This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 4

1917 British defeated Ottoman forces at Hai River

1925 League of Nations Mosul commission final report said Mosul should go to

            British Iraq Mandate with Kurds getting concessions

1963 Gen Qasim arrested 1 opponent as Communists warned of an impending coup

1979 Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr began Islam Guides to Life series that outlined his ideas on

             an Islamic political system

1981 Iraq received around 100 tanks from Eastern Europe

1998 UK intel report said UN inspectors had destroyed majority of Iraq’s WMD programs

1998 Blair govt talked about how dangerous Saddam was due to his WMD capabilities

2003 US gave documents on alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal to IAEA

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

2003 UN inspectors looked at two alleged mobile WMD labs and found nothing

2003 CIA analyst emailed Dep Chief Iraq Task Force against using Curveball story

            that Iraq had mobile WMD labs

2003 CIA Dept Chief Iraq Task Force told CIA analyst war coming so didn’t matter

            if there were questions about Curveball and his mobile WMD labs story

2003 CIA Dir Tenet warned by European chief Drumheller that there were problems with

            Curveball’s story that Iraq had mobile WMD labs Tenet said don’t worry

2003 Blair said plan was to get UN to show Iraq not cooperating on WMD and then have

Arab countries make Saddam step down

2003 Powell and Turkey’s Foreign Min Yakis met to talk about US aid in return for

            using Turkey in Iraq invasion

2004 UK intel officer said intel heads ignored warnings that Iraqi WMD could not be

            confirmed before invasion

2004 Future IS leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi arrested by Americans and sent to Camp

            Bucca

2005 Early election results had United Iraqi Alliance 44% Kurds 18% Iraqiya 12% of

            vote

2008 Sadr renewed ceasefire after 6 months

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