1926 Turkey and Britain signed treaty setting Turkey-Iraq
border UK agreed to
give Turkey
10% of Mosul oil revenues in return
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on setting Iraq-Turkey
border)
1940 PM Gaylani made overture to Germany with Justice Min
Shawkat meeting German
ambassador
to Turkey von Papen
1940 Justice Min Shawkat told Ger Amb von Papen Iraq wanted
Germany to stop Italian
imperialism
from spreading in Middle East and to support pan-Arabism instead
1940 Germ Amb Papen said Iraq should contribute to war vs
England and Shawkat
said that
would happen
1960 Islamic Party issued statement warning against
Communist activities in Iraq
1983 Tariq Aziz returned from trip to Egypt to improve
relations and ensure Cairo
would
continue to supply Iraq with ammunition for the war
2002 Talks between Iraq and UN in Vienna breakdown over new
weapons inspections
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Supporters of DefSec Rumsfeld leaked CENTCOM doc to
NYTimes on invasion
plans to
use air strikes Special Forces CIA operatives for covert ops
(Musings
On Iraq article on arguments over US Iraq invasion plan)
2003 US police training center in Ramadi bombed 7 police
killed 40 wounded
2003 CIA Dir Tenet complained to NSC about Iraq-Africa
uranium deal getting into
Bush’s
State of the Union speech
2003 NSC said DepNatSecAdv Hadley forgot CIA had pulled
Iraq-Africa story from
previous
Bush speech Tenet didnt read State of Union
2003 CIA Dir Tenet said he and NSC responsible for
Iraq-Africa uranium story getting
into Bush’s
State of Union
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 Allawi govt announced amnesty for insurgents
2004 Report Zarqawi’s bombing moved him from margins of
insurgency to the center
2008 Head of Islamic Party in Fallujah escaped assassination
attempt in campaign
against the
party
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