This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 6

1991 Baghdad demanded Peshmerga disband close Kurdish radio stations end

contacts with foreign govts Kurds demanded democracy talks over Kirkuk offered to give up heavy weapons close radio stations end contacts with foreign govts

1992 Iraq refused to allow UN inspectors into Agriculture Min causing a crisis

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson NY Times OpEd said Bush exaggerated about Iraq-Niger

            uranium story in State of Union

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson sent to Niger by CIA to investigate Iraq-Niger uranium story

            and found no evidence

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson said he never saw fake Iraq-Niger docs but Cheney’s office

            should’ve been sent report on his trip

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson overestimated impact of his visit to discredit Iraq-Niger

            uranium story Actually increased questions

2003 Fmr Amb Wilson on Meet The Press said Cheney should’ve gotten report

            on his trip to Niger

2003 Cheney questioned Wilson’s OpEd and asked why he was sent to Niger

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2003 US said it would release Turkish Special Forces it arrested in Sulaymaniya

2004 Blair told Parliament that he didn’t know what happened to Iraq’s WMD Said

            they could have been hidden or destroyed

2004 Report 2000 CIA started program to contact relatives of Iraqi WMD scientists

            that lived in west to try to collect intel

2004 Relatives of Iraq scientists said Iraq had no WMD programs Intel not included

            in reports or passed to White House

2005 Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed it kidnapped and executed Egypt ambassador to Iraq

            Ihab al-Sherif

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