1996 in Iraq

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The following lists events that happened during 1996 in Iraq .

Incumbents

• President: Saddam Hussein
• Prime Minister: Saddam Hussein
• Vice President:
  • Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf
  • Taha Yassin Ramadan
  • Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri

Events

• 24 March –Iraqi parliamentary election are held, the Ba'ath Party wins 161 seats out of 250, with significant gains to independent candidates as well as the appointment of 30 MPs to represent Kurdistan. ^[1]
• 20 May – Iraq accepts and signs the revised Oil-for-Food Programme. ^[2]
• 31 August – at the request of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership, Iraqi troops captured the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan held city of Erbil and the Battle of Erbil took place as part of the Kurdish Civil War. ^[3]
• 3 September– a US cruise missile airstrike campaign codenamed Operation Desert Strike is launched in retaliation of the Iraqi army involvement in the Kurdish Civil War. ^{[3] [4]}
• 10 December – The Oil-for-Food Programme implementation begins with the first Iraqi oil export. ^[2]

Births

Aymen Hussein

• 10 January – Tara Fares, model and influencer.(d.1918) ^[5]
• 19 January – Ali Yousif Hashim, footballer. ^[6]
• 22 March – Aymen Hussein, footballer. ^[6]
• 25 May – Sherko Kareem Lateef, footballer. ^[6]
• 19 August – Ahmed Basil Fadhil, footballer. ^[6]
• 16 November – Manaf Younis, footballer. ^[6]
• 6 December – Mohammed Qasim Majid, footballer. ^[6]
• 22 December – Bashar Resan Bonyan, footballer. ^[6]

Deaths

• 23 February – Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law (b.1960) ^[7]
• 23 February – Saddam Kamel, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law (b.1960) ^[7]
• 11 March – Zaki al-Sarraf, journalist an poet.
• 15 October – Toma Tomas, Iraqi Assyrian politician (b.1924)
• 22 October – Mustafa Jamal al-Din, scholar and writer. (b.1926) ^[8]

References

1. Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof, eds. (2001-11-15). Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume I: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia (1 ed.). Oxford University PressOxford. doi:10.1093/019924958x.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-924958-9.
2. Razi, Farinaz (2002). Iraq and the United Nations: a review of the oil-for-food program. ISBN   978-0-612-87404-6.
3. Visscher, Tina (2018-08-31). From Victims to Victors to… Perpetrators? (master thesis) (in Dutch).
4. Graham, Bradley (September 4, 1996). "U.S. Launches More Cruise Missiles Against Iraq".
5. Fletcher, Lily (1 November 2018). "Tara Fares: Iraqi social media star who attacked those who 'chop off heads to prove there is a God'".
6. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021" (PDF). Fifa.org.
7. Ibrahim, Youssef M. (1996-05-10). "Iraqi Offers Regrets in Killing of Defecting Sons-in-Law". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-02-23.
8. العتابي, عبد الجبار (2012-02-13). "أسرة مصطفى جمال الدين.. ترفض مجددا نقل رفاته من دمشق". Elaph - إيلاف (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-02-23.