1946 Tawfiq Suwaidi became
premier for 2nd time
1959 Communists called for march in Mosul to counter rumors
of military revolt
against Gen
Qassim there
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1980 Start of major military operation against Kurds
1986 2nd Iraq counterattack to re-capture Fao
Peninsula Failed
1986 KDP launched preparatory attacks in Sulaymaniya to
support Iranian offensive
starting
next day in area
1988 1st Anfal Campaign targeted PUK HQ in Jafati
Valley, Sulaymaniya
Yakhsamar
Sergalou Bergalou attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1991 Iraq said it agreed to Soviet peace plan and would
withdraw from Kuwait
unconditionally
1991 UN Security Council met Western countries said they
weren’t interested in Soviet
peace plan
1991 Bush ordered Gen Schwarzkop to expel Iraq from Kuwait
1994 Saddam diverted Tigris into southern marshes to put
down rebels there
1996 Hussein and Saddam Kamal killed by uncle Ali Hassan
al-Majid and members of
tribe after talked into returning
to Iraq
1998 UN negotiated Iraq working with UN inspectors again
including unrestricted visits,
but didn’t
work
1998 Bin Laden issued fatwa against US sanctions on Iraq and
calling for attacks
against it
1999 State Dept denied that US was using UN inspectors to
spy on Iraq but it was
2004 UN Rep Brahimi report said earliest Iraq could hold
elections was late 2004-early
2005
2006 Iraqi govt ordered curfew in Baghdad Salahaddin Diyala
Babil after Samarra
bombing
2006 US report Sadr changed order to kill all Sunnis in east
Baghdad Were to be
taken to
Sadr City to be executed instead
2006 US report Iraqi army and police assisting Mahdi Army to
kill Sunnis in east
Baghdad
2006 Insurgents stopped vehicles in Baquba and executed 47
people who were heading
to protest
against Samarra bombing
2006 Sunnis withdrew from talks with United Iraqi Alliance
over new govt saying
authorities
were not preventing revenge attacks after Samarra bombing
2006 Sec Gen of Iraqi National Dialogue Front Hayan said
revenge attacks after Samarra
bombing
were how a civil war started
2006 Assoc of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques
attacked 10 imams killed
15 abducted
after Samarra bombing
2006 Interior Min said 18 Sunnis mosques in Baghdad attacked
1 imam killed 1 kidnapped
2006 Study Iran supported Mahdi Army and violence in Iraq
while backing Shiite
parties and
Iraqi govt
2007 US Special Forces arrested Ammar Hakim on trip back
from Tehran Was only
released
upon protest of Gen Petraeus
2008 Sadr said he failed because US still occupying Iraq and
many of his followers
had left
his movement
2011 National Reconciliation Min announced that 5 insurgent
groups had agreed
to join
politics
2016 Kurdish Alliance said they didn’t support Abadi’s
reform program and wanted
their quota
of positions in his new cabinet
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