This Day In Iraqi History – Nov 14

1963 Baath Sec Gen Sadi said 8 Baathist leaders had been ousted and that he was returning to

            Baghdad with Syrian Baathists

1980 Iraq offensive to take Susangard, Iran started

1991 Kurds announced tentative deal with Saddam to end blockade of Kurdistan in return for

            Peshmerga withdrawing from cities

1998 Iraq agreed to work with weapons inspectors after US threatened attack

2001 Def Policy Board head Perle speech at For Policy Research Institute Said Iraq behind 9/11

            and should be attacked

2001 Cheney said he knew 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraq intelligence in Prague in 2001

2002 UK For Sec Straw told cabinet UN Resolution 1441 authorized military action against Iraq

            without a 2^nd resolution

2002 UK intel report said Iraq accepted new weapons inspectors to avoid US led attack

            and would continue to hide its most important WMD programs

2003 Japan decided to hold off deploying troops to Iraq due to rising violence

2003 South Korea ordered its 464 troops in southern Iraq to suspend operations due to rising

            violence

2003 Denmark rejected call to send 100 more troops to Iraq due to rising violence

2003 US army intel report said insurgency successfully preventing CPA from providing

            safe and secure Iraq

2003 US army intel report said US failing in Iraq because relying upon conventional

            military tactics and didn’t understand Iraqi culture

2003 US army intel report said insurgents were targeting tribal structure in Iraq while

            US ignoring it

2004 Insurgents kidnapped wounded police from Mosul hospital and dismembered

            them Led to ½ of city’s police to quit

2004 Iraqi police commandos sent into Mosul to recapture police stations after all

            but one fell to insurgents in city

2004 Report UN official Sevan accused of getting kickbacks from Iraq under Oil for

            Food Program Told his staff not to investigate corruption

2005 Pentagon’s Insp Gen announced investigation into Pentagon intel unit on Iraq-

            Al Qaeda ties to see whether it did anything illegal

2006 National Police arrested 159 people from Higher Educ Min in Baghdad who were

            never seen again presumed killed

2013 US Natl Counterterrorism Center testified to Congress that ISIS was strongest since

            its peak in 2006

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