This Day In Iraqi History – Feb 13

1967 Pres Arif speech declared Freedom Socialism and Unity belonged to no

            Party co-opting Baathist slogans

1979 Iraq sent memo to new Iranian govt after revolution asking for friendly relations

1991 Amiriya shelter in Baghdad bombed by U.S. during Gulf War 408 killed

1999 AP reported that Saddam offered bin Laden shelter after being kicked out of Afghanistan 

2002 Bush at press conference said he had a number of options for dealing with Iraq

2002 Bush admin officials told several media outlets they had decided to move against Iraq

2003 UN announced it had humanitarian plan for Iraq working with 6 regional

            countries and had $30.6 mil and would ask for another $88.8 mil

2003 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks told Bush he had Iraqi mayors for each city to run

            things after invasion He didn’t

2003 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie second time over Iraq-Niger

            uranium deal Denied story

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

2004 After talks with Sistani UN endorsed Ayatollah’s call for early elections but said

            they can’t happen as soon as Sistani wanted

2004 Report CIA review showed it relied upon too many unreliable exile sources

            for intel on Iraq’s WMD Included INC defector Haideri

2005 Early election results showed that Shiite United Iraqi Alliance got 140 of 275

            seats in parliament missing majority it wanted

2005 Provisional election results released UIA 48% Kurds 26% Iraqiya List 14% 58%

            voter turnout

2006 Saddam returned to court on order of judge and chanted “Down with Bush!”

2011 Khairallah Babakir of Kurdish Alliance named Trade Minister in new Maliki govt

2016 Sadr said economic reforms needed and better govt Gave Abadi 45 day

            deadline and supported his technocratic govt idea

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