1919 France and England signed Long-Berenger oil deal France
got 20% of Iraqi
oil via
Turkish Petroleum Company
1919 France agreed to help build oil pipeline from Iraq to
Mediterranean
1941 Britain landed 20th Infantry Brigade in
Basra in response to PM Gaylani and Golden
Square
officers coup
1941 British battalion from India completed deployment to
Shaiba air base in Basra
1941 PM Gaylani asked Italian Amb if Axis would give Iraq
military aid against
British and
Axis air power 1st time Iraq asked for military intervention from
Axis
1980 Iran said Baath at war with Islam and called on Iraqi
army and people to
overthrow
Saddam
1984 Iraq escalated its attacks on tankers heading for Iran
1988 Iraq recaptured Fao Peninsula, Basra using chemical
weapons
1991 Report 500-1,000 displaced Kurds were dying a day along
Iraq-Turkey border
1991 Saddam agreed to UN setting up offices in Iraq to help
displaced following
Shiite and
Kurdish uprisings
1991 Iraq provided first disarmament declaration to UN Was
incomplete and hid
lots of
activities like nuke and WMD programs
1996 State Dept official Deutsch went to Kurdistan to try to
broker ceasefire in
PUK-KDP
civil war
2002 CIA report said Iraq might have been able to make
chemical weapons since
1999
2003 Sadrists held demonstration in Sadr City to condemn
U.S. and western culture
2003 Some American officials worried that Iraq had sent its
WMD to other countries
That’s why
wasn’t found
2003 INC head Chalabi said he expected an interim govt to be
formed soon to run most
duties in
Iraq
2003 Rumsfeld said it would take time to find Iraq’s WMD
2003 Arabs that were expelled from Daquq Kirkuk by Kurds
tried to retake town but
driven off
by Kurds
2004 Bremer admitted that Iraqi forces would not be able to
deal with insurgency
on their
own when sovereignty returned in June 05
2004 Spain’s new PM Zapatero announced he would withdraw
1300 troops from Iraq
2004 British report said Coalition troops and Iraqi police
would soon restore law and
order in
Iraq
2006 Report CPA plan to disarm and integrate militias never
funded and followed
through
with
2007 Baghdad bombings killed almost 200
2008 50 soldiers fled their posts in Sadr City rather than
fight Mahdi Army
2008 Sadrist said Mahdi Army might disarm if Badr Brigade
did the same
2008 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri speech said US had been defeated in
Iraq
2008 Shiekh Abu Risha complained that authorities were
trying to stop his organizing
for 09
provincial elections by shutting down offices
2008 Suicide truck bomb hit funeral for Sahwa members
killing 50 in Baghdad
2009 US and British officials went to Jordan to talk with
ex-Gen Hamdani to
talk about
reconciliation with former regime members
2010 U.S. and Iraqi forces killed ISI leaders Abu Masri and
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
near Tikrit
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on who Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was)
2011 Parliament repealed Article 136(b) that allowed
ministers to stop corruption
investigations
2011 Anbar anti-terror police arrested 12 officers involved
with insurgents Some were
working
with Syrian intelligence
2011 Protest in Mosul Baghdad other areas calling for better
services Some said
Maliki
should step down
2011 Kurdish security forces moved to evict protesters from
Sulaymaniya Police
fired into
crowd wounding 6, 1 died, another 90 hurt by beatings
2011 Kurdish court sentenced spokesman for Sulaymaniya
protests to one month
in jail for
defaming a KRG MP
2011 Were first protests in Irbil Were beaten by police 22
wounded
2012 Oil Min Shahristani said Exxon would not start working
in KRG until Baghdad
approved
contract Exxon went ahead anyway
2014 ISIS commander killed fighting Ansar al-Sunna in
Rashad, Kirkuk
2014 Anbar council asked if ISF were competent enough to
retake Fallujah
2014 Former Diyala governor and Mutahidun MP said militias
were trying to take over
Mukhisa and force people out of
town
2014 Maliki gave speech in Babil calling for majority govt
after elections
2015 Khorasani Brigade pledged allegiance to Ayatollah
Khamenei and said it
followed
valayat al-faqih Same time said didn’t take orders from Iran
2015 Govt claimed it fully controlled Baiji Refinery but IS
still held sizeable amount
of complex
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