1917 British Samarra Offensive ended in victory over
Ottomans British suffered
18,000
casualties
1920 Ataturk gave speech demanding Turkey’s southern
territories include Mosul and
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1941 PM Gaylani asked for German military intervention in
case of war with England
1941 London decided to land an entire division from India in
Basra
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1989 Ali Hassan al-Majid’s special powers over northern Iraq
for Anfal ended
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2003 Iraq oil started flowing for fist time since US
invasion Iraq shut down oil flow
day war
started Mar 20
2003 USAID official told Nightline rebuilding Iraq could
cost US $1.7 bil and
Iraqi oil
and donors would pay for rest
2003 ORHA head Garner came up with list of 9 objectives to
accomplish for postwar
Iraq
including paying salaries return police and ministries etc
2003 White House said confident Iraq’s WMD would be found
2003 NY Times article Iraqi scientists told US Iraq
destroyed all its WMD equipment
before
invasion US now looking for programs rather than WMD stocks
2003 NY Times article US would be getting info on Iraq’s WMD
from Chalabi and
INC
2003 Up to 3 mil participated in Arbaeen ceremony that had
been banned under
Saddam
2003 Protest in Kut, Wasit blocked US convoy for 4 hours
2003 Report thousands of Arabs were being evicted from Kirkuk
by Kurds and
forming
militias to protect themselves
2003 1st US troops arrived in Fallujah 2 weeks
after end of invasion
2004 Bremer said ex-soldiers welcomed back into army said
complaints about
deBaathification
were legitimate US streamlining how it deal with prisoners
2004 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez ordered investigation into
military intel practices
due to Abu
Ghraib prison scandal
2005 UN Sec Gen Annan blamed US and UK for Iraq smuggling
under Oil For Food
program in
90s rather than UN
2009 KRG Premier Barzani criticized Hadbaa party for
monopolizing all the seats
on Ninewa
council
2009 Iraq claimed it captured IS leader Abu Omar Baghdadi
Didn’t happen
2010 5 car bombs hit Shiite mosques in Baghdad kill 72
2011 Karbala governor said province should think about
becoming a federal region
2011 5,000 protested in Mosul demanding release of prisoners
2011 Sadrists marched in Baghdad against US occupation
2012 Iran tried to work out deal between Maliki and Sadr but
failed Sadr moved
into growing
critic of Maliki’s rule
2012 Iraq’s Foreign Ministry called in Turkey’s ambassador
complaining about
Ankara’s
interference in Iraqi politics
2013 Maliki ordered raid on Hawija protest camp run by
Naqshibandi leading to over 40
dead and 70
wounded
2013 Violence spiked in Iraq after Hawija raid and helped
mark return of Iraqi
insurgency
2013 Mohammed Abu Risha called for protesters to arm
themselves after ISF attack
upon Hawija
protest site
2013 Clash between protesters and ISF in Ramadi 6 soldiers
killed
2013 Fighting broke out between ISF and insurgents in
Suleiman Beq
2013 British court found maker of fake bomb detectors guilty
of 3 counts of fraud
2016 Fighting broke out again between Hashd, Turkmen vs
Peshmerga Kurds in
Tuz
Kharmato
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