1927 UK official wrote ForSec
Chamberlain saying UK got Mosul by trick
Promised
25 yr Iraq Mandate Now pushing Iraq independence
1939 King Ghazi’s death publicly
announced PM Said resigned
1941 UK Chiefs of Staff asked Middle East cmdr Gen Wavell
how many troops he could
spare for
Iraq
1948 Port of Basra strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1980 Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr arrested in Najaf by
Saddam
1981 Iran bombed Iraq’s H3 airbase near Syria Destroyed
27-50 planes and Iraq’s
strategic
bombers Syria believed to have helped Iran in strike
1981 Iran said it wouldn’t negotiate a ceasefire with Saddam
1981 Head of US Interests Section in Iraq said that US and
Iraq were growing closer
1983 Iraq offered 1 day ceasefire in order to clean up oil
spill Iran rejected offer
1991 Report Pres Bush gave CIA okay to support opposition in
Iraq led to creation of
Voice of
Free Iraq radio station run by Saudis
1991 Britain offered $37 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
1991 Turkey said it couldn’t support Kurdish refugees
flowing into country so shut
border
10,000 crossed into Turkey 80,000 held at border
2002 UK intel officials claimed that Blair decided that WMD
and Saddam were not
good
argument for going to war in Iraq
2003 3rd Inf Div captured Saddam International
Airport in Baghdad Fedayeen Saddam
counterattack
turned back
2003 US forces sent to southern Baghdad to destroy
Republican Guard units but they
fled
instead of fighting
2003 Saddam appeared on Iraqi TV touring Baghdad
neighborhood
2003 Information Minister Sahaf finally admitted US forces
were in Baghdad at airport
2003 Blair sent letter to Iraqi people saying Saddam would
fall and Coalition would
not be in
Iraq longer than necessary
2003 Power surge knocked out most of the power in Baghdad
Would be out for
weeks after
war over
2003 NSC Adv Rice said US wanted a democratic Iraq with no
WMD that would not be
threat to
neighbors
2004 Sadrists rose up in Baghdad Najaf Kut Karbala Kufa Nasiriya
against US
Ambushed US
patrol in Sadr City killing 8 Americans
2004 80% of one Iraqi National Guard battalion and 70% of
another deserted in
Baghdad in
1st day of fighting Mahdi Army
2004 40% of police in Najaf and Kut fled when Sadrists rose
up in 2 cities
2004 Fighting between Mahdi Army and Spanish in Najaf left
200 Iraqi casualties
2004 Polish battalion held Karbala city hall but rest of
city fell to Mahdi Army
2004 Italian governor of Dhi Qar made deal with Mahdi Army
to stay in base
while
militia took Nasiriyah
2004 CPA created Ministerial Committee for National Security
in Iraqi govt
2004 UN special envoy Brahimi arrived in Iraq to help put
together interim govt
2004 Operation Vigilant Resolve launched by Marines starting
1st battle of Fallujah
2005 Outgoing Inter Min Naqib warned US if SCIRI got Inter
Min would fill it
with Badr
militiamen which it did
2006 Report Inter Min refused to deploy any police trained
by US-UK mission in last
3 months
because didn’t control recruits
2008 Maliki said he would stop raids against Sadrists
2008 Maliki said he didn’t negotiate ceasefire with Sadr but
Iran did
2008 Sadr said he would recruit 10,000 local tribesmen into
security forces in Basra
after
Charge of Knights
2009 Maliki said that Baathists and ISI had infiltrated
Sahwa
2009 Sahwa leader in Baghdad said govt was out to destroy
Sahwa
2009 Sheikh Abu Risha said he would run with State of Law in
provincial elections
2010 3 car bombs on Iranian Egyptian and German Embassies in
Baghdad killed 41
2011 Baghdad Operations Command accused Harith al-Dhari head
of Muslim
Scholars
Association of being behind assassinations in Baghdad
2011 Day of Dignity protests in Baghdad
2011 Opposition parties walked out of KRG parliament when
Peshmerga and Interior
ministers
refused to appear for questioning over treatment of Sulaymaniya
protests
2011 Sulaymaniya protesters called on KRG government to
resign
2012 Dep PM Shahristani told Kirkuk governor had to stop oil
smuggling to KRG
2012 State of Law MP accused Kurds of trying to prevent army
from buying new
equipment
2012 Maliki sent envoy to try to improve ties with Turkey
but failed
2013 Turkey said it was willing to split payments of oil
exports between Baghdad and
Irbil
2015 Great Tikrit Mosque set on fire after city freed Tribes
demanded Hashd withdraw
from area
2016 Kurdish Alliance said it would not vote on any
ministers it didn’t nominate
2016 Allawi said if new govt was to be nonpartisan than
Abadi had to resign too
along with
his cabinet
2017 Kirkuk council voted to take part in KRG independence
referendum
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