1916 British tried and failed to take the Dujaila Redoubt
from Ottomans losing
4,000
men
1920 Hundreds of ex-Ottoman soldiers including many Iraqis
petitioned Prince Faisal
about how
Arab revolt didn’t workout during WWI
1950 105,000 Iraqi Jews registered to immigrate to Israel
Almost 40,000 had already
immigrated
under new govt law allowing immigration
1959 Fighting continued in Mosul between Communist backers
of Gen Qasim and his
opponents
1959 Coup leader Col Shawaf sent two planes to bomb Baghdad
radio station but failed
1959 Gen Qasim bombed Col Shawaf’s HQ in Mosul Afterward one
of Shawaf’s
soldiers
killed him thinking coup failed Ended Mosul Revolt
1963 Baath seized power in Syria opening door to unification
with Baath led Iraq
1980 Iran withdrew its ambassador from Iraq Prelude to
Iran-Iraq War
1984 UN sent team to Iraq to investigate Baghdad’s use of
chemical weapons against
Iran
1991 Peshmerga captured Sulaymaniya from govt forces
1991 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani called on Saddam to step down
from power
1998 UN inspectors went to old and new Defense Ministry
buildings and found nothing
1998 Iraqis told UN inspectors they knew Clinton admin
wanted to provoke a
confrontation
to strike Iraq
2002 Iraq options paper given to Blair Said UK could
strengthen containment or
regime
change using military
2002 UK Iraq options paper said invasion only way to ensure
removal of Saddam
2002 UK cabinet meeting said US no longer wanted to contain
Iraq Said only
way to
remove Saddam was through invasion but no justification for it
2002 CIA report on Fmr Amb Wilson’s trip to Niger to investigate
Iraq trying to buy
uranium
Niger denied any deal
2002 CIA report said June 1999 Iraqi delegation met with
Niger PM about business
which PM
thought was buying uranium
2002 CIA analysts believed Fmr Amb Wilson confirmed Iraq was
interested in buying
uranium
from Niger
2002 State Dept believed Wilson’s trip confirmed that Iraq
had not tried to buy uranium
from Niger
2002 Wilson would later claim that he talked about docs
alleging Iraq-Niger uranium
deal but he
didn’t know about them until later
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Blair’s final attempt to get UN Security Council to
pass 2nd resolution
supporting
force against Iraq failed
2003 Blair’s foreign policy adviser Manning told Rice Blair
willing to lose his govt
in order to
fight Iraq war
2003 DIA report to Rumsfeld said that IAEA was dismissing
Iraq-Niger uranium
story
because based upon questionable docs
2003 DIA report said that Wilson’s trip found evidence that
Iraq was interested in
buying
uranium from Niger Was Navy report uranium was in Benin warehouse
2003 DIA report said Somali businessmen talked about
shipment that was similar to
Iraq-Niger
uranium deal even though didn’t mention Iraq Niger or uranium
2003 US official said administration had been duped by fake
docs claiming Iraq tried
to buy
uranium from Niger
2003 Army Corps of Engineers gave KBR $7 bil contract to
repair Iraq’s infrastructure
after war
2003 Fmr Amb Wilson told CNN US govt should and did know
that Iraq-Niger
uranium
story was false
2004 Transitional Administrative Law signed into effect as
temporary constitution
Sistani
said it was illegitimate
2004 Ayatollah Sistani said any further laws must be passed
by an elected Iraqi
parliament
2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that UN rep Brahimi had to
return to Iraq to complete
work on new
Iraqi govt
2008 5000 protested in Basra against army and police
commanders
2009 Suicide bombing in Baghdad killed 28 outside police
academy
2015 ISF turned over Dour to Hashd who started destroying
property
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