MUSINGS ON IRAQ: This Day In Iraqi History

Monday, June 25, 2018

1961 Gen Qasim called for Kuwait to be re-united with Iraq Egypt said it was

opposed to idea

1988 2^nd Op Tawakal ala Allah using chemical weapons Iraq attacked Majnoon Islands

1991 Iraqis fired on UN weapons inspectors at suspected nuke site

2003 Report Captured Zarqawi operative in Germany said Zarqawi independent

terrorist not part of Al Qaeda

2003 Report State Dept WMD analyst told Congressional hearing he felt pressured to

tailor intel to fit Bush admin agenda on Iraq

2004 Captured Iraqi doc Iraq intel and bin Laden met in 90s Iraq agreed to air anti-

Saudi tapes but request for joints ops unanswered by Iraq

2006 Maliki presented National Reconciliation and Dialogue project to parliament

Offered amnesty to those who had not killed Iraqi civilians Offered money to anyone who had suffered losses in war

2006 Health Ministry recorded over 50,000 Iraqi deaths since 2003 from terrorism and

military clashes

2006 Report CIA officer Drumheller warned Agency before Bush’s Jan 03 State of the

Union and Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech not to use story Iraq had mobile WMD labs

2006 Report CIA officer warned that source of mobile labs story Iraqi named

CURVEBALL held by Germans was unstable and story not verified

2006 Report Germans warned CIA that CURVEBALL was unreliable and refused to

allow CIA access to him

2006 CIA Dir Tenet told Powell it had multiple sources confirming Iraq mobile lab story

while preparing Powell’s UN speech CURVEBALL was only real source

2006 Right before Powell’s speech CIA Dir called CIA officer Drumheller to fact check

speech Told Tenet not to use mobile labs claim

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2007 ISI bombed meeting of Anbar sheikhs in Baghdad killing 13

2014 Al-Nusra commander on Syrian-Iraq border gave allegiance to ISIS

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