1916 German commander of the Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia
Gen Goltz
died of
typhoid
1920 Start of San Remo meeting with Britain France Italy and
Japan Decided on split
up of
Ottoman Empire and creation of Iraq
1922 Colonial Sec Churchill said King Feisal’s demand that
mandate be dropped from Iraq
impossible under League of Nations that created mandate
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
1941 British 20th Inf Brigade finishes its
landing in Basra and 7 planes flown into
Habaniya
airbase
1969 Iraq expelled Shiites claiming they were Iranians
Backed Iran dissident groups
Claimed
Khuzistan due to Shah voiding 1937 Shatt al-Arab Treaty
1981 Revolutionary Command Council member Tariq Aziz said he
hoped for better
relations
with US but skeptical it would happen
1983 Baath meeting in Amara over army desertions in southern
Iraq Came up with
military
operation to arrest them
1990 White House rejected limiting high-tech exports to Iraq
that could be used for
military
1990 Saddam met with Yasser Arafat and discussed retaliatory
attacks upon Israel and
US if Iraq
was attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
2002 UK intel report Iraq not seen as a threat in Middle
East except by Kuwait
2003 Protest in Baghdad’s Adhamiya against U.S. occupation
2003 Gen Mattis said that U.S. didn’t have enough troops to
secure Iraq
2003 Turkey threatened to send troops if Kurds took over
Kirkuk
2004 Marines and Fallujah leaders worked out deal for
insurgents to turn over heavy
weapons
2005 Report US intel discussed what torture techniques they
could use on Iraqi
prisoners
in Aug 03 including electrocution
2006 NGO Survey found 19,548 kidnappings from Jan to April
2006
2006 KRG parliament proposed creating Natural Resource
Ministry to run region’s
oil
industry
2007 ISI announced that Abu Ayub al-Masri was War Minister
2008 Sadr said he would continue to fight US and Maliki
until stopped operations
against his
group
2008 ISF took Sadr stronghold in Hayaniya, Basra Fighting in
Nasiriya as well
2008 Al Qaeda’s Muhajir called on Sunni Iraqis to unite
behind ISI
2010 State of Law called for revote after lost to Iraqiya
Charged fraud but no
irregularities found
2011 Protest in Diwaniya over better work conditions broken
up by police
2011 Sulaymaniya govt banned all demonstrations in city
after protests broken up
day before
2012 Anbar councilman said province would move towards
federal region
2012 ISI set off car bombs in Baghdad Kirkuk Samarra Baquba,
Dibis 35 killed
more than
100 wounded
2012 After meeting Pres Barzani Turkish officials accused
Maliki of spreading
sectarianism
2013 Checkpoint outside Hawija protest site attacked 1
soldier killed Led to stand
off between
2 sides
2013 Hawija site was run by Naqshibandi that wanted to
provoke confrontation with
ISF to push
demonstrators towards violence
2014 Head of Ninewa Operations Command accused of extorting
money and arresting
people for
ransom
2014 Protest in Baghdad and other provinces for reform
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