This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 9

1962 Iraqi planes bombed Turkish border post during operation against Kurdish

            rebels killing 2 Turkish soldiers

1963 Soviet Union accused Arif govt of genocide against Kurds

1973 Another 36 coup plotters tried including Regional Command members Samarriea

            and Fadil and given death sentences

1978 Former Prime Minister after 1968 Baath coup Naif shot in London by Iraqi agents on

            orders from Saddam

1980 Iraq backed failed military coup in Iran vs Khomeini

1982 Pres Rafsanjani said Iran would accept peace if 1975 border treaty retained

            $100 bil in reparations Saddam tried as war criminal

1988 Iraq recaptured 23 mountain peaks in Mawet area of Kurdistan

1990 US Amb to Iraq Glaspie said that US working on releasing 2^nd half of

            $1 bil loan guarantees to Baghdad

1996 UN Sec Council asked US for info about Iraq smuggling to get around sanctions

1997 KDP accused PUK of breaking ceasefire attacking its positions with help of PKK

2003 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks told Congress violence in Iraq meant no US troop

            withdrawal anytime soon

2003 Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq was costing US around $3.9 bil a month

2003 Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq war wasn't because new evidence about Iraq’s

            WMD but because saw Iraq differently after 9/11

2003 Fmr State Dept Military Intel officer Thielman told Congress US govt

            misrepresented intel about Iraq threat

2004 Iraqi defector Zubaidi claimed INC embellished reports of defectors about

            Iraq’s WMD INC denied story

2004 Bush said everyone believed Iraq had stocks of WMD and Saddam wanted those

            WMD programs

2005 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri sent Iraq strategy letter to Zarqawi Expel US Declare

            emirate that would become caliphate Expand to other nations

2005 Zawahiri also told Zarqawi he should include more Iraqis in Al Qaeda in Iraq

2005 Zawahiri warned Zarqawi attacks upon Muslim civilians could cost him heart and

            minds and support

2006 Maliki announced Op Together Forward 2 would start to secure Baghdad after 1^st

failed in days

(Musings On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)

2006 Militiamen in Jihad, Baghdad pulled Sunnis from cars and executed at least 50

2006 Article on State Dept report on Interior Min Said corruption human rights abuses

            sectarian violence connections to insurgents and militias undermined ministry

2006 US officials said Jadriya prison in Baghdad run by Mahmoud Waeli Badr’s intel

            head and renegade faction of Interior Ministry

2012 KRG said it would barter oil for refined products with Turkey

2014 Human Rights Watch recorded 61 Sunni civilians killed by Hashd in last

            month

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