MUSINGS ON IRAQ: This Day In Iraqi History

Monday, February 12, 2018

1960 Cleric Muhsin al-Hakim issued fatwa against joining the Communist Party

1974 Iran-Iraq border dispute discussed at UN after firefight killed more than 50

1974 UN got Iran and Iraq to agree to talks to resolve border dispute

1979 Iraq recognized the new revolutionary government in Iran

1984 Iraq launched missiles and air strikes on Dezful, Iran leaving 105 casualties

during war of cities

1986 Iraq counter attacked to retake Fao from Iranians

1987 Iran started Op Fatah 4 attacking Kurdistan

1988 Saudi King Fahd called Saddam worried about Iran’s new Basra offensive

1991 Russian diplomat Primakov went to Baghdad to try to arrange withdrawal from

Kuwait Saddam demanded end of sanctions in return

1995 Iraqi army brigade attacked and suffered heavy losses at hands of Badr Brigade in

Qurna

2001 Rumsfeld said Iraq was probably not a nuclear threat at this time

2002 Powell told Senate that regime change in Iraq was US policy since Clinton

Said no plans for invasion though

2002 DIA report Iraq tried to buy 500 tons of yellowcake uranium from Niger

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

2003 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie who was named in Iraq-Niger

uranium deal docs Denied story

2003 UN inspectors announce Iraq’s Samoud 2 missiles violated range limits set by UN

2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq had larger WMD program then before Gulf War

2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq would get a nuclear weapon sooner or later and

would have missiles to deliver it

2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate US had briefed UN on all suspected WMD

sites Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites

2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate there were Iraq-Al Qaeda contacts but no command

and control

2004 CENTCOM commander Gen Abizaid’s convoy attacked in Fallujah

2004 UN rep to Iraq Brahimi met with Ayatollah Sistani about why early elections

not possible Brahimi said Iraq had to go through process to organize vote

2006 Jaafari won re-nomination of United Iraqi Alliance for premiership with support

of Sadr

2006 Pres Talabani said Kurdish list refused demands to exclude Allawi’s Iraqiya from

govt coming from Sadr

2007 Gen Petraeus went to Anbar and endorsed Awakening and said model should be

copied in rest of Iraq

2010 Election Commission banned 458 candidates for Baath ties from vote after

court had unbanned them

2010 Election Commission under pressure from Maliki to ban candidates

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