“Soon after the restoration of full diplomatic relations [with Iraq, on November 26, 1984], the Americans sent a CIA liaison team to Baghdad to deliver satellite photos and other intelligence gleaned from U.S. AWACS surveillance aircraft based in neighboring Saudi Arabia. The intelligence liaison between Langley, Virginia, the CIA headquarters, and Baghdad was soon established […]
11/26/1984
“…on November 26, 1984, just days after his reelection, [President Ronald] Reagan restored full diplomatic relations with Iraq. This move came under extreme influence from U.S. business interests but against the advice of many within Reagan’s administration.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Pages 158-159 […]
11/15/1984
In The Iraq War Reader, Joost R. Hiltermann wrote: “In November 1984, shortly after Reagan’s reelection, diplomatic relations between the Washington and Baghdad were restored.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 43 […]
11/15/1984
“Despite the fact that the United States had openly condemned Iraq’s use of lethal chemical weapons against Iran, diplomatic relations between the two countries [U.S. and Iraq] were fully restored in November 1984. (They had not existed since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.)” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ricardo […]
11/15/1984
“In November 1984 warmer U.S.-Iraqi relations resulted in the full restoration of diplomatic relations and American companies were encouraged to participate in the construction of Iraq’s new pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia to provide Baghdad with new outlets for its oil sales.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
11/6/1984
2nd Term -Ronald W. Reagan – Republican president elected -George H.W. Bush – Vice President – […]
10/25/1984
On October 25, 1984, Secretary of State George Shultz “warned against America acting as a global Hamlet while terrorism was on the rise. ‘The magnitude of the threat posed by terrorism is so great that we cannot afford to confront it with halfhearted and poorly organized measures,’ Shultz warned.” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, […]
10/17/1984
In a speech on October 17, 1984, Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld said he “summarized my conviction that the United States and free people everywhere needed to come to grips with terrorism as a preeminent threat of the future: ‘Increasingly, terrorism is not random nor the work of isolated madmen. Rather, it is state-sponsored, by […]
10/1/1984
“In [June 21] 1995, the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] Director David Satcher, wrote a letter to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In it he stated that the CDC shipped a number of ‘viruses, retroviruses, bacteria and fungi to Iraq from October 1, 1984 thru October 13, 1993.’ ” […]
10/1/1984
“Beginning in [October 1] 1984, the Centers for Disease Control began providing Saddam’s Iraq with biological materials–including viruses, retroviruses, bacteria, fungi, and even tissue that was infected with bubonic plague. Among the materials that were sent were several types of West Nile virus and plague-infected mouse tissue smears.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House […]