This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 27

1925 League of Nations Commission on Mosul arrived in province to protests Was to determine who

           would get Mosul Iraq or Turkey

1925 Commission interviewed hundreds of locals and mapped economy, land, trade

            routes, ethnicities

1948 Communists called for more protests against Anglo-Iraq Treaty to topple govt

1948 Mass demonstration against Anglo-Iraq treaty led to clashes with police in

            Baghdad 77 killed Hundreds wounded

2002 Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on latest war plan Said Iraqi military degraded by

            sanctions Wanted info campaign vs Iraq to start

2002 Gran Franks claimed the more the U.S. got involved against Saddam the less

            Iraqi people would support regime

2002 Gen Franks had cut war plan to 150 days down from 7 months and 245,000 troops

2002 Gen Franks wanted to cut timeline for war down to even less time

2003 Head UN inspector Blix told Security Council that Iraq cooperating with

            inspections but had not accepted disarmament  

2003 Head UN inspector Blix asked what undeclared WMD items did Iraq have Asked

            did it illegally produce anything after 98

2003 UN head inspector Blix said Iraq’s Dec WMD declaration had provided no new

            info and not answered questions

2003 Head UN inspector Blix said were questions about Iraq’s production of anthrax

            VX gas and WMD bombs from Iran-Iraq War

2003 El Baradei told Security Council IAEA had found no evidence of an active

            nuclear program in Iraq

2003 El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for rockets

            not nuclear program

2003 Powell said Iraq was hiding its WMD

2003 US intelligence said Blix would back off next declaration to UN on inspections

            because didn't want to start war

2003 Some in White House believed Blix lying about inspections and could not be

            trusted

2003 Bush believed US stuck in inspection process and pushed him towards war

2003 CIA report said Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger in 1999 Said was uranium

            in warehouse in Benin but was going to France not Iraq

2003 CIA Dir Tenet given copy of Bush’s State of the Union address that included

            claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger Tenet didn’t read speech

2003 CIA Berlin chief said that Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was considered a problem by Germans

            and they hadn’t confirmed any of his stories of mobile WMD labs

2003 ORHA began contracting for supplies and personnel for post-war Iraq 2 months

            before invasion

2003 William Safire NYTimes piece said Zarqawi went to Baghdad Then to Kurdistan

            to Ansar al-Islam proving Iraq-Al Qaeda link

2004 Ex-IraqSurveyGroup head Kay Iraq told UN in 1995 it had destroyed WMD

            and nuke program but no one believed them

2006 Report shifting US reconstruction money to security meant 60% of water and 125

            electricity projects would not be finished

2012 bombing of Shiite funeral left over 90 casualties

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