1934 Iraqi Communist Party
founded
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1941 Pan-Arab Golden Square officers decided to remove PM
Hashemi in coup
1981 Egypt began selling military equipment to Iraq in
Iran-Iraq War
1985 UN Sec Gen arrived in Iran Told Iraqi air raids killed
1450 civilians and wounded
4000
1989 Iraq exported oil for 1st time from Basra
after Iran-Iraq War closed down ports
1989 Israel said Iraq embarked on crash course to build a
nuclear bomb and a missile
to deliver
it
1991 Govt op to retake Sulaymaniya from Peshemerga began
2000 UN Res 1293 doubled amount of spare parts Iraq could
import to maintain its
oil
industry under Oil for Food program
2002 Blair offered a division and UK bases to US for
invasion
2003 Saddam didn’t give televised speech as expected Instead
Information Minister Sahaf
did calling on Iraqis to carry out
suicide missions against the invaders
2003 1st car bomb in Iraq hit US checkpoint north
of Najaf
2003 US forces engaged Fedayeen and Republican Guard south
of Baghdad
2003 US forces launched raid on Shatra Dhi Qar after
receiving information Ali Hassan
al-Majid
Chemical Ali was there
2003 British military believed it could start popular
uprising in Basra to take city
rather than
having to attack it
2003 Sir David Manning told British would have huge shortage
of troops for postwar
operations
in Iraq
2003 UK Foreign Office official wrote For Sec Straw saying
Iraqis mistrusted US and
US occupation
would be humiliation and untenable
2003 Israeli Infrastructure Min Paritzky said he wanted to
reopen Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline
by end of 03 Based upon promises
made by Chalabi before war he would get Iraq to export oil to Israel
2004 US Committee on US pre-war intel on WMD said that US
intel was “dead wrong”
on almost
all its judgments about Iraq
2004 Insurgents ambushed Blackwater convoy and killed 4
contractors in Fallujah 2
were strung
up on bridge
2004 Bush gave CPA 48 hours to resolve Blackwater attack in
Fallujah
2004 Bush gave speech US would not give into violence in
Iraq and fighting terrorism
2004 Sadrists marched to Green Zone in Baghdad to protest US
occupation
2005 Silbermann-Robb report called US pre-war intel on Iraq
one of largest intelligence
failures in
US history
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US intel data on Iraq was
worthless and analysis wrong
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US lacked significant new intel
on Iraq WMD so relied
on Gulf War
and 90s UN inspections and extrapolated from them
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US relied upon Iraqi defectors
that were lying and
ignored
problems with their stories
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US relied upon satellite photos
that showed nothing
substantive
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US intel claimed Iraq made WMD
advances that were
technically
impossible
2005 Silbermann-Robb report US intel ignored reports that
Iraq no longer had any
WMD
2005 Silbermann-Robb report UN inspectors disproved most of
US case against Iraq’s
WMD but were
ignored
2005 Robb-Silberman report found CIA had little on Iraq’s
nuke program outside of
aluminum
tubes but became basis for Oct 02 National Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD
2005 Silbermann-Robb report said that aluminum tubes Iraq
tried to buy were for
rockets not
centrifuges Example of misinterpretation by US intel
2005 Robb-Silberman report said aluminum tubes was a
technical assessment which
CIA failed
at Went with assumptions rather than facts
2005 Robb-Silberman report CIA never looked at Iraqi rockets
to see whether they
fit
aluminum tubes CIA and DIA created theory on tubes that rejected all criticism
2005 Robb-Silberman report found British and Australian
intelligence didn’t
believe
aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
2005 RAND study showed post-war planning for Iraq was
inadequate and never
considered
security of Iraqi public
2006 100 insurgents attacked Muqtadiya police headquarters
killing 19 police and
freed 33
prisoners
2007 Maliki made 1st trip to Anbar and met with
tribal leaders and provincial council
who
complained about Baghdad’s neglect
2008 IRGC-QF Gen Suleimani met with Pres Talabani and VP
Mahdi to try to
negotiate
ceasefire between Maliki and Sadr
2008 Maliki said would continue to go after Mahdi Army in
Basra that didn’t follow
cease-fire
2008 Maliki aide said plan was to divide Mahdi Army between
those that followed
Sadr’s
ceasefire and those that continued fighting
2008 Mahdi Army fired rockets at Green Zone for another day
2008 Interior Min announced 1000s of police would be fired
for refusing to fight Mahdi
Army
2008 Report 2 army regiments refused to fight Mahdi Army in
Baghdad
2008 Mass grave with 52 bodies of ISI victims found in
Zahmann Diyala River
Valley
2009 British ended military mission in Iraq
2009 Deadline for power sharing and provincial elections in
Kirkuk passed with no
progress
2010 VP Hashemi said an Arab should be president no longer a
Kurd
2010 Iraqiya said it would implement Art 140 on disputed
areas to try to get Kurdish
backing for
Allawi as premier
2010 Sadr said there would be a referendum on who his
followers wanted as premier
2011 Pres Barzani said he would prosecute security members
who fired on
demonstrators
in Sulaymaniya
2011 Protests in Kalar, Sulaymaniya become violent with
rocks thrown at security
forces
2012 Oil Ministry paid oil companies in Kurdistan $650 mil
for exports
2014 IS released 2nd annual al-Naba report on its
operations
2014 IS held parade in Abu Ghraib
2014 Fmr Communications Min Allawi Fmr Fin Min Issawi and 8
general mangers
charged
with corruption
2014 Mutahidun claimed 44 civilians killed by Hashd in
Buhriz, Diyala with
complicity
of ISF
2015 Tikrit freed from IS 1st stories emerged of
Hashd looting afterward
2015 Diyala council voted to remove confidence from Gov
Yacoub for stealing
aid for
displaced
2016 PM Abadi presented his list of technocratic ministers
2016 Sadr called off his protests after Abadi announced
cabinet
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