This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 7

1920 Iraqi rebels led by Jameel al-Midfai reached Mosul with about 1,000 men

1941 British forces crossed from Iraq into Syria attempting to capture German

            diplomat Dr. Grobba

1967 Iraq broke diplomatic relations with U.S. after defeat in Arab-Israeli War

1975 Iran-Iraq agreed on Shatt al-Arab border Shah would stop arming Kurdish

            revolt neither would support opponents of each other

1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha to stop Saddam’s

bomb program Destroyed facility

1983 Iraq offered ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected by Iran

1984 Soviets delivered new missiles to Iraq which Baghdad said it would use

            against Iran’s oil industry

1991 UN began taking over camps run by US military to help Kurds following 91

            uprising

2003 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation

2003 Sadr travelled to Iran to talk with Iranian officials and met Ayatollah Haeri

2003 ISCI threatened to boycott CPA’s Iraqi Governing Council

2003 CPA Order 12 ended all of Iraq’s tariffs leading country to be flooded with cheap

            imports closing down many Iraqi businesses

2003 DIA chief Adm Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD sites in Iraq in 2002 but

            didn’t mean Iraqi didn’t have WMD program

2003 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD

2003 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq trailers were not WMD mobile

            labs as suspected

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2003 White House spokesman said WMD would be found

2003 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq was producing or had

            stocks of WMD

2006 Zarqawi killed by U.S. F-16 jet north of Baquba

2006 Natl Sec Adv Rice said White House agreed on Iraq policy Privately Rice working

            on new one

2008 Poland announced that it would withdraw its forces from Iraq by Oct 08

2009 Inter Min said it would investigate torture charges in Maysan and Qadisiyah

            Nothing happened

2010 Oil Min said oil production would reach 12 mil/bar/day by 2017 Didn’t happen

2011 Maliki’s 100 day deadline to reform ministries ended with no changes Was to

            appease protesters

2011 Army started withdrawing from Fallujah as part of deal with Anbar govt to

            pull out of urban areas

2012 Maliki welcomed new breakaway party that had 7 MPs that didn’t sign no

            confidence vote against him

2013 Sadrists State of Law and SIIC agreed on new provincial govt in Maysan Sadrists

            would retain governorship

2014 ISIS stormed Anbar Univ in Ramadi taking hostages

2014 US warned Baghdad that ISIS moving forces from Syria to attack Mosul

2014 US wanted Peshmerga to move into eastern Mosul Pres Barzani offered Maliki

said no

2014 Maliki told US 9 brigades would be sent to Mosul US said wouldn’t arrive in

            time

2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of staff took over

            defense of Mosul

2014 Badr said it would protect Askari shrine in Samarra against insurgent threat

2015 KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani accused Baghdad of breaking constitution by not

            giving Kurdistan budget payments

2016 Protests in Dhi Qar and Baghdad calling for reform

2016 Abadi said people would be arrested for abusing displaced in Fallujah op

2016 UN called on Baghdad to protect displaced from abuses by govt forces

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