 18 Former CIA counterterrorism officer Cannistraro said Iraqis met bin Laden in

            Dec 98

 

Feb 19 Followers of Ayatollah Sadr met in Saddam City after his assassination by govt Fired upon

by army 80 killed Led to more protests Sadrists took over Nasiriya

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Amatzia Baram on the legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Feb 20 Supreme Council accused govt of killing Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Feb 21 Govt killed 20 protesting assassination of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr by Saddam and arrested

            250 across Iraq In total 3,000 followers would be arrested 450 executed

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Feb 22 SCIRI UK Rep Bayati said overthrowing Saddam should be done by Iraqis without

            outside interference

 

Feb 23 State Dept denied that US was using UN inspectors to spy on Iraq but it was

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Feb 26 UK Foreign Min Farchett said Iraqi opposition should not be armed because too divided

 

Feb 28 General uprising in southern Iraq planned following Saddam’s killing of Ayatollah Sadiq al-

Sadr

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Mar 2 Wash Post reported that US intelligence was using UN inspectors to spy on Iraq something

it denied in Feb

(Musings On Iraq US Used 90s UN Weapons Inspectors To Spy On Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

 

Mar 3 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN sanctions by smuggling oil

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

Mar 3 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in Karbala in revenge for

            murder of Ayatollah Sadr

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Mar 9 Fighting between Iraqi forces and SCIRI’s Badr Brigade in 2 southern provinces

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

 

Mar 12 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Zinni said Iraqi opposition incompetent Opposed arming them

 

Mar 17 Uprising in Basra after Saddam killed Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr

(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

 

Mar 21 Govt executed 180 people after Sadrist uprising in Basra

 

Mar 23 Govt executed 56 people after Sadrist uprising in Basra

 

Apr 13 CIA had four reports that Iraq offered safe haven to bin Laden Were all false

 

Apr 24 Were clashes between Iraqi forces and Iraqi opposition in south

 

May 19 Clinton admin sent letter to Congress saying US would support Kurds as long as

            they remained united

 

May 21 UN Resolution 1242 renewed Oil For Food Program for 6 months

 

May 24 Secretary of State Albright met with 7 Iraqi opposition groups receiving US funds Said US

            would provide them nonlethal aid

 

May 25 Clinton National Security Adviser Berger met with 7 Iraqi opposition parties

receiving US funds Told them president wanted Saddam removed by end of his term

 

Aug 6 Jim Hoagland in WashPost reported Clinton National Security Adviser Berger told

            Iraqi opposition president wanted Saddam removed by end of his term

 

Oct 4 UN Resolution 1266 allowed Iraq to export $3.04 bil in oil under Oil for Food Program

 

Oct 31 INC held meeting in New York paid for by US Elected 7 member executive committee with

Chalabi and one member each from Iraqi National Accord KDP PUK and Monarchy Movement

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

 

Nov 1 INC meeting in New York City SCIRI refused to attend because thought it was just for

publiclity

 

Nov 19 UN Resolution 1275 extended Oil for Food program for Iraq

 

Nov 26 Baath paper said Iraq couldn’t accept sanctions and spies at same time but sanctions

easier to accept then spies and crises they created to prolong sanctions “Spies” was referring to UN inspectors 

Nov 26 Sec State Albright said No Fly Zones were about containing Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

 

Dec 3 UN Resolution 1280 extended Oil for Food program

 

Dec 10 UN Resolution 1281 extended Oil for Food Program for Iraq

 

Dec 17 UN Resolution 1284 created UNMOVIC as new Iraq WMD inspection regime Got rid of

export oil quotas and eased import restrictions under Oil for Food Program