1941 PM Gaylani stepped down fearing civil war due to his
reaching out to Axis that had split govt
and angered
British
1941 UK Foreign Office decided to give money to Regent to help
him return to power
1991 US and Saudis pushed Iraqi forces out of Saudi city of
Khafji after 2 days of fighting
1999 Soviet paper claimed hundreds of Afghan Arabs were
being trained in terrorism in south Iraq
to fight US
2003 Blair’s advisers told him had to prioritize pushing
Bush on postwar planning for Iraq but
Blair
failed to do so
2003 Bush and Blair said that invasion would start Mar 10
2003
2003 Blair told Bush he needed a 2nd UN
resolution for use of force against Iraq for domestic
politics
Bush agreed
2003 Bush and Blair said a 2nd U.N. resolution
would be good against Iraq but not necessary to go
to war
2003 Bush said fighting between Iraqi factions would be
unlikely after invasion
2003 Bush and Blair talked about provoking Iraq to help
justify war including getting US spy
plane fired
upon
2004 Gen Taguba started investigation of abuses at Abu
Ghraib prison
2004 Car Bomb at Mosul police station killed 9 wounded 45
2005 Assyrians in Ninewa’s Bashiqa and Bartella told
couldn’t vote after promised they could
when
ballots ran out on Jan 30
2005 Assyrians demonstrated in Ninewa Plains over not being
allowed to vote Broken up by
Kurdish
security forces
2006 US Emb-military report situation in 6 of Iraq’s 18
provinces serious 1 critical
2006 US Emb-military report said militias infiltrating
security forces in Basra Lots of
gangs
smuggling assassinations
2009 Provincial elections held
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