1999 in Iraq
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Incumbents
Events
- 8 January – United States officials admit to using UNSCOM to collect intelligence against the Iraqi government.[1]
- 19 February – The Second Sadr uprising breaks out in majority Shia cities and neighborhoods in Iraq after a Shia cleric, Muhammad al-Sadr is assassinated in Najaf.[2]
- 6 November – A delegation in support of listing the sanctions on Iraq led by British MP George Galloway arrives in Baghdad. The delegation, which left London using a double-decker bus on September 2, 1999, passed through few countries on its route, raising funds for cancer treatment for Iraqi children and highlighting the humanitarian cost of the sanctions.[3][4]
- 17 December – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 is adopted, replacing UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).[5]
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Births
- 1 January –Hasan Abdulkareem Jabbar, footballer[7]
- 1 January – Ahmed Farhan Mushref, footballer[7]
- 18 August – Hussein Ammar Ameen, footballer[7]
Deaths
- 19 February – Muhammad al-Sadr, Shia cleric (b.1943)[2]
- 3 August – Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, poet (b.1926)
- 3 August – Mohammed Hadid, politician. (b.1907)[8]
- 11 October – Rafi Daham al-Tikriti, former director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.(b.1937)