2002 UK Foreign Sec Straw and Sec of State Powell thought UN
inspections would
not provide
smoking gun against Iraq so alternatives needed
2002 UN inspectors said they had gone to all major suspected
WMD sites and
found
nothing
2002 Report Reagan admin and its Middle East envoy Rumsfeld
did nothing while
Iraq used
WMD in Iran-Iraq War
2003 White House meeting on what to do about Governing
Council going to UN
to ask them
with help to transition to sovereignty
2003 White House decided they would try to block any UN plans
for Iraq because
wanted to
keep control of process
2003 White House meeting then turned to security Cheney said
he wanted to
eliminate
Sadr
2005 Oil Min Uloom put on leave after opposing govt plan to
increase prices on gas and
cooking oil
Replaced by Dep PM Chalabi
2005 South Korea’s parliament okayed plan to withdraw 1/3 of
its forces from Iraq
Korea had 3rd
largest Coalition force in Iraq
2006 Iraqi govt hanged Saddam Hussein while Sadrists taped
it and chanted Moqtada
2006 Naqshibandi insurgent group formed
2013 Anbar sheikhs gave govt 12 hour ultimatum to release PM
Alwani
2013 Maliki shut down Ramadi and Fallujah protest camps Led
to call to arms in city
in protest
and gunfire
2013 Gunmen appeared in Fallujah after protest site there
closed setting up checkpoints
and
fighting with ISF
2013 Maliki used death of army's 7th Div cmdr to shut
down Anbar protest sites helping
insurgency’s
re-birth
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