1917 British forces captured
Fallujah from Ottomans
1917 Gen Maude sent message to Iraqis saying British had not
come as conquerors
but
liberators
1917 Maude said British would not impose their institutions
and called on Arabs to
help rule
1921 UK Cairo Conference decided that independent
Mesopotamia govt would pay
part of
British expenses especially for troops
1921 UK Cairo Conference decided Sir Cox would offer amnesty
for those involved in
1920 Revolt
Feisal would offer his services in Mesopotamia as a way into power
1921 UK Cair Conference decided an Anglo-Mesopotamia treaty
would be necessary
to ensure
relations between two countries
(Musings
On Iraq article on the Cairo conference and the selection of Feisal to be
first king of Iraq)
1951 Grenade hit US information office in Baghdad
1963 Iraq sent delegation to Syria to talk about uniting two
countries
1981 Iraq attacked Susangard, Iran after ceasefire offer
rejected by Khomeini
1982 Iran broke Dezful siege Iraqis lost 10000 dead 15000
wounded 15450 captured
Iran lost
4000 dead 8000 wounded 6000 captured
1982 Iranian offensive around Dezful recaptured 940 sq mi of
Iranian territory from
Iraqis
1982 Saddam sent envoy to Islamic mediation mission with
cease-fire proposal and
offer to
withdraw from Iranian territory
1988 End of 1st Anfal campaign that destroyed
PUK’s bases in Sergalou and Bergalou,
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1991 Saddam’s troops recaptured Karbala from Shiite rebels
Went district to district
taking
young men and executing them
1991 Govt forces arrested Ayatollah Khoei following Shiite
uprising 105 relatives staff
students
and clerics arrested in Najaf by govt forces
1991 Bush admin officials accused Iran of trying to
overthrow Saddam and place
friendly
Shiites in power in Baghdad
1998 Chalabi and King Hussein sent letter to Clinton saying
Saddam should be
overthrown
2002 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate no Iraq Al Qaeda connection
but Iraq couldn’t be
ruled out
from involvement in 9/11
2002 CIA Dir Tenet said no doubt Iraq-Al Qaeda links and
Iraq developing nuclear
weapons
2002 DIA Dir Adm Wilson briefed Senate Armed Services Comm
on threats to US
Didn’t
include Iraq Said Iraq contained only residual WMD programs
2003 German French and Russian Foreign Ministries condemn
impending Iraq invasion
saying it
had no UN approval
2003 Bush ordered start of war US Polish Australian Special
Forces entered southern
Iraq seizing
oil and port infrastructure
2003 Bush called Coalition members to tell them war starting
2003 CIA told Pentagon Saddam Uday Qusay might be at Dora
farms in south Baghdad
Rumsfeld
brought intel to White House
2003 Powell Rumsfeld Cheney Rice Hadley all advocated
hitting Dora farm to try to take
out Saddam
Uday and Qusay
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer told press disarmament
of Iraq had begun
2003 US Stealth bombers hit Dora farm hoping to kill Saddam
and family
2003 Bush went on TV to announce war
2003 Army Chief Gen Shinseki told Congress he couldn’t say
how much rebuilding
Iraq would cost
2003 UN inspector
said WMD decontamination trucks US pointed out were water or
fire trucks
2003 Turkish parliament approved US overflights for invasion
2004 Justice Dept drafted opinion that Iraqis and foreigners
in Iraq could be taken out
of the
country by CIA Legal experts said violated Geneva Conventions
2004 UN responded to reports that UN officials involved in
fraud with Oil for Food
program
2004 Team arrived in Baghdad to try to come up with
interagency plan for rebuilding
Iraq 1st
time happened since invasion
2004 BBC poll of Iraqis 56% said better than year ago 23%
About the same 18% worse
48% right
for U.S. to invade Iraq 39% wrong
2006 Iyad Allawi said Iraq was in civil war no matter what
others said
2006 Gen Easton who commanded US training effort for Iraqi
forces until 2004 said
Rumsfeld
failed to build Coalition in Iraq and ignored advice of military
2011 Maliki said no secret prisons in Iraq after Camp Honor
secret prison found
in Baghdad
2012 Sadrists held Day of the Oppressed protests in Basra
for better services
2013 Cabinet announced postponing provincial elections in
Anbar and Ninewa for 6
months
because of security
2013 After criticizing Maliki Sadr withdrew his ministers
from cabinet
2016 Ruling parties said they would not support Abadi’s new
cabinet unless quotas
maintained
2016 PM Abadi Pres Masum Speaker Jabouri and political
leaders agreed to form 3
committees
to deal with reforms and new cabinet
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