This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 8

1937 Sadabad Pact between Iraq Iran Turkey Afghanistan agreed to borders non-

            interference regional security

1973 Police Chief Kazzar and 20 coup plotters executed

1982 Saddam survived assassination attempt in Dujail Saddam ordered town

destroyed 1500 residents arrested 150 executed

1991 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors it had 3 secret programs to enrich uranium to

            build a nuclear bomb Before Iraq denied it had any nuclear weapons program

1995 Ceasefire in Kurdish civil war ended as PUK and KDP went back to fighting

            over control of Irbil

2003 Blair told Parliament he believed intelligence that Iraq had WMD

2003 Blair said evidence of Iraq-Niger uranium deal was not based upon fake docs but

            separate intel

2003 White House spokesman said intelligence on Iraq-Niger uranium deal turned

            out to be inaccurate

2003 Wash Post article quoted admin officials saying Iraq-Africa claim shouldn’t

            have been used in State of Uion and story could be wrong

2003 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby met NYTimes’ Miller Said Fmr Amb Wilson’s

            NY Times OpEd part of CIA campaign to absolve itself of bad intel on Iraq

2003 Libby told Miller Fmr Amb Wilson’s report on his trip to Niger never made it

            out of CIA and found evidence Iraq did try to buy uranium

2003 Libby told Miller Natl Intel Est had stronger evidence that Iraq tried to buy

            uranium from Africa

2003 Libby told Miller that Wilson’s wife’s name was Valerie Plame and she worked at

            CIA Miller would later denied she got her name from Libby

2003 Columnist Novak asked DepSecState Armitage why fmr Amb Wilson sent to

Niger to look into Iraq uranium deal Armitage said because his wife worked at CIA

2003 Bush Chief of Staff Rove confirmed to columnist Novak that fmr Amb Wilson’s

            wife sent him to Niger

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

2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded Bulgarian civilians Georgi Lazov and Ivaylo Kepov

2004 US and Iraqi officials said decision to stop 1st Fallujah battle was wrong and city

            now controlled by insurgents

2004 US and Iraqi intel reports said Zarqawi using Fallujah as a base

2005 Iraq constitutional committee started its work

2008 Report Al Qaeda sent foreign fighters to Sudan and Somalia rather than Iraq due to

            downturn in insurgency

(Musings On Iraq article on decline of insurgency)

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