This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 29

1917 British captured Ottoman fort at Khadairi Bend in campaign to recapture

            Kut

1948 PM Jabr forced to resign over protests over Anglo-Iraq treaty organized by

            Communists Regent also against Jabr

1948 Sayid Mohammed al-Sadr replaced Jabr as PM

1953 Jamil al-Midfai became PM for 5^th time

1982 King Hussein said Jordanian troops would be sent to Iraq to help in Iran-Iraq

            War

1991 Iraq launched probing attack upon Saudi city of Khafji occupying it

1998 Last part of final report of UN inspectors in Iraq issued

2002 Bush State of Union called Iraq part of Axis of Evil Said it still had WMD

programs

2002 Iran and North Korea added to Axis of Evil speech because Bush admin didn’t

            want to be seen as focusing upon Iraq

2003 UN Amb Negroponte said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for nuke program

2003 Rumsfeld said Iraq had a nuke weapons program and tried to buy uranium from

            Africa

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Powell Chief of Staff Wilkerson went over info to be used in Powell speech to UN

            at CIA HQ

2003 State’s Wilkerson rejected using Cheney Chief of Staff’s briefing as basis for

            Powell’s UN speech CIA Dir Tenet said NIE on Iraq should be used instead

2003 Aid groups warned that if Pentagon ran postwar Iraq many international donors

            would be reluctant to give relief

2004 NatlSecAdv Rice said what US predicted about Iraq WMD before war not what

            found afterward

2004 NatlSecAdv Rice said Saddam deceived US and world about its WMD

2004 State Dept said failure to find out about Iraq’s WMD was not US failure but

            international one

2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay told Bush Saddam wanted Iraqis to believe

            country had WMD when it didn't

2004 Fmr Iraq Survey Group head Kay said he thought Saddam destroyed his WMD

            stocks because too easy to find

2004 Bush asked Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay why Saddam didn’t admit he had

            no WMD Kay said Saddam wanted fear to stop revolts by Shiites and Kurds

2005 RAND Corp Iraq became center for jihadist cause and cause of terrorism in rest of

            world

2005 Human Rights Watch US Abu Ghraib prison scandal became recruitment tool for

            terrorists

2006 Al Qaeda sent 2^nd letter to Ansar al-Sunnah saying it sent representative to

            Iraq to work out issues with Al Qaeda in Iraq

2006 Sharia Committee for the Army of the Followers of the Sunnah and the Collective

            joined Mujahedeen Shura Council

2006 Sharia Committee for the Army of the Followers of the Sunnah and the

            Collective’s emir was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's group

2006 Report after US made deal with sheikhs in Ramadi against Al Qaeda in Iraq in

mid-Jan 3 sheikhs assassinated leading tribes to retaliate against AQI

2006 Report 3 Islamist insurgent groups once aligned with Al Qaeda in Iraq in Ramadi

            broke with it

2006 National Security Adviser Rubaie said Al Qaeda in Iraq feuding with Islamic Army

            and Mujahedeen Army 

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