This Day In Iraqi History – Jan 23

1920 British cabinet decided Iraqi oil would be developed by a public company

            Foreign Secretary Curzon overturned decision

1920 UK Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon decided Turkish Petroleum Company would

            keep its oil rights signed with Ottomans

1948 More protests against Anglo-Iraq Treaty leading to fights between Communist and

            Independence party

1970 33 conspirators in coup against Pres Bakr executed

1991 Iraq dumped 400 mil gallons of oil into Persian Gulf to try to prevent

            US retaking Kuwait

1999 NSC counterterrorism dir Clarke said US was right to bomb factory in Sudan

            because connected to Al Qaeda and Iraq WMD experts

2003 Defense Ministry ordered that if Baghdad were to fall all govt buildings were to

            be looted and burned

2003 Mukhabarat document called for looting and destruction of property if Saddam

            were overthrown

2003 Rice wrote NY Times OpEd Iraq hiding its WMD programs from UN inspectors

            and tried to buy uranium for its nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal

2003 Rumsfeld said that Iraq had WMD and ties to terrorism were one threat

2003 Under Sec of Def Wolfowitz said Iraq had tons of WMD and time running out for

            it

2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz speech Said Iraq didn’t make truthful weapons

            declaration to UN

2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Iraqi defectors told about Iraq having mobile

            WMD labs

2003 DepDefSec Woflowitz said Iraqi govt threatening scientists not to talk to

            UN inspectors

2003 White House released document saying Iraq hiding its WMD and tried to buy

            uranium for its nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal

2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigned saying didn’t think Iraq had any WMD

            stocks or large programs since 1980s

2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay said Iraq destroyed its WMD after Gulf War due to

            inspections and unilateral actions

2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigned because group was going to be diverted

            from finding WMD to fighting insurgency

2004 White House said it believed Iraq had WMD and it would be found

2006 Report Iraqis going to Jordan jumped from 200-250/day from 2004-05 to 1,100/day

            in Jan 06 as people were fleeing violence

2007 Bush State of Union outlined the Surge

2008 Iraqi Ninewa campaign began to secure Mosul

2008 20,000 pound bomb went off in Mosul leaving 300 casualties

2010 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped US contractor Issa Salomi which it swapped for 4 of

            its members held in prison

2015 Hashd destroyed four mosques in Muqtadiya, Diyala after operation there

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