1961 After Gen Qasim rejected Barzani Kurdish rights plan he
called for revolt
against
govt
1961 Kurds ambushed an Iraqi army column starting Kurdish
revolt against Gen Qasim
govt
1980 Iraq sent protest letter to Iran about border incidents
Said Iran violated intl law
and Iraq
would defend itself
1982 Iraq agreed to Arab League ceasefire proposal including
withdrawing from
Iran $70
bil in reparations Iran said no
1985 Iran seized western Majnoon Islands Iraq
counterattacked but failed
to dislodge
Iranians Did stop advance
1990 Iraq released edited version of Saddam’s meeting with
US Amb Glaspie Saddam told Amb
Glaspie Iraq would take military
action vs Kuwait if it didn’t give into Iraq’s Demands
1995 KDP took control of all of Kurdistan after pushing PUK
out with help of
Iraqi army
2001 Bush asked whether Iraq was involved in 9/11 because
Saddam backed
Palestinian
terrorists
2001 Bush said that US should get rid of Saddam and told
some aides to look into
Iraq-Al
Qaeda connections
2001 Rice told UK Amb to US Meyer that White House was
looking into whether Iraq
involved in
9/11
2001 5 hrs after 9/11 Def Sec Rumsfeld wrote memo asking for
info on whether
should
attack Saddam and Iraq
2001 At NSC meeting Rumsfeld brought up bombing Iraq
2001 Counterterrorism chief Clarke said Rumsfeld and
Wolfowitz were taking
advantage
of 9/11 to push their Iraq agenda
2001 Italian intelligence told CIA that Iraq had tried to
buy uranium from Niger
2002 UK intel report that Iraq was producing WMD 7 days a
week in facilities
throughout
the country
2002 Blair said parliament had to discuss Iraq and WMD
2002 NSC got okay from CIA to use claim that Iraq tried to
buy uranium from
Niger in
speech by Bush but wasn’t used
2002 UK Intel report warned overthrow of Saddam would
increase chances of WMD
falling
into hands of terrorists & terrorism overall
2002 Blair told Parliament war with Iraq would increase
terrorism threat but Saddam
giving WMD
to terrorists was larger concern
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Saddam connected to terrorism
& Al Qaeda and bin
Laden now
trying to work with ex-Baathists
2003 Report Pentagon made no detailed plans for postwar Iraq
Hoped Chalabi and INC
would take
over govt
2006 Bush speech US being tested like Cold War and
withdrawing from Iraq would
be
catastrophe US strategy at time was to withdraw from Iraq
2008 US turned over security for Anbar to Iraqi forces
2015 Kataib Hezbollah said no Hashd or lovers of Islam
should join protests Claimed
they were
being controlled by US
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