This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 6

1914 British forces attacked Qurna 2^nd time and forced Turks to surrender Took

            1,000 prisoners

1990 Iraq began issuing passports for Iranians to visit Shiites shrines in Iraq

1990 Iraq announced it would release foreign nationals it held since Kuwait invasion

2001 Letter to Wash Post by Senators McCain Lieberman and others said that Iraq

            had to be eliminated

2002 White House accused Iraq of hiding WMDs from UN inspectors

2002 Official US troop buildup for Iraq invasion began Wasn’t made public until Feb 03

2003 Bremer’s convoy attacked on Route Irish to Baghdad airport

2003 Rumsfeld told Bremer Rice was trying to take over political file on Iraq Didn’t

            agree but was ceding role to her

2005 KDP followers attacked four offices of Kurdistan Islamic Union in Dohuk province

            Killed 2 wounded dozens for party withdrawing from Kurdish list

2005 KDP Dohuk govenror claimed Islamic Union’s ideology led to attacks and he

            couldn’t stop them

2005 Beforehand Islamic Union called KDP admin in Dohuk corrupt and said election

            would be struggle between Muslims and nonbelievers

2005 Beforehand KDP attacked Islamic Union for helping Arabs against Kurds

2006 Iraq Study Group released report calling for US withdrawal from Iraq Did

            include surge option

2012 US mediated withdrawal of federal and Kurdish forces from Tuz Kharmato and

            creation of local security forces along disputed areas

2012 US-Baghdad-Irbil agreement on security forces in disputed areas only partially

            implemented

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