This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 25

1917 British attack Ottoman positions along Hai River

1959 Gen Qasim legalized trade unions

1967 Pres Johnson met 5 Iraqi generals and Iraqi Amb Hani at White House and

            said that they would build closer ties

1981 Islamic Conference Organization created group to try to mediate end to Iran-Iraq

            War

1987 3^rd War of the Cities ended

1990 OPEC said Kuwait and UAE agreed to limit exports to try to settle dispute with

            Iraq

1998 1^st part of final report of UN inspections in Iraq

2003 Military Industrialization Commission officials had Republican Guard

            commanders sign docs that they had no WMD in units

2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby briefed White House on case vs Iraq’s WMD and ties

            to Al Qaeda

2003 Libby said Iraq hiding its WMD and cleaning sites before UN inspections

2003 Libby said Iraq-Al Qaeda ties strong

2003 Libby played recording of 2 Al Qaeda operatives talking about poisons that Libby

            said they got from Iraq

2003 Libby claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraq intelligence in Prague up to 4 times

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group Head Kay US intel was wrong about state of Iraq’s WMD

            programs

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay US intel agencies had to explain why they failed

            on Iraq intel on WMD

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay said Iraq tried to restart nuke program in 2000-01

            but didn’t get far

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay said Iraq had active biological weapons program

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay 1998 US bombing had stopped Iraq’s chemical

            weapons program

2005 Bush admin said it would ask Congress for another $80 bil for Iraq and

            Afghanistan wars

2005 Human Rights Watch reported arbitrary arrests torture abuse threats corruption in

            Iraqi justice system

2006 Report US wanted to make Iraqi army light infantry force to fight insurgency and not

            threaten neighbors Meant given no artillery or heavy weapons besides 77 T-72 tanks

2010 3 international hotels bombed

2013 ISF killed 9 protesters at Fallujah protest camp for throwing stones

2015 Yazidi militias and YPG forced Arabs out of Om Danabuk, Sinjar Killed 10 and

            looted village

2015 Badr’s Amiri claimed all of Diyala cleared of IS

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