This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 13

1929 PM Sadoun shot himself due to criticism he faced over his performance

1963 Baath National Guard commander Wandawi began bombing Rasheed Camp while Guard

rampaged through Baghdad

1963 Baath Sec Gen Sadi said party run by new 15 member council headed by Bakr

1980 Iraq launched new attack in Khuzistan province southern Iran Attacked Dezful but stopped

after only a few miles Iran counterattacked and recaptured Alvan Shush Naderi Iraq attacked Ahwaz but got stuck

1981 UN Resolution 36/27 again criticized Israel’s destruction of Osirak nuclear reactor and said

Israel should pay for damages

1982 Saddam ran informal referendum backed by pro-Saddam marches

1986 Rev Command Council meeting believed Israel was behind Reagan selling weapons to Iran in

Iran-Contra scandal

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

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

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

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

1991 Saddam replaced Interior Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid with Wathban Ibrahim Hassan

1992 Turkey began withdrawing troop after month long operation in norther Kurdistan against PKK

1995 KDP and PUK restarted US brokered peace talks to end civil war but came to no agreement

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1998 Tariq Aziz told CNN UN inspectors spying for US and Israel

1998 UN chief Annan sent letter to Saddam saying he had to cooperate with inspectors to avoid a

US-UK military strike Annan told Iraq that if cooperated with inspectors Security Council would discuss Iraq’s disarmament to move towards ending sanctions

1998 Countries told Iraq that if it didn’t back down on inspectors it would be hit by US within 24

hours

1998 Iraq sent letter to UN blaming US for blocking review of Iraq’s disarmament Said because of

UN chief Annan it would cooperate with inspectors again

1998 Tariq Aziz went on CNN to say that Iraq would let inspectors return US B-52 bombers were

only about an hour away from bombing Iraq Clinton recalled them

(Musings On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)

2002 Iraq accepted UN Resolution 1441 to allow UN weapons inspectors

2002 Blair said that goal of resolution was disarming Iraq not regime change

2002 Blair told UK cabinet that 1441 meant military action could be taken against Iraq in case of

violations without a 2^nd resolution

2003 US forces launched Op Iron Hammer to hunt down insurgents in Baghdad

2005 US forces found 173 prisoners in secret prison in Baghdad run by Badr unit of Interior Ministry

Prisoners were tortured

2005 18 Sunni men found handcuffed blindfolded and shot in Baghdad

2006 Bush met Iraq Study Group Said Iraq part of ideological struggle in world Said US needed to

back Maliki Group didn’t think Bush knew what victory in Iraq meant besides platitudes

2006 Iraq Study Group met with US Cmdr Iraq Gen Casey who said Iraqis had to eventually take

control of own affairs Casey told Iraq Study Group that sectarian violence problem in Iraq but Maliki only talked about Baathists

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

2006 Iraq Study Group met CIA Dir Hayden who said Maliki govt only talked about Baathists not

sectarian violence Hayden told Iraq Study Group stable and democratic Iraq may not be possible

2006 Dep Cmdr US forces in Anbar said Baghad wasn’t paying police in province and Anbaris felt

Baghdad neglecting them Maliki govt claimed ghost police hindered paying forces

2006 Weekly Standard had two OpEds by Frederick Kagan criticizing Bush admin for not sending

enough troops to Iraq and calling for temporary troop surge to stabilize country Kagan helped draft plan that would lead to Surge

2013 Fallujah’s mayor killed by a sniper

2015 Peshmerga freed Sinjar town

2016 Iraqi forces freed Nimrod Ninewa

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