1926 Turkey and England agreed on final border between Iraq
and Turkey
1937 Friendship Treaty between
Iraq and Iran Was mostly about setting border between
two
1979 Saddam accused Revolutionary Command Council member
Mashadi and 4
others of
Syrian backed coup plot Meant to remove Saddam’s opponents
1988 Iran and Iraq agreed upon ceasefire under UN Resolution
598
1990 Saddam moved 3 tank divisions to Iraq-Kuwait border
1990 Saddam demanded that Kuwait repay for allegedly
stealing oil and nullify debt from
Iran-Iraq
War
1990 Kuwait cabinet believed Iraq threats were to get it to
continue financial
aid to
Baghdad Thought if there was military action with Iraq would just be
along
border
1990 Sec Def Cheney said US would defend Kuwait Pentagon
later said press
exaggerated
his statement
1991 UN inspectors found hidden Iraqi missile program and
destroyed equipment
1998 UN inspectors went to Iraq Air Force HQ Found document
showing Iraqis used
mustard gas tabun sarin gas
gangrene during Iran-Iraq War in huge quantities Iraqis refused to let
inspectors keep the document
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Pentagon approved CPA’s Vision for Iraq to build a
democratic country
2003 Sadr attacked Iraqi Governing Council as unbelievers Announced
that he was
creating Mahdi
Army to fight US and British occupation
2003 White House answered questions about making Iraq-Africa
uranium claim that
CIA opposed Tried to blame CIA for
including Iraq-Africa uranium claim in Bush State of the Union
2003 Sr White House official asked about problems with WMD
claims in Bush State of
Union said
President not a fact checker
2003 Aid to Natl Sec Adv Rice blamed for pushing CIA to
allow Iraq-Africa uranium
claim into
Bush State of the Union
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 6 US soldiers in Fallujah that complained to news about
extended tours discharged
by White
House
2004 Insurgents offered $285,000 reward for anyone that
could kill PM Allawi
2005 Ayatollah Sistani said violence in Iraq reaching level
of a genocidal war
2005 Meeting on Iraq reconstruction in Jordan said that US
rebuilding program failed to
provide
basic services
2005 Weekly Standard article claimed Iraq considered bin
Laden an intelligence asset in
92 and worked together in terrorist
plots Included conspiracy theory that Iraq behind 1993 World Trade Center
bombing
2007 US captured Al Qaeda liaison to ISI Abu Shaheed who fed
disinformation to US
that ISI
front for Al Qaeda and Abu Masri didn’t exist
2008 Report US forces trying to shut down Iranian supply
networks to militias in Basra
Maysan
Wasit Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq article on going after Iran’s supply lines in Iraq)
2014 IS said all minorities in Mosul had to convert to
Islam, pay religious tax or die
Started
exodus of Christians from city
2015 Basra governor says he would meet demands of protesters
by releasing prisoners
replacing
electricity director
2017 PM Abadi acknowledged Iraqi forces had committed human
rights abuses during
Mosul battle but said they were
individual acts and they would be punished Said any member of security forces
that committed violations during Mosul battle was either ignorant of
consequences or working with IS Nothing happened
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