This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 15

1990 Iraqi opposition in Iran claimed they could field 50,000 to fight Saddam

1990 Iraq offered to fully implement UN Res 598 and Algiers Agreement to try to win

            favor with Iran after Kuwait invasion

1991 UN Resolution 706 proposed Iraq import petroleum products to alleviate

            humanitarian situation caused by sanctions Iraq rejected plan

1991 UN Resolution 707 said Iraq was in flagrant violation of weapons inspectors 

1995 Supreme Council denounced Jordan taking in Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein

Kamal as a murderer

2001 Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood said that British forces could be sued if not

            given legal basis for going to war with Iraq

2002 1st Bush NatlSecAdv Scowcroft wrote Wall St Journal OpEd saying Saddam not

            threat to US and not connected to 9/11

2002 NatlSecAdv Rice said US needed to launch pre-emptive strike against Iraq

            before it got too strong

2002 Pentagon office briefed CIA on its findings that Iraq and Al Qaeda had cooperated for years

2003 White House objected to CPA’s request for $20.3 bil after administration

            said it would not ask Congress for any more money

2003 Oil pipeline to Turkey bombed in Baiji Salahaddin shutting down exports for 2^nd

            time in a week

2004 Peace talks between Allawi govt & Sadr broke down over ending 2^nd Battle of Najaf

2005 One week extension given to Constitutional committee to finish work

2011 ISI attacked Sahwa in mosque in Yusifiya during Ramadan & bomb St Ephraim

            Syriac Orthodox church in Kirkuk

2015 Chief Justice Medhat said that judiciary supported Abadi’s reforms but made no changes

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