This Day In Iraqi History – Mar 6

1922 King Feisal threatened to end Anglo-Iraq treaty talks if term mandate

            wasn’t dropped from Iraq

1959 Leftists announced creation of Peace Partisans in Mosul Up to 250,000 from all

            over Iraq arrived in Mosul Caused reaction by pan-Arab opponents of Qasim

1975 Iran Iraq Algeria foreign ministers met and signed Algiers Agreement to settle

            Iran-Iraq border issues

1981 Iran demanded Islamic Conference Organization determine aggressor in the war

1991 Saddam appointed cousin Ali Majid Interior Minister to put down uprisings

            after Gulf War

1991 State Dept spokesman said foreign powers should not get involved in Iraqi

            uprisings following Gulf War

1991 Kurdish uprising started in Kol Sanjaq

1992 Turkey said it would send troops into Iraq to stop Kurdish independence

1992 Saddam regime suspected of car bombing in central Sulaymaniya outside Kurdish

            party offices

1998 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and Special Security Directorate

            sites

2002 Blair wrote article for UK paper saying Iraq had WMD and would use them

2002 Gen Franks briefed VP Cheney on which Middle East countries needed to be

            lobbied to help with Iraq invasion before trip to region

2002 CIA held meeting on covert and unconventional warfare capabilities against

            Iraq

2002 US war game held on political and military implications of Iraq invasion

2003 Bush TV address Said time running out on UN weapons inspectors Accused Iraq

            of hiding its WMD Bush said that he’d not decided on war when he had

2003 NatSecAdv Rice letter to Senator US had briefed UN on all suspected WMD

            sites Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites

2003 Blair was told UK should not try to administer post-war Iraq

2004 Report US intel dismissed reports that said Iraq had no WMD

2004 Report Bush chastised Rumsfeld over Abu Ghraib abuse scandal

2004 5 Shiite Iraqi Governing Councilmen refused to sign Transitional Administrative

            Law due to objections by Ayatollah Sistani

2006 Basra police surrounded 5 US govt workers Had to be rescued by security

            contractors

2006 Iraq NGO report to US said over 700 Shiite families fled neighborhoods in

            Baghdad after Askari shrine bombing

2007 ISI attacked Badush prison, Ninewa freeing 68 prisoners

2007 Bombing in Hilla killed 120

2007 Ret Gen Keane told VP Cheney that Petraeus had re-invigorated US mission

            in Iraq

2011 Independent radio station in Kalar attacked by armed men for supporting protests

2014 Transportation Min Amiri turned around Middle East Airlines plane in flight so

his son who was late could get on

2015 Dour outside of Tikrit freed from IS

2016 Kurdish delegation met with Abadi demanding 20% of any new cabinet

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