This Day In Iraqi History – Feb 27

1982 US removed Iraq from list of terrorist countries in step towards restoring relations

1984 Iran captured Majnoon Islands Was turning point in war

1984 Iraq bombed Iran’s main oil terminal Kharg Island Said it would continue to attack

            oil industry until Iran agreed to end war

1984 Iraq used leased French Super Entendard jets for 1^st time attacking two Iranian tankers

1988 Iraq fired missiles on Saqqez Iran killing 26

1991 Battle of Medina, Basra US 1^st Armored Div and 3^rd Inf Div defeated Iraq’s

Medina and Adnan Divs in largest tank battle of Gulf War

1991 Battle of Kuwait Airport US 1^st Mar Div took airport

1991 Pres Bush declared Kuwait liberated

1991 Voice of Free Iraq radio station aired broadcast calling on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam

1991 Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell said he was ready to recommend end of Gulf War

            in 24 hrs Bush said should end it now

1991 Bush offered ceasefire Iraq accepted it

1995 Car bomb in Zakho killed 76 PUK blamed Baghdad KDP blamed PUK

1996 Iraq provided new declaration on missile program with more info to UN inspectors

2001 Sec of State Powell got Arab states to agree to new smart sanctions on Iraq

2001 DepDefSec Wolfowitz told Senate US reviewing Iraq policy and how to work with

            groups like INC

2002 UK Def Min said govt had to consider military action against Iraq

2003 Saddam agreed to destroy Samoud 2 missiles found to violate range limitations

            by UN inspectors US and UK said Iraq playing games

2003 Wolfowtiz told House Comm admin had no estimates of costs of reconstructing

            Iraq and wouldn’t know until it got there

2003 Wolfowitz told House Comm calls for more troops to handle postwar Iraq were

            “outlandish”

2003 ORHA head Garner learned he only had $27 mil to run postwar Iraq

2003 UK Att Gen Goldsmith changed his position that UN Res 1441 alone could be

            legal basis for action against Iraq

2003 UK oil firms met with govt officials saying they thought US firms were getting

            deals for postwar Iraq over them

2003 State Dept paper said multiple sources claimed Iraq had mobile WMD labs

2003 State Dept analysis said creating democracy in Iraq would be difficult and likely

            undermined by internal and external issues

2003 CIA told Sen Levine that it didn’t believe Iraq-Niger uranium deal made but Iraq

            might have been interested in one in 1999

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

2004 Deadline to finish Iraq’s interim constitution Transitional Administrative Law missed

2004 Fmr chief UN inspector Blix told Guardian he thought US spied on him

2007 Mahdi Army began attack on UK bases in Basra

2009 Pres Obama announced withdrawal plan for U.S. forces from Iraq by 2011

2011 Maliki set 100 day deadline to reform government in response to national protests

2011 After Imam gave speech at Sulaymaniya protest was arrested and beat by peshmerga

2011 Babil Gov Zarkani resigned after protests and pressure from Maliki

2012 Diyala governor forced to resign after supported autonomy for province

2012 Head of Election Commission said that it got forms to register voters for

            referendum on Salahaddin autonomy

2016 Sadr led demonstrations in Baghdad calling for ending corruption and reforming govt

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