This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 18

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 1^st 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 4^th 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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