1940 Gen Umari Mosul garrison commander attempted coup
rather than be forced
to resign
by Regent Put down by Golden Square officers
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1985 US and Soviet officials met to discuss ways to end
Iran-Iraq War Nothing
came of it
1991 US 1st Cav Div launched large attack into
Iraq Engaged 7 Iraqi divisions
to deceive
Iraqis on where invasion would come from
1995 KDP and PUK resumed fighting in Rawandaz ending
ceasefire
1996 Hussein Kamal and brother Saddam Kamal accepted pardon
from Saddam
and returned
to Iraq Were later killed
1998 UN Sec Gen Annan met with Saddam to try to restart UN
weapons inspections
1998 U.N. report said Iraq’s electricity situation was in
dire straights
1998 UN Res 1153 increased Iraq’s exports from $2 bil in oil
each 6 months to $5.2 bil
and
expanded imports from food and medicine to infrastructure needs
1999 Supreme Council accused govt of killing Ayatollah
Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr
2002 Secret CIA team entered Kurdistan to prepare for ops
inside Iraq called
Northern
Iraq Liaison Elements
2002 CIA gave fmr Amb Johseph Wilson talking points for his
trip to Niger to
investigate
Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 UK Joint Intel Comm chief Scarlett briefed For Sec Cook
on Iraq’s WMD Cook
thought Iraq
didn’t have capability for large scale WMD attack
2003 Chief UN Inspector Blix told Blair intelligence he’d
gotten wasn’t great and
maybe Iraq
didn’t have much WMD
2003 UN sources told press US intel on Iraq WMD was not
turning up anything
2003 Report interviews with Iraqi scientists by inspectors
had not turned up any evidence
of a
nuclear program
2012 Saudi Arabia named its Jordan Ambassador as
non-resident ambassador to Iraq as
relations
were slowly improving
2013 Iraq signed deal to build natural gas pipeline from
Iran across Iraq to Syria
2016 Abadi said financial crisis meant reforms needed Called
for end of quota
system in
govt
2016 Sadr created committee to nominate technocrats for
Abadi’s new cabinet
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