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1999 in Iraq

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The following lists events that happened during 1999 in Iraq.

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  • 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 lead 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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  • 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.[6]
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