#iraq Oct 9 2014 Report Corruption undermined ISF Commands bought and sold Soldiers extorted Gas spare parts weapons rations stolen and sold musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#iraq Oct 9 2013 50 families fled Baquba dist central Diyala due to ISI Blew up 18 homes in Kirkuk musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#iraq Oct 9 2013 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it was creating popular committees to help with security Said ISF couldn’t protect population Warned of civil war musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2013 Report IS started new Soldiers’ Harvest campaign in Jul Goal was attacking ISF and establishing control of areas Was trying to expand from Diyala and Salahaddin into Ninewa Tried to cut off ISF supply lines to Mosul musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Oct 9 2012 Intl Energy Agency predicted Iraq would produce 6.1 mil/bar/day of oil by 2020 Was half of what Oil Min predicted Iraq only avg 2.9 mil/bar/day by 2020 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2012 Report Iraq and US said ISI twice as large as it was in 2011 Helped by breaking former members out of prison Avg 140 attacks/wk up from 74 attacks/wk musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 2 days 75 Christian families fled Mosul after 5 killed musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 Sadrist MP killed by IED in Baghdad 1000s protested his death Sadrists first blamed ISF and US Led to nighttime clash with Mahdi Army Later blamed gangs which usually meant Special Groups musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 PM Maliki said he would disband any Tribal Support Council working with a political party after ISCI criticized groups Were created to support Maliki before elections musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2006 Interior Min Bolani announced new uniforms to be issued to police Said couldn’t be copied Meant to distinguish police from death squads dressed as police Wouldn’t stop police in death squads musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-maliki-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2003 Bush gave NatSecAdv Rice oversight of reconstruction program Congress then barred Rice from that duty musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 Sen Kerry during Senate debate said after 9/11 no one could be certain that WMD wouldn’t be used against US or allies in Mideast Sen Clinton said that if Iraq left unchecked its WMD and nuke programs would grow musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 Energy Dept official told Guardian he didn’t believe aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for nuke program Fmr UN inspector Albright said CIA pushed aluminum tubes story while nuclear experts disagreed with it musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 Ex-CIA agents complained to press that Bush admin used slanted intel to make case against Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pre-2003-i...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 Italian reporter gave US Embassy in Rome copies of documents on alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal Were found to be fakes CIA Station Chief in Rome misplaced documents and were never sent to CIA HQ musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Intel Comm Iraq would only use WMD if regime was threatened musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Oct 9 1992 Report After Kuwait invasion Iraq defaulted on loans backed by US Meant US had to pay debts to bank partly owned by Iraq Justice Dept warned payments would be helping Iraq but US made them anyway musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/post-gulf-...

#Iraq Oct 9 1973 Iraqi Su-7 jets bombed 2 Israeli columns in Syria’s Golan Heights Lost 2 planes Yom Kippur War musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-histo...

#iraq Oct 9 1970 Tikriti removed as VP under Pres Bakr Retired from army Made Amb to Spain to get him out of Iraq Orchestrated by Saddam Tikriti refused Flew back to Baghdad to confront Saddam Was arrested at airport Sent into exile in Algeria musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...

#Iraq Oct 9 1969 Baath announced language and cultural concessions to Kurds as part of talks with Mullah Mustafa Barzani musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_...