This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 3

1958 Nuri al-Said became premier 8^th time

(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM Maliki)

1970 Committee created for economic cooperation between Iraq and Soviet Union

1981 Islamic Conf Organization went back to Tehran to present its peace plan

1983 Iraq claimed it destroyed several Iranian oil rigs and 5 Iranian ships in Persian Gulf

1984 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that could be used for chemical

            weapons

1986 Iran ended Op Dawn 9 that reached within a few miles of Sulaymaniya City but

            then got pushed back

1987 Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Iran’s occupation of Fao Peninsula Basra

1991 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War

1991 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf following Gulf War Fired upon

            by security forces

1995 CIA told its team in Irbil not to support INC uprising plan

1999 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN sanctions by smuggling oil

1999 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in Karbala in revenge for

            murder of Ayatollah Sadr

2003 Russia threatened to use veto power in UN to stop any resolution authorizing

            war vs Iraq

2003 US and UK planes hit five targets in Wasit and Basra as part of no fly zone Were

            trying to weaken Iraq’s air defenses before invasion

2003 IAEA told US that docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries

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

2003 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for postwar Iraq UN said no

2003 UndersecDef Feith briefed Bush on Pentagon’s postwar plans Included creating

            democracy winning intl support destroying WMD

2003 Pentagon postwar Iraq plans only outlined goals not how to accomplish them

2004 Gen Taguba’s investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sent to military

2005 Kurds said parties had agreed on Talabani being Iraq’s president and Jaafari

            prime minister in new govt

2011 Gorran and 2 Islamic parties boycotted Kurdish parliament in support of protests

2014 ISIS released statement telling people in Kirkuk not to vote

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