This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 12

1935 National Service Bill signed by King starting conscription for army King

hoped conscription would help with nation building by creating army drawn from all parts of Iraq

1963 Soviet Union condemned Arif govt military campaign against Kurds

1979 Govt put down 9 days of Dawa led protests capped off by arresting Ayatollah Baqir

            al-Sadr Led to more protests in Iraq plus Lebanon UAE Braitain France Iran

1982 U.N. called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

1994 8,000 Kurdish refugees who had fled to Turkey after 91 uprising moved back into

            Iraq to escape fighting between PKK and Turkish army

1996 UN Resolution 1060 found Iraq not allowing UN weapons inspectors full access

            to sites

1996 UK intel report worried that Iraq still hiding parts of missile and WMD programs

1997 UN inspectors said Iraq had blocked them from 3 sites in last two days

2003 1^st bombing of an Iraqi oil pipeline near Kirkuk after invasion

2003 White House said were some fake docs about Iraq-Niger uranium deal but

            much more evidence to support story

2003 DIA memo to DepSecDef Wolfowitz said docs on Iraq-Niger uranium deal fakes

but were unconfirmed reports that supported deal such as report that uranium was in warehouse in Benin

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson gave background info to Wash Post article claiming CIA didn’t

tell Bush doubts about Iraq-Niger uranium deal Claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger docs but never did

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson believed his trip to Niger discredited Iraq uranium deal story

            within CIA but didn’t

2003 VP Cheney told chief of staff Libby Wilson’s wife’s name and said she worked for

            CIA Later leaked to press to attack Wilson

2003 Cheney and chief of staff Libby were worried about press reports they felt were

            trying to blame VP and Bush for false reports on WMD

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

2006 Report Al Qaeda in Iraq replaced Zarqawi with Egyptian Abu Masri Was actually

            War Min Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir new emir

2006 Health Dir for Diyala province kidnapped and believed killed by Mahdi Army

2006 Bush approved US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey’s campaign plan to withdraw US forces

and turn responsibilities over to Iraqis Bush didn’t approve of withdrawal plan but went along with it anyway

2007 1920 Revolution Brigade turned on ISI in Diyala after made deal with US

2008 Maliki sent forces to Maysan to crackdown on Sadrists

2008 Senior Sadrist and Iranian linked arms dealer arrested in Kut, Wasit

2011 Suicide car bombing on Basra police headquarters killing 5

2011 Sadr bloc threatened to pull out of National Coalition and push no confidence

            vote against Maliki if US troops given extension to stay in Iraq

2011 US Amb to Iraq Jeffries said majority of Iraqi blocs supported troop extension for

            US except Sadr

2011 Iraqiya withdrew from parliament after pro-Maliki march in Baghdad burned

            Allawi’s picture

2012 Kurdish MP claimed if no confidence vote against Maliki went to parliament

            would be passed

2012 Maliki held cabinet meeting in Dhi Qar trying to prop up base against no

            confidence vote

2013 Charge of Knights of the Tigris anti-insurgent op started in Muqtadiya Abu Saida

            Hamrin Jalawla in Diyala

2013 Sadr-Supreme Council alliance took Basra governorship from State of Law after

            provincial elections SOL got head of council

2014 ISIS announced it was imposing sharia on Mosul ISF members had to repent

or be executed Killed Imam of grand mosque in Mosul who refused to support group

2014 ISIS executed 84 ISF in Mosul

2014 ISIS committed Camp Speicher massacre executing cadets in Salahaddin

2014 ISIS seized 10 towns in Salahaddin and attacked Amerli

2014 ISIS announced that it was going to execute ISF in Dhuluiya, Salahaddin

2014 ISIS told local tribes in Dhuluiya they had to turn over ISF or they would be

            killed Refused and tribes starting fighting ISIS

2014 Jabour tribe fighting ISIS in Alam east of Tikrit

2014 Army and Sahwa withdrew from three major entrances to Fallujah

2014 Insurgents attacked and seized Kubaisa and Saqlawiya in Anbar

2014 ISF withdrew from Qaim and Mazra army base without a fight in Anbar ceding

            Syrian border to insurgents

2014 Emergency session of parliament to discuss security crisis cancelled due to lack

            of quorum

2014 Supreme Council announced that it sent first unit of militiamen to fight

            insurgents

2014 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq set up checkpoints near Dhuluiya Salahaddin Opened fire

            on 3 vehicles killing 12 civilians

2014 3 Sunni men kidnapped and killed by Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in Sadiya, Baghdad

2014 Quds Force commander Gen Suleimani went to Baghdad to help coordinate

            security policy against insurgents

2014 2 Brigades of Iranian Revolutionary Guard deployed to Samarra Najaf and

            Karbala to protect shrines

2014 Iranian Revolutionary Guard deployed to Iran-Iraq border Iran air force put on

            alert

2015 Peshmerga and Hashd got into firefight in Sadiya Diyala in power struggle for

            control of Khanaqin district

2016 Anbar Governor report Hashd killed 43 displaced in Fallujah op 600+

            disappeared Beatings tortuing stealing from displaced

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