1999 in Iraq

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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. ^[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]

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. ^[6]

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)

References

1. Lippman, Thomas W.; Gellman, Barton (8 January 1999). "U.S. Says It Collected Iraq Intelligence Via UNSCOM".
2. Hasan, Harith (2021-11-26). "The Roots of the Sadrist Movement: Muhammad al-Sadr, Religious Authority, and Sociopolitical Practice". The Middle East Journal. 75 (3): 365–385. doi:10.3751/75.3.11.
3. "BBC News | UK Politics | MP boards bus bound for Baghdad". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
4. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (2005-10-31). CORRUPTION IN THE UNITED NATIONS OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM: REACHING A CONSENSUS ON UNITED NATIONS REFORM. Government Publishing Office.
5. "S/RES/1284 (1999)". www.un.org. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
6. "مباحثات سعودية عراقية بشأن الحج". الجزيرة نت (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-02-21.
7. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021" (PDF). Fifa.org.
8. "Mohammed Hadid, 92, an Iraqi Who Long Backed Democracy". The New York Times. 1999-08-06. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-02-24.