1999 in Iraq

none 1999 The following lists events that happened during 1999 in Iraq. Incumbents President: Saddam Hussein Prime Minister: Saddam Hussein Vice President: Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf Taha Yassin Ramadan Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Events 8 January – United States officials admit to using UNSCOM to collect intelligence against the Iraqi government.Lippman Thomas W. Gellman Barton 8 January 1999 U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/stories/unscom010899.htm 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.Hasan Harith 2021-11-26 The Roots of the Sadrist Movement: Muhammad al-Sadr, Religious Authority, and Sociopolitical Practice https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei/2021/00000075/00000003/art00002;jsessionid=s3pimv5uh9h1.x-ic-live-01 The Middle East Journal 75 3 365–385 10.3751/75.3.11 subscription 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.BBC News UK Politics MP boards bus bound for Baghdad https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/439760.stm 2025-02-24 news.bbc.co.ukCommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-109shrg24445 CORRUPTION IN THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM: REACHING A CONSENSUS ON UNITED NATIONS REFORM 2005-10-31 Government Publishing Office English 17 December – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 is adopted, replacing UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).S/RES/1284 (1999) https://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/Keyresolutions/sres99-1284.htm 2025-02-21 www.un.org Date Unknown Eighteen Thousand Iraqis are turned down at the Iraqi-Saudi border and not allowed to perform Hajj, due to the UN not releasing Iraqi funds designated for their travel expenses.مباحثات سعودية عراقية بشأن الحج https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2001/1/14/%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC 2025-02-21 الجزيرة نت ar Births 1 January –Hasan Abdulkareem Jabbar, footballerFIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce14/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf Fifa.org 1 January – Ahmed Farhan Mushref, footballer 18 August – Hussein Ammar Ameen, footballer Deaths 19 February – Muhammad al-Sadr, Shia cleric (b.1943) 3 August – Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, poet (b.1926) 3 August – Mohammed Hadid, politician. (b.1907)1999-08-06 Mohammed Hadid, 92, an Iraqi Who Long Backed Democracy https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/06/world/mohammed-hadid-92-an-iraqi-who-long-backed-democracy.html 2025-02-24 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 11 October – Rafi Daham al-Tikriti, former director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.(b.1937) References 1999 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Iraq Category:1990s in Iraq Category:1999 by country Category:1999 in Asia