1917 3 British gunboats fired upon by 4 Ottoman ships at
Nahr-al-Kalek, Wasit
3
Turkish ships sunk and 4th captured
1983 Iran’s Op Fajr al-Nasr in Maysan to seize Basra-Baghdad
road ended
1991 Saddam announced withdrawal from Kuwait Iraqi army
started pulling out
1991 Saddam called on Iraqis to applaud the army for
fighting 30 countries Claimed Iraq
won and it
was a great victory
1991 US 3rd inf Div attacked 52nd
Armored Div 17 Div Adnan and Tawakalna Divs
1991 Battle of 73 Easting US 2nd Arm Cav Rgt
fought Iraq’s Tawakalna Div
1991 Battle of Norfolk US 1st Arm Div UK 1st
Arm Div destroyed Iraq’s 26th, 25th, 31st,
48th
Divs and 52nd Arm Div
1991 US aircraft began attacking retreating Iraqi forces
from Kuwait on Highway of
Death
1991 Iraq said it was willing to end annexation of Kuwait
and pay reparations for a
ceasefire
in Gulf War and end of sanctions
1991 Bush admin officials said they wanted to keep sanctions
on Iraq to provoke a coup
2002 Fmr Amb Wilson arrived in Niger to investigate Iraq
trying to buy uranium
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 MI6 Chief Dearlove said US would demand weapons
inspectors under conditions
Saddam
wouldn’t accept to justify military action
2003 Bush speech at American Enterprise Institute Said that
Iraq was direct threat to US
due to WMD
and links to terrorists
2003 Bush said other nations would help rebuild Iraq and US
would stay in Iraq as
long as
necessary but “not a day more”
2003 Bush said spreading democracy to Iraq would be an
inspiration to Middle East
2004 Gen Taguba handed in his report on Abu Ghraib prison
abuse case
2004 Ayatollah Sistnai dropped demand for elections to be
held by 6/30/04 but said they
had to
happen by end of year
2007 Cabinet approved draft oil bill Never passed
2011 Riot police broke up demonstration in Sulaymaniya city
1 protester killed
2016 Sadrists joined Friday protests in Baghdad saying they
would end support
for Abadi
if cabinet wasn’t reformed Said would storm Green Zone
2016 Kurdish Alliance said they would not give up their
ministries to go along with
Abadi’s
reforms
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