1922 Sir Herbert Samule proposed UK create Arab state of
Iraq Hijaz Palestine
Trans-Jordan
maybe Najd
1932 Shiite leaders told Yasin
Hashemi they would back him for PM if they got
majority
of cabinet posts
1973 Govt offered new autonomy plan for Kurds but rejected
by Mustafa
Barzani and
KDP
1982 Iran attacked Qasr e-Shirin central Iran
1983 Iraq fired missiles at 6 Iranian cities killing 24 and
wounding 283
1996 Uday Hussein seriously injured in assassination attempt
in Baghdad by Nahdah
opposition
group
2001 Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on invasion preparations
and estimated costs with
start time in
spring 2002
2003 US Special Forces captured Mohammed Musslit who led
them to Saddam
2003 CPA adv Diamond told Rice that US should include UN in
CPA’s plans to create
new Iraqi
govt Could alleviate Sistani’s demands for elections
2003 Pentagon audit found Halliburton overcharged $61 mil
for delivering fuel to Iraq
2003 US guards at Abu Ghraib prison took pictures of themselves
abusing Iraqi prisoners
2005 DIA report Insurgents recruiting networking training in
prisons Could be
more
dangerous after release
2005 Rumsfeld told US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey and US Iraq Amb
Khalizad insurgents
networking
in Iraqi jails
2005 Report early 05 Islamist insurgents met with Al Qaeda
in Iraq asking for a joint
command Al
Qaeda in Iraq said no wanting control
2006 Bush told NSC he was not going to announce Surge until
Jan 07 Wanted new
DefSec
Gates in office
2009 Iraq held second auction for international oil
companies to bid on its oil fields
2009 Blair said he would still have removed Saddam without
WMD and that
Saddam was
a threat to world no matter what
2009 Maliki questioned by parliament over Baghdad bombings
starting in August
MPs
complained about lack of coordination by ISF
2012 Diyala council voted to hold a referendum on turning
province into a
region
2013 Iraq signed $1.1 bil deal to buy 24 FA-50 light fighter
jets from South Korea
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