1998 U.S. began attacks upon
Iraqi air defense system in north
1998 Italian paper claimed
Saddam and bin Laden made pact to act against US and
Iraq
offered Saddam safe haven
2001 Gen Franks presented Bush with latest version of Iraq
war plan
2001 Gen Franks’ plan included 7 lines of operation that
could be used independently
or in
conjunction and 9 parts of Iraq that could be targeted
2001 Gen Franks wanted to start building up US forces in
Gulf and information
campaigns
immediately
2001 Gen Franks said that US would be ready for war with
Iraq by April to June 2002
2001 Gen Frans also wanted US to start working with Iraqi
opposition inside Iraq
2001 CIA Dir Tenet said Iraqi opposition wouldn't work with
US without seeing
strong
commitment from Washington
2001 Bush asked Franks if plan good enough to win Franks
said yes with some work
2001 Bush ordered State and Defense Depts to start building
up support amongst
regional countries
for Iraq invasion
2001 Richard Perle of Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board OpEd
in NY Times said US
had to
attack Iraq
2002 Report NSC Sr Dir Near East Abrams drafted plan for US
to seize control
of Iraq’s
southern oil fields
2003 Iraqi Governing Council wrote letter to UN about CPA’s
plans to hold caucuses
instead of
elections for new Iraq parliament
2005 UN endorsed December elections for a permanent Iraqi
parliament
2006 NSC agreed that Petraeus would be new Iraq commander
for Surge
2010 PM Maliki said no changes would be made to the SOFA
agreement with the US
and all its
troops would leave Iraq
2013 Speaker Nujafi said arrest of PM Alwani illegal due to
parliamentary
immunity
Called for investigation
2013 Speaker Nujafi’s parliamentary investigative group into
arrest of PM Alwani
blocked
from entering Anbar by ISF
2013 Curfew imposed in Ramadi
2015 Iraqi forces freed Ramadi
2016 Last bridge crossing Tigris in Mosul destroyed by
Coalition airstrike to prevent
IS
retreating from eastern to western section of city
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