1921 American consul in Baghdad wrote that Faisal would
become King of Iraq
even though
he was unpopular in the country
1973 Police Chief Kazzar and 20 other coup plotters found
guilty and given death
sentence
1973 Baath Regional Congress expanded membership to
accommodate Saddam
supporters
1987 UN Resolution 598 called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War
1991 Iraq Foreign Min Hussein told UN that it would make a
declaration of its
nuclear
program
1991 Hussein said Iraq had not violated Non-Proliferation
Treaty or IAEA safeguards
1991 Iraq’s concealment committee met Decided to reveal
details about nuke program
after inspectors
found site
1991 Concealment committee decided to secretly destroy WMD
programs and
materials to
hide them from inspectors
1991 Would prove long term problem because Iraq could never
fully prove what it
destroyed
and what it was hiding to inspectors
1997 Turkey withdrew its forces from Kurdistan after killing
over 2,000 PKK fighters
2003 CPA suspended Iraq’s old banking laws as part of reform
program
2003 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn't go to war with Iraq
because it had dramatic new
evidence of
its WMD programs
2003 White House admitted Bush’s State of Union claim Iraq
tried to buy uranium
from Africa
shouldn't have been used
2003 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told White House
spokesman Fleischer fmr Amb
Wilson’s
wife sent him to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 SCIRI dropped objection to joining Iraqi Governing
Council after lobbying by
UN
2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report on UK
dossier said was not sexed
up by Blair
govt
2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said Blair govt didn’t
mislead parliament but
misstated
some of the intel on Iraq’s WMD
2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said claim Iraq could
use WMD in 45 min
should not
have been so prominent in dossier
2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report said UK dossier
on Iraq WMD
should’ve
been more qualified on story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa
2003 State Dept intel agency sent memo to DepSec State
Armitage originally from
June that
said Iraq-Niger docs were fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 Gen Casey told Bush 70% of Fallujah Brigade had joined
insurgency
2004 Sen Intel Comm found major judgements in Oct 02 Natl
Intel Est on Iraq’s
WMD and
nuke program were overstated and generally not supported
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel claims Iraq had WMD and
programs larger than
before Gulf
War were overstated
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US had evidence Iraq buying dual use
equipment Uncertain
Iraq had
destroyed its WMD stocks after Gulf War
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel didn’t have much good
info on Iraq’s WMD
and nuke
programs after UN inspections ended in 1998
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel suffered from group think
Assumed Iraq had
WMD Assumed
everything it did was to expand those programs
2004 Senate Intel Comm report on pre-war intel found that
all of CIA’s claims about
Iraq
renewed nuke program were wrong and weak to begin with
2004 Sen Intel Comm found CIA justified to claim Iraq-Al
Qaeda might have
cooperated
based upon pre-war intel
2005 Iraq and Iran’s Defense Ministries signed military
cooperation agreement
2005 Report Human Rights Min said Iraqi forces carried out
random arrests not using
warrants
torturing and abusing prisoners
2005 Report Human Rights Min official said Iraqi forces
conducting extrajudicial
killings
and govt not doing anything about it
2005 Report $8.8 bil went missing in Iraqi ministries during
CPA period 03-05
2006 Bush said Americans were wondering if US could win Iraq
war Said US was
winning
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 Gen Casey given investigative report on Marines killing
Iraqi civilians in Haditha
2006 Integrity Commission head Radi said weak institutions
and lack of punishment led
to uncontrolled
corruption
2008 Maliki said he wanted a memo of understanding on
withdrawal of US forces instead
of a Status
of Forces Agreement which was stalled
(Musings
On Iraq article on negotiations over SOFA)
2008 Female suicide bomber hit market in Baquba 23rd female
suicide bombing of the
year
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2008 Report 94% decline in attacks by ISI 25 in Nov 07 vs
334 Nov 06
(Musings
On Iraq article on ISI attacks)
2013 Pres Barzani visited Baghdad to try to resolve problems
with Maliki
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