1914 British troops entered Basra
after Ottomans abandoned city
1926 Jaffar al-Askari became PM of Iraq for 2nd
time
1946 PM Umari forced to resign in aftermath of Kirkuk
Massacre where oil strikers killed
1946 Nuri al-Said became premier 4th time
1983 Iran’s Op Wa al-Fajr 4 ended taking a few miles of
territory in Kurdistan
1997 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq
2001 Bush told Natl Sec Adv Rice he wanted Rumsfeld to start
planning for Iraq
2001 Bush told Rumsfeld to update war plans for Iraq Wanted
it done secretly
2002 NATO summit Bush was talking about war with Iraq and
using new U.N.
inspections
as catalyst for action
2003 UN turned over Oil for Food program to CPA
2003 UK intel report Badr Brigade maintained close ties to
Iran that armed and funded it
2004 Iraq Election Commission announced vote for
transitional assembly to draft
constitution
would happen 1/30/05 along with provincial vote
2006 Iraq and Syria announce renewal of diplomatic relations
which were broken
during
Iran-Iraq War
View the Iraq History Timeline
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