This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 8

1933 Iraqi army began executing all Assyrian males captured in Bekher

            mountains in Ninewa

1933 Mayor of Zakho began disarming Assyrians in town

1969 Iraqi army destroyed Kurdish village of Dakan near Mosul

1979 5 members of Rev Command Council expelled coup plotters executed by Baath

            party leaders Saddam led session

1979 Saddam appeared on TV to explain coup plot

1979 Assad protested and demanded to see evidence Syria behind coup plot Sent

Foreign Minister and chief of staff to Baghdad Rebuffed by Saddam Ended unity talks Saddam had opposed unity fearing that it would sideline him and give more power to Bakr

1984 Germany announced restrictions on sale of chemical manufacturing equipment

            to Iraq after reports used to make WMD

(Musings On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)

1988 UN said ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War would start Aug 20 effectively ending the war

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)

1988 Govt began military campaign in southern marshes to wipe out insurgents and anti-

            govt tribes in area

1990 Iraq announced merger of Kuwait and Iraq 

1990 Pres Bush said a line had been drawn in the sand at the Saudi-Kuwait border to

            stop anymore Iraqi advances

1995 Govt cut phone lines to other countries Put Republican and Special Republican

Guard on alert Put units on Baghdad streets Saddam Fedayeen put on Jordan-Iraq highway after found out Hussein Kamal defected to Jordan

1995 Iraq claimed Hussein Kamal responsible for hiding weapons programs from UN

inspectors after he defected to Jordan Iraq admitted that it weaponized biological weapons to UN inspectors Hussein Kamal’s defection undermined Iraq’s program to hide its WMD and nuclear programs from UN inspectors

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

1996 UN agreed to plan for Oil For Food Program

2002 House Majority Leader Armey said that if US didn’t have provocation it would

            not have international support for action vs Iraq

2002 Iraqi opposition met in Washington to talk about political transition in post-

            Saddam Iraq INC wanted exiles to endorse Chalabi as leader

2003 IAEA Found no Iraqi nuclear weapons program after 1991

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

2004 Arrest warrant for murder issued for one of Saddam’s lawyers

2004 Arrest warrant for Ahmed Chalabi for counterfeiting dinars and nephew Salim

            Chalabi for murder of Fin Min official

2005 Saddam fired his entire legal team at his trial

2005 Constitutional committee ended its work Negotiations over final draft began within

leadership council of committee Shiite and Kurdish members of constitution committee made more changes to constitution with Sunnis often excluded

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on the drafting of Iraq’s constitution)

2008 Report UN survey found only 4% of Iraqi refugees wanted to return to Iraq Was

            down from 14% in Nov 2007 Were concernedwith security

(Musings On Iraq article on refugee survey)

2014 US began air strikes against IS in Iraq

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