This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 10

1949 Ali Aiyubi became premier of Iraq for 2^nd time

1981 Report that Soviet Union resumed arms deliveries to Iraq after ban when Iran-Iraq War started

1983 Dawa members including Abu Muhandis set off 5 bombs at US and French embassies and 

           other targets in Kuwait killing 6 wounding 80

1996 Oil for Food program started operating in Iraq

1999 UN Res 1281 extended Oil for Food Program for Iraq

2001 Ansar al-Islam formed from 3 Kurdish Islamist groups

2002 USAID said Iraq would be small intervention but security needed to be first priority

2002 NSC committee presented humanitarian plan for postwar Iraq based upon

            secure environment and small US role

2002 IAEA went to Al Qaim facility US claimed was an active Iraqi nuclear plant

            Found it destroyed

2003 CPA presented list of 1,706 priority projects US and Iraq didn’t have money

            for all of them

2003 US asked France Germany Russia to forgive some of the debt Iraq owed them

2003 Russia refused US request to forgive its Iraq debt after US banned it from

            bidding on reconstruction projects

2007 Def Sec Gates told NSC that Pres Tabalni told him Maliki was intolerable and

            US should help remove him

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