MUSINGS ON IRAQ: This Day In Iraqi History

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

1961 Gen Qasim ordered airstrikes to put down Mustafa Barzani Kurdish revolt

1980 In 2 days Iraq seized 5 border posts from Iran Precursor to Iran-Iraq War

1980 Iran didn’t retaliate for Iraq seizing border posts making Saddam think reports

that Iran weak after revolution true

1987 Iran said it would agree to UN ceasefire if Iraq named as aggressor in war

1997 Iraqi soldier attacked a weapons inspector on board a helicopter for trying to take

pictures of vehicles moving inside a suspected WMD site

2001 Bush asked CIA Dir Tenet whether he was looking into Iraq-Al Qaeda

connections

2001 Rumsfeld said attacking Iraq would be good deterrent to countries that support

terrorism

2001 Rumsfeld told army to come up with plans for seizing Iraq’s southern oil fields

2001 DepDefSec Wolfowitz told press US would eliminate states that sponsor

terrorism

2001 US intelligence and counterterrorism agencies meeting agreed no connection

between Iraq and al Qaeda Report sent to Bush
2001 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey said US needed to look into whether Iraq rather than

Al Qaeda was behind 9/11

2001 L. Mylroie Wall St Journal OpEd said Al Qaeda not capable of 9/11 and was

probably Iraq

2002 Bush said US might only be certain Iraq had a nuclear device when it used one

2002 US official told Knight Ridder Iraq not close to building a nuclear bomb

2002 NYT article said State and Energy Depts questioned whether aluminum tubes

Iraq tried to buy were for nuke program

2003 Defense Dept official told press Iraq had worked on mobile WMD labs but

inspectors never found them

2003 Rumsfeld called Bremer with idea of immediately giving sovereignty to Iraq

2004 Report US forces routinely tortured and abused prisoners in Mosul

2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded Turkish civilian Durmus Kumdereli

2007 ISI assassinated Sheikh Abu Risha leader in Awakening in bombing in Ramadi

2007 Bush gave televised speech saying Surge was making progress in Iraq

2014 New campaign launched to try to clear Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr of IS

MUSINGS ON IRAQ