1916 Start of Battle of Bait Alsa and Sannaiyat between
British and Ottomans
1941 UK Middle East cmdr Gen Wavell told War Office military
intervention in Iraq not
possible and diplomacy should be
used instead
1941 UK Mid East Cmdr Gen Wavell thought Regent of Iraq
could be restored to power
by strong
statement and show of force by Royal Air Force
1972 Soviet PM Kosygin inaugurated Russian company’s
production at North Rumaila
oil field
1980 Iran withdrew all its diplomatic personnel from Iraq
1980 Iran put military on full alert after accusing Iraq of
repeated attacks upon
its border
area
1988 Start of 3rd Anfal campaign focused upon
Germian, Sulaymaniya Civilians
in area
rounded up and many executed
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1991 Sec of State Baker condemned Iraq crimes against its
people but said US would
not get
involved
1991 US began humanitarian airdrops to Kurds
1998 IAEA told UN Iraq not carrying out any prohibited
nuclear activities at sites it
had visited
2002 Blair and Bush met Blair pushed going to UN against
Iraq Some claimed Blair
okayed war
with Iraq at meeting Blair denied that
2002 Bush told network he’d decided Saddam must go
2003 3rd Inf Div conducted 2nd Thunder
Run into Baghdad Iraq’s Info Min Mohammed
Sahaf denied U.S. forces were in
Baghdad
2003 US Marines entered east Baghdad which was empty of
Iraqi forces
2003 US got intel Saddam in Mansour Baghdad Carried out air
raid that killed 18
civilians
2003 Ayatollah Haeri named Moqtada al-Sadr his
representative in Iraq
2003 Looting reported in Baghdad
2003 NY Times reported 4 drums of possible nerve agents
found near Karbala Story
proved
false
2003 Rumsfeld opponents within military leaked details of
Rumsfeld micromanaging
invasion
plans to Seymour Hersh
2004 Mahdi Army seized control of Kut forcing Ukrainian
troops to withdraw
Ukrainians
refused to evacuate CPA civilians from city during retreat
2004 Mahdi Army attacked Polish patrols in Karbala
2004 Mahdi Army fought Spanish troops in Najaf
2004 Sadr claimed he was the military wing of Ayatollah
Sistani
2004 Another marine unit arrived to take part in Op Vigilant
Resolve 1st Battle of
Fallujah
2004 Blair called White House over his concern about attacks
upon civilians during
Fallujah
Battle
2004 US intel memo said that Sunni areas were a lost cause
Sunnis didn’t see
themselves
having role in new Iraq US trying to create
2004 US report Iraq earned $10.1 bil by manipulating Oil for
Food Program from
1997-2002
2005 Talabani sworn in as Iraq president and named Jaafari
as new premier Ended
interim govt
under PM Allawi
2006 3 suicide bombers hit Buratha mosque attempting to
assassinate ISCI MP Saghir
suspected
of running Badr death squads 80 killed
2006 Court papers showed Bush authorized leak of information
on Iraq-Niger
uranium
story to support administration
2006 Prosecutor claimed Cheney Chief of Staff Libby’s leaks
to press were part of
campaign to
discredit fmr Amb Wilson over Iraq-Niger story
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger story)
2007 Islamic Army said it had tried working with ISI but
failed Blamed ISI for
killing
anyone that didn’t follow it
2008 Maliki said Sadrists could no longer participate in
politics if didn’t disarm
2008 Sadr said he would disarm Mahdi Army if Ayatollah
Sistani and clerics
in Iran
suggested it
2010 Sadrist referendum on who movement wanted as new
premier picked Jaafari
after
national vote
2012 Kurdish Alliance said committee put together to work
out problems with Maliki
2012 Shahristani complained about KRG oil contracts saying
they were unrealistic
2013 Cabinet said it was going to amend Accountability and
Justice Law to meet
demands of
protesters
2013 Maliki said early elections should be considered to
solve political stalemate
in country
2013 KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani said Maliki was violating constitution
and
consensus
politics with dispute over budget
2013 Report claimed soldiers in army brigade were told to
vote for Maliki in elections
2014 Maliki told Shiite politicians he was turning to
militias for security because
frustrated
with ISF’s performance
2014 Maliki gave militias like Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Kataib
Hezbollah control
of security
in Baghdad belts
2014 Naqshibandi leader and son killed by ISI in Hamrin,
Diyala
2015 Cabinet said Hashd part of ISF and under premier as
commander in chief
2015 Sunni tribes blamed for some of the looting in Tikrit
after city freed
2015 MP from Albu Ajeel tribe said looting and burning in
Albu Ajeel and Dour were
done out of
revenge for Camp Speicher massacre
2016 One committee set up to handle cabinet reform said most
ruling parties rejected
changes
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