This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 12

1914 British forces in Fao launched reconnaissance in force near Salhan, Basra

1927 Kurdish MP Rowanduzi said Shiites and Kurds both opposed govt conscription for army

1963 Baath founder Aflaq went to Iraq to solve internal Baath dispute

1968 68 coup member Nasir al-Hani special adv to Pres Bakr assassinated

1991 Govt and Kurds agreed to ceasefire Iraq would end blockade of Kurdistan and Peshmerga

would withdraw to Irbil

1997 Iraq expelled 6 US weapons inspectors claiming they were spies Almost entire inspection staff

withdrawn as a result

1997 UN Resolution 1137 demanded Iraq allow full and unhindered weapons inspections

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

1997 Wall St Journal op ed by David Wurmser called for US supporting INC and revolt in Iraq

1998 Iraq Amb to UN told military strike impending if did not agree to work with weapons

inspectors again

2001 INC presented Iraqi defector Lami who claimed Iraq training terrorists at Salman Pak and had

anthrax

2002 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks said if US didn't act on Iraq it could acquire and use a nuclear

weapon

2002 Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith told Foreign Sec Straw that he wasn’t sure UN Resolution 1441

would give legal basis for war with Iraq Straw told Goldsmith he thought 1441 meant Iraq had to comply or else

2002 NYTimes article claimed Iraq bought anti-WMD drugs as sign that it had WMD and was going

to use it

2003 Zarqawi bombed Italian police in Nasiriyah killing 19 Italians 15 civilians and wounding

around 100

2003 Bush decided US should turn over sovereignty to Iraq early against CPA plan

2004 Marines attacked southern Fallujah 2^nd Battle of Fallujah

2004 Sec of State Powell told Bush and Blair weren’t enough ground forces in Iraq to secure country

2005 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Rumsfeld Iraq might take 9-13 yrs

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

2006 AP estimated avg of 45 killed per day in Baghdad UN estimated 100 violent deaths per day in

Iraq

2006 120 Albu Alwan tribesmen following Sheikh Raad Sabah al-Alwani volunteered for Anbar

police

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)

(Musings On Iraq book review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)

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