This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 22

1980 Iraq invaded Iran starting Iran-Iraq War

1980 Iraq wanted to protect Kirkuk and Baghdad while seizing Khuzistan province in

            south Iran

1980 Iraq started war bombing 10 Iranian airfields hoping to wipe out air force but

            failed

1980 Iraqi army crossed into Iran along 8 routes

1980 Iraqi army moved on Pankwin Iranian Kurdistan to protect Sulaymaniya and

            Kirkuk

1980 Iraq division seized Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran to block road to Baghdad

1980 Iraqi division took Meghan and reached Zagros Mts to protect flank of southern

            thrust into Iran

1980 4 Iraqi divisions attacked Khuzistan province taking Musian and moving on

            Dezful Ahvaz Shatt al-Arab Khormashahr Abadan

1980 Iraq declared Khuzistan a new Iraq province

1980 UK Defense Committee discussed how to start selling weapons to Iraq

1981 Iran began Operation Samen ol Aemeh to break siege of Abadan Iran’s 2^nd largest

            city

1987 Iranian speech at UN rejected UN ceasefire talks

1988 Pres Khomeini addressed UN condemning it for not doing anything about

            Iraq’s aggression during war

2001 Telegraph story claiming Iraq was funding Al Qaeda Quoted CIA and Israeli

            sources

2002 Rice said UN sanctions were failing and Iraq using illegal revenues to develop WMD

2003 Zarqawi bombed Canal Hotel Baghdad 2 dead 19 wounded

2003 Bombing of UN compound led to unanimous decision to evacuate UN

            staff from Iraq

2003 Bremer testified to Congress asking for approval of $87 bil in aid for Iraq

2003 Report Iraqi Governing Council members were going to tell Congress US

            reconstruction money being wasted

2004 2 suicide car bombs in Baghdad killed 21 wounded 150

2006 Ret Gen Keane told Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace he was failing and his only

            priority should be winning in Iraq

2006 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace agreed to set up staff to go over Iraq strategy after

            talking with Ret Gen Keane

2006 Ret Gen Keane suggested Gen Petraeus should be new US Iraq Cmdr to Joint

            Chiefs head Gen Pace

2008 Wasit council headed by SIIC refused to set up Tribal Support Councils because

            seen as tools of Maliki

2016 Parliament dismissed Finance Minister Zebari on corruption charges led by

            Maliki and Reform Front

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