This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 20

1959 Gen Qasim executed several leaders of Mosul coup attempt

1980 Iran called up its military reserves Lead up to Iran-Iraq War

1983 Iran threatened to close Persian Gulf if West and Gulf States continued to aid Iraq

1990 British intel report said lots of unknowns about Iraq’s ballistic missile program

1998 British intel report said Iraq probably still had biological weapons program

2001 During meeting on war on terror Blair asked Bush about Iraq who said it was not

            an immediate problem

2001 Blair told Bush they should take time to build up case against Iraq

2001 Undersec of Def Feith told Rumsfeld war on terror should be broad and Iraq

should be included

2001 Undersec of Def Douglas Feith complained about lack of good targets

            in Afghanistan and suggested bombing Iraq for 9/11

2001 Project for a New American Century in letter to Bush said Iraq might have

            supported 9/11 and Saddam had to be targeted in war on terror

2001 US intel officials told press they were looking into Iraq’s connections to 9/11

2001 Israeli intelligence said they thought Iraq connected to 9/11 Claimed Al Qaeda

            funded by Iraqi Intel Service

2001 US and UK jets bomb missile batteries in southern Iraq as part of No Fly Zones

2002 Pentagon set up planning group to deal with rebuilding Iraq’s oil industry after

            invasion

2002 UK Def Min said it could provide forces for military action against Iraq

2002 Time article White House using unsubstantiated stories to make case of Iraq-Al

            Qaeda ties

2003 Ansar al-Sunnah formed

2003 Governing Council member Aqila Hashemi shot outside her home in Baghdad

            Would die 3 days later

2003 Funeral for SCIRI head Ayatollah Baqir al-Hakim turned into anti-US occupation

            demonstration in Najaf

2004 Zarqawi beheaded US civilian Eugene Armstrong

2006 US commander in Iraq Gen. Casey gave his support to Anbar Awakening

2006 Chief judge in Saddam’s trial removed by cabinet for saying Saddam was not a

            dictator

2006 Intel report to Rumsfeld Iraq breaking up more Iraqi politicians stuck in

            ethnosectarian camps

2015 Human Rights Watch report on Hashd and Jabouri tribe destroying buildings in

Dour Albu Ajeel Alam Ali & part of Tikrit after Tikrit freed

2015 400-600 buildings destroyed in Dour 75 in Albu Ajeel 45 in Alam

            28 in Ali over 200 in Tikrit’s Qadisiyah

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