This Day In Iraqi History – Nov 19

1914 British troops took Ottoman fort at Sahil in the city of Basra

1991 UN report said Iraqi forces used torture and mass killings to put down Shiite uprising after

            Gulf War

1999 UN Res 1275 extended Oil for Food program for Iraq during sanctions

2002 UK Def Min official warned Blair’s office that without proper postwar planning Iraq war

            could fail

2003 Car bomb at Sheikh Suleiman’s home after he made deal with US for police to take over
           security in Ramadi

2004 Assoc of Muslim Scholars announced Sunni boycott of Jan 05 elections claiming results

            would be fake and non-representative

2004 US Gen Smith dep cmdr CENTCOM said insurgents were carrying out effective intimidation

            campaign before Jan 05 elections

2005 Marines killed 24 civilians in revenge for Marine being killed by IED in Haditha

2006 Dep Health Min Saffar kidnapped by policeman Mahdi Army suspected of killing him under

            orders of Dep Health Min Zamili

2008 PUK politburo created committees to discuss its internal divisions

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