1922 King Feisal threatened to end Anglo-Iraq treaty talks
if term mandate
wasn’t
dropped from Iraq
1959 Leftists announced creation of Peace Partisans in Mosul
Up to 250,000 from all
over Iraq
arrived in Mosul Caused reaction by pan-Arab opponents of Qasim
1975 Iran Iraq Algeria foreign ministers met and signed Algiers
Agreement to settle
Iran-Iraq
border issues
1981 Iran demanded Islamic Conference Organization determine
aggressor in the war
1991 Saddam appointed cousin Ali Majid Interior Minister to
put down uprisings
after Gulf
War
1991 State Dept spokesman said foreign powers should not get
involved in Iraqi
uprisings
following Gulf War
1991 Kurdish uprising started in Kol Sanjaq
1992 Turkey said it would send troops into Iraq to stop
Kurdish independence
1992 Saddam regime suspected of car bombing in central Sulaymaniya
outside Kurdish
party
offices
1998 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and
Special Security Directorate
sites
2002 Blair wrote article for UK paper saying Iraq had WMD
and would use them
2002 Gen Franks briefed VP Cheney on which Middle East
countries needed to be
lobbied to
help with Iraq invasion before trip to region
2002 CIA held meeting on covert and unconventional warfare
capabilities against
Iraq
2002 US war game held on political and military implications
of Iraq invasion
2003 Bush TV address Said time running out on UN weapons
inspectors Accused Iraq
of hiding
its WMD Bush said that he’d not decided on war when he had
2003 NatSecAdv Rice letter to Senator US had briefed UN on
all suspected WMD
sites
Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites
2003 Blair was told UK should not try to administer post-war
Iraq
2004 Report US intel dismissed reports that said Iraq had no
WMD
2004 Report Bush chastised Rumsfeld over Abu Ghraib abuse
scandal
2004 5 Shiite Iraqi Governing Councilmen refused to sign
Transitional Administrative
Law due to
objections by Ayatollah Sistani
2006 Basra police surrounded 5 US govt workers Had to be
rescued by security
contractors
2006 Iraq NGO report to US said over 700 Shiite families
fled neighborhoods in
Baghdad
after Askari shrine bombing
2007 ISI attacked Badush prison, Ninewa freeing 68 prisoners
2007 Bombing in Hilla killed 120
2007 Ret Gen Keane told VP Cheney that Petraeus had
re-invigorated US mission
in Iraq
2011 Independent radio station in Kalar attacked by armed
men for supporting protests
2014 Transportation Min Amiri turned around Middle East
Airlines plane in flight so
his son who was late could get on
2015 Dour outside of Tikrit freed from IS
2016 Kurdish delegation met with Abadi demanding 20% of any
new cabinet
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