1943 Mustafa Barzani led
rebellion against govt Iraqi troops backed by British
airplanes
suppressed revolt by Oct 1945
1961 UK sent troops to newly independent Kuwait to protect
it from Gen. Qasim’s call
that it be
annexed
1985 Def Dept official said that US should watch technology
exports to Iraq because
they could
be used for its nuclear weapons program
1986 Iraq escalated air strikes on Iran’s economic
infrastructure
1988 Iraq For Min Aziz admitted that Baghdad used chemical
weapons in the Iran-Iraq
War but
said Iran started using them first
1995 Iraq told UN inspectors it had a biological weapons
program and made anthrax and
botulinum
1989-90 Denied it weaponized agents
1995 Seemed like Iraq had come clean about all of its WMD
and nuclear weapons
programs to
inspectors
1996 Richard Butler became head UN weapons inspector
replacing Rolf Ekeus Butler
was more
confrontation with Iraqis
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Bush gave speech saying US had right to pre-emptive war
2003 Sistani issued fatwa rejecting CPA’s plans for experts
to draft new constitution
2003 Mosque in Fallujah bombed killing 5 wounding 4
2004 CIA official said agency was constantly told to re-do
assessments that said no
Iraq-Al
Qaeda connection by White House
2006 Truck bomb Sadr City killed 62 wounded 120
2006 Sunni female parliamentarian and 8 bodyguards kidnapped
in Baghdad
2014 IS released recording of Baghdadi declaring a new
caliphate
2014 IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani released recording
announcing the
Islamic
State from Syria to Iraq
View the Iraq History Timelines
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