This Day In Iraqi History – Jan 28

1920 Turkish National Pact said Turkey gave up rights to all Ottoman provinces

            with Arab majorities including Basra and Baghdad

1920 Turkish National Pact did not include Mosul province which Turkey claimed had

            Turkish majority Kurds called Turks

1920 British also claimed Mosul province which it occupied after armistice with

            Ottomans in 1918

1941 Regent appointed 2 new ministers to try to unseat PM Gaylani leading Gaylani to plot against

            Regent

1985 Iraq launched first offensive since 1981 attacking Qasr e Shirin central Iran

1985 Iraq tried to re-take Majnoon Islands from Iran but failed

1998 UK discussed using force against Iraq to ensure continued UN weapons

inspections

2003 Bush’s State of Union said Iraq wasn’t disarming and hiding its programs from

            weapons inspections

2003 Said Iraq had 25,000 liters of anthrax enough to make 38,000 liters of botulinum

            toxin Making sarin and VX gas Had mobile WMD labs

2003 Bush speech asked what 9/11 hijackers could’ve done if given WMD by Iraq

2003 Bush said British learned Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2003 Bush’s State of Union said Saddam was harboring Al Qaeda members

2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw told For Office legal adv Wood that he didn’t think 2^nd UN

            resolution was necessary for action vs Iraq

2003 ORHA head Garner met with NSC’s Zalimay who said goal of postwar Iraq

            should be getting Iraqis to govern as soon as possible

2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby gave copy of his briefing on Iraq WMD and ties to

            Al Qaeda to Powell to be used as basis for his UN speech

2004 Ex-IraqSurveyGroup’s Kay told Congress everyone wrong about Iraq having

            stocks of WMD but did have programs

2004 Ex-IraqSurveyGroup head Kay told Congress an investigation was needed on intel

            failure over Iraq’s WMD

2004 White House said that Iraq Survey Group needed more time to make conclusions

            about whether Iraq had WMD or not

2004 Hutton Inquiry said Sep 02 dossier on Iraq’s WMD had not been influenced by

            political pressure from Blair govt

2004 UN Sec Gen Annan said UN delegation would go to Iraq to look into elections
2004 CPA Order 55 created Integrity Commission to investigate corruption

2006 Aglus Sunnah wal Jammah joined Mujahadeen Shura Council

2007 Soldiers of Heaven started revolt in Najaf leaving almost 300 dead

2011 Protest in Mosul demanded govt release of prisoners

2016 Abadi met with Pres Masum Speaker Jabouri to talk about technocratic govt and reforms

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