1917 Battle of the Boot at Band-i-Adhaim between British and
Ottomans
1941 PM Gaylani refused
permission for British troops to land in Basra
1941 2 brigades of Iraqi soldiers surrounded British
Habaniya base ordered British
to cease
operations there
1941 Iraqi forces surrounded British embassy in Baghdad
1941 Iraqi troops seized Kirkuk oil field and cut off
pipeline to Haifa
1941 PM Gaylani hoped to pressure British to leave Iraq
without a fight
1941 UK memo to Chiefs of Staff discussed destroying Iraq’s
oil wells to deny them to
Germany
1948 Jewish forces took Jaffa, and 7 other towns held by
Iraqi volunteers in 1st Arab
Israeli War
1959 Gen Qasim banned party activities in armed forces to
try to block Communists’
influence
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1980 By end of April around 20 Iraqi officials had been
killed in bombings by
Shiite
opposition parties
1980 Arab Iranians seized Iranian embassy in London
demanding sovereignty for
Khuzistan
province Were trained and armed by Iraq
1985 Sec State Shultz asked Def Sec Weinberger to speed up
approval of technology
exports to
Iraq
1985 State Dept intel reported no evidence Iraq had started
on a nuclear weapons
program It
had
1990 Jordanian prosecutor report detailed fake bank accounts
Ahmed Chalabi ran
with his
Petra Bank
1996 Turkey began bombing campaign along border against PKK
1997 Fighting broke out between PUK and Kurdish Islamic
Movement
2001 NSC meeting on Al Qaeda threat DepDefSec Wolfowitz
asked why US should
focus on
bin Laden when Iraq terrorism real threat
2001 Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin told DepDefSec Wolfowitz no
evidence of Iraq terrorist
threat to
US
2001 DepSecState Armitage told DepDefSec Wolfowitz Al Qaeda
was the main threat
to US
2003 U.S. forces shot at civilians for 2nd time
in 2 days in Fallujah 2 killed
2003 Rumsfeld visited Iraq Realized rebuilding country would
take years which was
not his
plan
2004 Marines withdrew from Fallujah turning over security to
Fallujah Brigade
2004 Daily Mirror published what turned out to be fake
pictures of UK forces abusing
Iraqi
prisoners
2004 Poll 71% of Iraqis saw US as occupiers 46% said
invasion more harmful then
good
2004 Prisoner abuse by US guards at Abu Ghraib reported in
US media
2005 mass grave with up to 1,500 Kurds killed by Saddam
during Anfal campaign
found
outside Samawa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2006 Fmr Sec State Powell told British TV he advised CENTCOM
cmdr Gen Franks
US needed
more troops before invasion but advise ignored
2006 Pres Talabani said 7 insurgent groups might be able to
be talked into joining
political
process
2006 US Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction report
said attacks still retarding
rebuilding
projects but real progress being made
2006 US Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction head
said that attacks on
infrastructure
down 60%
2006 Audit found effort to protect power and oil
infrastructure largely failed Questioned
2 foreign
security companies contracted to train guards
2007 Anbar Awakening claimed to have killed ISI War Minister
Masri Didn’t happen
2008 Maliki said that Mahdi Army had to be disbanded because
couldn’t have
militias
and state
2008 Sadr spokesman said Iranian weapons in Iraq was normal
because Tehran
would sell
to anyone
2008 Turkey said it would resume diplomatic relations with
Kurdistan
2009 ISF started 2nd Operation Promise of Good in
Diyala
2010 Def Min said that ISI had lost its direction after 2
leaders Masri and Baghdadi
killed
2010 Maliki claimed foreign countries were plotting coup
against him
2010 Iraqiya threatened boycott after courts banned winning
candidates for Baathist
past
2011 Hundreds demonstrated in Kut for better services and
against corruption
2011 Asayesh arrested four protest organizers trying to
start demonstration in
Sulaymaniya
2011 US said Iranian investment projects in Karbala and
Najaf were fronts for
supported
Asaib Ahl Al-Haw and Kataib Hezbollah
2012 KRG said Baghdad should pay foreign oil companies
working in Kurdistan
2012 Allawi said he wouldn’t go to national conference to
resolve differences with
Maliki
2012 4 bodyguards of fmr Speaker Mashadani arrested for
terrorism
2013 Kurdish ministers ended boycott of govt
2013 Islamic Army met with Kirkuk tribes to form armed group
after ISF attacked
Hawija
protest site
2013 Sheikh Sulaiman said that protesters would go to war
with govt after crackdown
on Hawija
protest site
2013 Insurgents attacked Wasit municipal council building
2013 Dep PM Mutlaq criticized ISF attack on Hawija protest
site
2014 KRG parliamentary elections 1st in 8 years
2014 Anbar tribes claimed Baghdad agreed to some of
protesters’ demands to end
fighting
Didn’t happen
2015 Head of Salahaddin council said Hashd were looting and
burning buildings
in Tikrit
2015 City worker in Tikrit said 300 buildings in northern
section of city had been
destroyed
including 2 mosques
2015 IS seized half of Baiji refinery
2015 Head of Anbar Operations Command said Hashd were needed
to fight IS
in province
2016 Parliament refused to meet over Abadi’s technocratic
govt Sadr called for popular
revolution
as followers stormed Green Zone
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