1948 Kurds from Iraq and Iran met
in Baku, Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani
led plans
for Kurdish movement
1987 Iranian attack on Basra city caused population to
start fleeing
1991 Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim said that Supreme Council was
against U.S.
aggression vs Iraq over its Kuwait invasion
1991 US 5th Special Forces Group entered Iraq
to carry out covert ops behind Iraqi
lines during Gulf War
1991 Iraqi terrorist tried to bomb US Information Service
HQ in Philippines in retaliation for Gulf
War
1992 Report Saudis pushed US to help foment military coup
in Iraq to topple
Saddam
2003 US offered Saddam immunity if he departed Iraq to avert
war
2003 Pentagon officials leaked info on US invasion plans
of Iraq to Time to push back
against
Rumsfeld’s small invasion force
2003 Fmr UN inspector David Kay OpEd in Wash Post said UN weapons
inspectors would never
find any hard
evidence against Iraq
2004 Iraqi Governing Council went to UN to ask it for help
with transition to
sovereignty
against wishes of CPA
2004 100,000 marched in Baghdad calling for early
elections
2004 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez ordered secret
investigation into Abu Ghraib
prison abuse
2007 US arrested Abdul al-Daraji and Ali Smaisin for
running death squads for
Sadr
2014 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his fighters to march
towards Baghdad
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