This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 14

1980 Iran’s Chief of Staff of military said it no longer abided by 1975 Algiers

            Agreement with Iraq over Shatt al-Arab border

2001 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey said Saddam could be working with Al Qaeda

2001 Bush told Blair that there might be an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection

2002 Bush said Iraq had scientists infrastructure and buying equipment to enrich

            uranium to build nuclear bomb in a year

2003 Cheney said that Iraq had WMD and relationship with Al Qaeda dating back to

            90s

2003 Cheney said what US found since invasion proved Iraq had WMD capabilities

2003 Cheney said if Iraq had gotten fissile material it could have built a nuclear bomb

            in months to a year

2003 Cheney claimed that 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague in

            2001

2003 Cheney said Iraq involved in 1993 World Trade Center bombing

2003 Cheney said democracy in Iraq would be blow against base of anti-western

            terrorism in the world

2003 Cheney said US didn’t need more troops in Iraq and security improving

2003 Report Iraqi scientists said nuclear program scrapped in 90s during UN

            inspections

2003 Poll 52% of US respondents supported Bush’s Iraq policies down 23% since war

            ended

2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq car bomb hit Baghdad police station Killed 59 wounded almost

            100

2005 Baghdad bombings killed 150 and injured more than 500

2007 SecDef Gates said US could get down to 100,000 troops by end of 08 Petraeus

            complained too fast

2007 ISI claimed responsibility for killing Anbar Salvation Council head Sheikh

            Abu Risha

2012 New Baghdad-Irbil oil export/revenue sharing deal announced

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