1924 MP Chalabi rejected quotas in new parliament for
minorities claiming
everyone
would be represented
1928 Red Line Agreement allowed British Dutch French US
Turkish oil companies to
jointly control Turkish Petroleum
Company would lead to Iraq Petroleum Company
1982 Iraq claimed it crushed Iranian Op Ramadan to seize
Basra
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1983 Iraqi army took 8,000 men from Barzani clan and
executed them
1990 King Fahd and Pres Mubarak tried to mediate between
Iraq and Kuwait Kuwit emir
told his representative to not give
into any Iraqi demands at meeting in Saudi Arabia between 2 nations
1990 AsstSecState Kelly told House US had no defense treaty
with Gulf States and
didn’t take position on border
disputes or OPEC Said US would be concerned if Iraq invaded Kuwait but had no
treaties with it
1990 Pentagon said it was committed to individual and
collective defense of its allies in
the Gulf
2002 Iraq Foreign Minister Sabri said Bagdhad rejected
return of UN inspectors Said
they would
just collect intel for U.S. strikes
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Bush said US goal was regime change but denied any war
plans were on his desk
2002 Senate Foreign Relations Comm began hearing on Iraq
invasion
2002 Rumsfeld told Senate Comm time helped Saddam erode
sanctions and spread
terrorism
2002 NSA had drill on Iraq Found it had little signals intel
on country
2002 Report Iraq working on nuclear program quoted fmr UN
inspector Kay and INC
defectors
Hamza and Haideri May 02 Haideri labeled fabricator by DIA
2002 INC defector ex-nuke scientist Hamza testified to
Senate Foreign Relations
Comm claiming
Iraq only lacked uranium to build nuke bomb in 1994
2002 Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie interviewed on CNN
Said Bush was going to
invade Iraq because of WMD and its
ties to terrorism including 9/11 Accused CIA of covering up Iraq’s involvement in
9/11
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
2003 Sadr announced 10,000 man Islamic army being formed in
Najaf
2003 Report several Iraqi scientists interviewed by US said
Saddam had not restarted
its nuclear
or WMD programs
2003 National Sec Adv Rice said international intel agencies
all agreed with US that Iraq
had WMD US
would prove right that Saddam was threat to world
2003 Iraq Survey Group head Kay testified to Senate
2003 US forces found Iraqi jets buried at Taqadum airbase
west of Baghdad Helped
explain why
Iraqi air force didn't fight during invasion
(Musings
On Iraq article on why Iraqi air force didn’t fight during 2003 invasion)
2004 US arrested Sadrist Sheikh Hasnawi in Karbala Mahdi
Army kidnapped police
in Najaf in
response
2006 Displacement Min said 182,1854 had been displaced since
Askari shrine bombing
in Feb 2006
2006 Police in 15 SUVs kidnapped 25 people from Iraqi
American Chamber of
Commerce and Rawi telephone company
in central Baghdad Never seen again
2008 Police raided Sahwa officer in Kut arrested 3 Sahwa that
formed political party 2
months
before provincial elections
(Musings
On Iraq article on govt crackdown on Sahwa)
2008 US and Iraq missed deadline to sign Status of Forces
Agreement with Iraq (SOFA)
US wanted
residual military force to stay in Iraq after official withdrawal
(Musings
On Iraq article on missed deadline)
2012 France’s Total signed contracts for two oil blocks in
KRG
2015 Protest in Baghdad Basra Najaf over lack of electricity
Called for Electricity Min
to step down
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