1917 British army captured
Baghdad from Ottomans
1922 Wahabi Ikhwan from Saudi Arabia attacked south of
Nasiriya slaughtering
civilians
1970 Bakr govt offered Kurds autonomy agreement after talks
with KDP Offered
self rule
assembly recognized Kurdish language promoted Kurdish culture
1970 Autonomy agreement with Kurds allowed Kurdish vice
president in Baghdad
share of
oil revenue
1970 Autonomy agreement Mustafa Bazani agreed to give up
heavy weapons and
have
Peshmerga integrated into army
1970 Since fighting started in 1968 some 60,000 killed in
Kurdish rebellion 300,000
displaced
1974 After talks with KDP broke down Bakr govt announced
Autonomy Law for
Kurdisan which KDP rejected
1984 Report Iraq had 3 poison gas plants producing chemical
weapons for Iran-Iraq
War
1985 Iran bombed Baghdad and 10 other Iraqi cities
1985 Iran started Op Badr trying again to cut Basra-Baghdad
highway
1988 Iran and Iraq signed truce in war of cities in Ankara Didn’t
last War of Cities
went on for
another month
1991 Shiite uprising in Hillah put down
1991 Rebels from Najaf met French forces who said they would
meet Gen Schwarzkopf
Never
happened
1991 Kurdish uprising started in Irbil
1991 Massoud Barzani offered amnesty for soldiers who
surrendered to Peshmerga
1991 Peshmerga began attacking Kirkuk, Iraqi army responded
by taking hostages
inside city
1992 Saddam said Kurds could not hold elections for
parliament until they gave up
protection
of Coalition forces
1995 PUK suicide bomber hit KDP headquarters in Zakho
2002 Blair told Cheney UK would support US action to remove
Saddam
2003 Rumsfeld said US could attack Iraq by itself without
other nations Said British
might not
participate
2003 UK Embassy in US furious that Rumsfeld said British
might not take part in
war and
complained to White House
2003 Rumsfeld forced to issue clarification saying British
would take part in Iraq war
2003 Blair said Britain would help in any US attack upon
Iraq
2003 UK acknowledged couldn't get 2nd UN
resolution authorizing force against Iraq
before US
timetable for war
2003 UK Chief of Def Staff Adm Boyce said military needed
legal directive for war
with Iraq
2003 CIA assessment said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding that
Iraq-Niger uranium
docs were
fakes
2003 CIA WMD division said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding
that Iraq-Niger
uranium
docs were fakes and alays considered intel on story fragmentary
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 ORHA head Garner told press US would keep Iraqi army
and would quickly
turn over
control of country to Iraqis
2003 When asked Garner dismissed talk about US turning over
power to Chalabi
and INC
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz and UnderSecDef Feith chastised
Garner for comments
about INC
2003 ORHA Chief later told by Pentagon he could no longer
talk to the press
2003 Rice issued memo on postwar Iraq plans Said interim
Iraqi authority would be
created
Meeting in Baghdad to be held to bring in more Iraqis to authority
2004 UK envoy to Iraq John Drawers said US had no leadership
strategy or
coordination
2010 US captured ISI governor for Baghdad Rawi who provided
intel to allow
killing of
ISI leaders Masri and Baghdadi
2011 KDP held rally against on going protests
2013 Anbar council voted to delay provincial elections there
2016 Sadrists protest again in Baghdad demanding reforms
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