1941 Regent of Iraq arrived at British airbase at Habaniya
Anbar after Golden
Square
officers tried to arrest him after coup
1941 Regent tried and failed to organize resistance to
Golden Square coup in Basra
Then fled
to Jordan
1975 Iraq army sealed border with Iran and declared Kurdish
revolt over Mustafa
Barzani and
150,000 Kurds fled to Iran
1975 1972-75 some 17,000 killed and 280,000 displaced during
Kurdish rebellion
1982 Dep Cmdr of Iran’s armed forces claimed end of
Iran-Iraq War was near
1986 Khomeini called for all able bodied men to join armed
forces to overthrow
Saddam
1990 Saddam threatened to use WMD against Israel if it was
attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
1991 State Dept U.S. never said that it was for removing
Saddam
1991 Turkey said that 30,000 Kurds had entered country and
220,00 more coming as
Saddam put
down Kurdish revolt
1991 Iran and Turkey went to UN about Iraq’s suppression of
Kurd and Shiite revolts
and refugee
crisis it was creating
1991 Kurds began fleeing Sulaymaniya in face of govt
offensive to retake it from
Peshmerga
2003 US forces took Karbala
2003 US forces reached outskirts of Baghdad Rep Guard Medina
division
counterattacked
but turned back
2003 Qusay Hussein told Gen Hamdani that US attack in south was
deception and
real
invasion would come from north
2003 US raid freed US POW Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi
hospital
2003 Talabani said Peshmerga would not attack Kirkuk city to
stave off criticism from
US and
Turkey Kurds ended up taking city
2003 Rumsfeld sent memo to military to cooperate with ORHA
because wasn’t helping
it
2003 State Dept leaked complaints to LA Times about
Pentagon’s postwar plans to
exclude UN
and support Chalabi and INC
2004 Sadr gave angry speech against US occupation after CPA
closed his newspaper
2004 Sadrists protested outside Green Zone demanding
movement paper be re-opened
2004 Mahdi Army began marching in Sadr City as tensions with
US grew
2004 Some Friday prayers in Fallujah condemned attack on
Blackwater contractors in
city
2004 Powell criticized US intel for giving him faulty claims
about Iraq’s WMD for
his Feb 03
UN speech
2005 Al Qaeda launched suicide attack on Abu Ghraib prison
starting battle for town
2006 SecState Rice UK ForSec Straw told PM Jaafari he didnt
have support and
should step
down Jaafari said no
2006 US military reported 1313 Iraqi civilians killed in
sectarian murders in March
2006 173
killed in suicide bombings
2006 US Amb Khalilzad said militias should be disarmed Iraqi
officials said that would
create more
violence
2006 PM Jaafari said he would integrate militias into
security forces to control them
2006 Fmr CENTCOM cmdr Gen
Zinni on Meet the Press said Iraq failure of strategic
planning by
US
2008 Retired Gen McCaffrey said ISI’s urban insurgency was
defeated
2010 Maliki said he was going to form alliance with Kurds
and backed Talabani to
remain as
president to form new govt
2010 Sadrists began referendum amongst followers to see who
they wanted to be new
premier
2010 Maliki talk with National Alliance failed as SIIC
Hakim’s opposed Maliki’s
2nd
term
2011 56 wounded in clashes between police and protesters in
Sulaymaniya
2012 Over 300 followers of Mahmoud Sarkhi arrested in
Nasiriya
2012 Oil Min Luaibi claimed Exxon was halting work in KRG so
that it could continue
working
with central govt on oil industry Wasn't true
2012 Dep PM Shahristani accused Kurds of smuggling oil to
Iran
2013 Insurgents attacked Akkas gas field in Anbar
2013 Gunmen in army uniforms attacked 4 independent
newspaper offices in Baghdad
Mahmoud
Sarkhi blamed
2013 Election Commission said provincial vote in Anbar and
Ninewa would be
delayed until
May
2013 Sadrists said they would end cabinet boycott
2015 PM Abadi arrived in Tikrit after its liberation to make
victory tour in city
2015 Sadr said brazen militias should be removed from Tikrit
by ISF after stories
of looting
and burning homes
2015 Hashd leader Muhandis said that any looting and abuses in
Tikrit were done
by locals
not Hashd
2015 Guard in Tikrit said he counted more than 200 homes in
Qadisiyah district destroyed
after
city’s liberation
2016 Kurdish Alliance said it would not vote on Abadi’s new
cabinet unless it
got its
quota of ministers
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