This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 19

1929 Abd Sadoun became premier for 4^th time

1936 UK officials met Nuri al-Said in Paris to discuss him mediating Palestine dispute

            Turned out he just wanted to promote Iraq

1980 Iran began heavy shelling of Shatt al-Arab, Basra and attacked ships in

            waterway precursor to Iran-Iraq War

1983 Iran said if major powers kept backing Iraq they would have oil cut off to them

1991 UN Resolution 712 offered oil for food program again Iraq rejected 2^nd time

1996 CIA Dir Deutch told Senate Intel Comm Saddam was in stronger position then

            he was before

2001 Iraq intel paper said Afghan source claimed bin Laden Taliban and Iraq worked

            together to target America Never confirmed

2001 Bush asked CIA Dir Tenet to look into Iraq-Al Qaeda ties and said VP Cheney

            had info on links

2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz sent ex-CIA Dir Woolsey to England to look into

            Iraq 9/11 & 1993 World Trade Center connections

2001 Chalabi told Pentagon’s Def Policy Board they should invade Iraq not

            Afghanistan

2002 Pentagon’s Def Policy Board met arguing for removing Saddam

2002 Saddam sent letter to UN saying it had no WMD or nuclear weapons

2002 Rumsfeld told Senate that UN weapons inspections were weak and weren’t going

            to find anything

2002 US said Iraq didn’t mention trying to buy uranium from Niger in its UN

            declaration

2002 Powell told House committee there was debate about Iraq’s intent on buying

aluminum tubes but Saddam trying to get nuke technology

2002 New intel said Iraq might have offered training to Al Qaeda and safe

            haven to bin Laden in 1990s

2003 CPA issued new rules for banking in Iraq to reform finances and to open up

            country to foreign investment

2003 Saddam’s Def Min Gen Hashim Ahmad surrendered to US in Kirkuk after

            negotiations

2004 Blair said Iraq was center of global war on terror

2005 Militia controlled police arrest 2 British soldiers leading to rescue mission by

            British forces that ended in gun battle with Mahdi Army

2006 US commander in Ramadi got Marine division commander in Anbar to back

Awakening

2006 Fmr Vice Army chief of staff Ret Gen Keane told Rumsfeld US close to

            strategic failure in Iraq

2006 Ret Gen Keane told Rumsfeld US strategy was to withdraw not defeat

            insurgency

2006 Ret Gen Keane told Rumsfeld US needed more troops in Iraq to protect

            population otherwise change impossible

2006 Pres Talabani told Bush security problem was US not arming ISF sufficiently and

            needed less US troops in Iraq

2014 France carried out first air strikes against IS hitting Zummar, Ninewa

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