1917 1st Battle of Ramadi started Ottomans forced
British to retreat
1921 Iraq council of state
declared Faisal monarch of Iraq
1979 Pres Bakr resigned from the
Revolutionary Command Council citing health Saddam took over
council
1991 Iran warned that Iraqi forces about to launch new
military operation into southern marshes against
rebels and displaced
1991 UK intel report said Iraq tried 4 methods to enrich
uranium for its nuclear program and might have
made enough for 1 bomb
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1991 Pres Bush said that coup vs Saddam might be best way to
assure that Iraq didn’t continue with its
nuclear weapons program
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2003 Rice called CIA Dir Tenet telling him he was
responsible for Iraq-Africa uranium story being used in
Bush’s State of the Union
2003 CIA Dir Tenet issued statement that he was responsible
for Iraq-Africa uranium deal getting into
Bush’s State of Union Said CIA only
had fragmentary intel on Iraq trying to buy uranium from Africa
2003 Dir Tenet also said that CIA had Iraq-Africa uranium
story stricken from previous Bush speeches
2003 CIA officials quoted in Wash Post that they tried to
dissuade British from using Iraq-Africa uranium
story
2003 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Cheney Chief of Staff
Libby he talked with columnist Novak and he
was going to write fmr Amb Wilson’s
wife sent him to Niger Part of plan to discredit Wilson
2003 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Time reporter Cooper fmr
Amb Wilson not sent to Niger by CIA Dir
Tenet or Cheney but his wife who
worked at CIA
2003 Columnist Novak called CIA to confirm that Valerie
Wilson sent her husband to Niger CIA tried to
stop story and not mention her name
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer and Comm Dir Bartlett
told reporter Fmr Amb Wilson found little
on his trip to Niger and wasn’t
sent by Dir Tenet
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Rice told reporter Natl Intel Estimate said aluminum
tubes Iraq tried to buy were for
nuke program Blamed CIA Dir Tenet
for Bush’s State of the Union using fake Iraq-African uranium deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 After protests by Iraqi police US agreed to reduce its
forces at police stations in Fallujah to try to stop
attacks on them
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2006 Amb Khalizad said hadn’t seen security improvement from
Baghdad security plan Op Together
Forward yet
2006 Brookings’ Pollack told House committee not enough US
and Iraqi forces to secure Baghdad during
Op Together Forward
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2007 CIA Dep Dir Natl Intl Fingar testified to House saying
PM Maliki only taken small steps to unify Iraq
Said sectarian violence polarized
politics Shiite parties not united Services below prewar levels Said Surge
effective violence but not enough to lead to reconciliation
2007 Ret Gen Landry from Natl Intel Council said ISF
infiltrated and lacked logistics
2018 4th day of protests in different parts of
Basra Blocked road to Rumaila and West Qurna oil fields
South Oil Company office occupied 1
killed by police shooting into crowd Protest in Dhi Qar for electricity and
solidarity march in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on new round of protests)
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