1972 Iraq allowed French to keep their share of Iraq
Petroleum Company in
return for
technical aid to run industry
1988 Iraq Op Fury Stars working with Mujahadeen e-Khalq started
attacking Iranian
forces
using nerve gas to capture Mehran
1988 Iraq Op Fury Stars killed nearly 3500 Iranians and
destroyed a Iranian
Revolutionary
Guard Division Hit 10 oil fields
1990 Intl Islamic Popular Conf backed Iraq against Zionist
aggression and
conspiracy
led by US and England
1998 Inspectors report to UN Said Iraq not come clean on VX
program 1st denied it
worked with
it Then said produced experimental amount that was destroyed
1998 UN inspector report said Iraq later admitted it
produced 1.7 tons of VX but
didn’t
weaponize it
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 CIA Dir Tenet told Congress couldn’t find evidence for
story 9/11 hijacker
Atta met
with Iraqi intel officer in Prague in 01
2003 Gen Odierno 4th Inf Div commander said US
wasn’t facing an insurgency
in Iraq because wasn’t organized
opposition Said there were attacks on US troops but were insignificant overall
2003 DepSecDef Wolfowitz told Congress US facing an
insurgency in Iraq but U.S.
could beat
it
2003 Bremer talked with Bush about troop levels in Iraq Bremer
didn’t object to
drawdown
plan but said they shouldn’t go too low
2003 Bush said plan was to rotate troops into and out of
Iraq not to withdraw Said
troops
levels had to be maintained
2003 2,000 fired Iraqi soldiers protested outside of Green
Zone demanding pensions
1 speaker said they would attack US
forces for humiliating them Threw rocks US soldiers shot and killed 2
2003 Ex-ORHA head Garner met Rumsfeld in Washington
complained about CPA
policies Garner told Rumsfeld
deBaathifiaction disbanding military and Iraq leadership group all wrong but
could be fixed
2003 Rumsfeld told ex-ORHA head Garner couldn't fix mistakes
made by CPA could
only move
forward in Iraq
2003 Rumsfeld held press conference for ex-ORHA head Garner
who said everything
going well
in Iraq Bremer doing good job
2003 Ex-ORHA head Garner met with Bush said that Iraq going
well and Bremer doing
good job
2003 David Kay new head of Iraq Survey Group looking for
Iraq WMD left for Qatar
to run
search
2003 Kay switched Iraq Survey Group from search teams going
to suspected WMD
sites to
intel op going through Iraqi docs
2003 CIA informed House and Senate Intel committees that it
no longer believed Iraq-
Niger
uranium story
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide car bombing Army recruitment
center Baghdad killed 35
wounded 145
2004 9/11 Commission spokesman said it found no evidence of
cooperation between
Iraq and Al
Qaeda
2008 Los Angeles Times interview with CURVEBALL Iraqi
defector in Germany who
claimed Iraq had mobile WMD labs
Claimed everything he said was true and he should be treated like a king for
helping overthrow Saddam
(Musings
On Iraq article on CURVEBALL)
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2011 Shooting between Sadrists and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in Sadr
City
2012 Report Gov Nujafi and Hadbaa made deals with Kurds in
Ninewa after two
opposed
each other
2012 2 suicide bombers hit Shiite funeral in Baquba killing
22
2014 Tal Afar, Ninewa declared cleared but wasn’t
2014 Maliki said he would not step down in return for U.S.
military aid
2014 Joint Chiefs head Gen Dempsey and Sec of Def Hagel told
congress Iraqi govt had
to reach
out to Sunnis to end insurgency
2014 Insurgents kidnapped 17 Shiites from Tuz Kharmato and
executed them
2014 Insurgents began attack upon Baiji refinery
2014 New security operation in Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil began
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