1916 British forces defeated
Ottomans at Fallahiya
1941 UK Joint Planning Staff said all measures should be
taken to overthrown PM
Gaylani
1941 Churchill ordered Sec of State for India to put
together force to be sent to Iraq
1941 German Foreign Office said it supported Arab action
against British for their
freedom
1980 Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr and sister Bint
al-Huda executed by
Saddam
1980 DIA said 50% chance Iraq would invade Iran Said Iraq
thought Iranian military
weak and
could easily be defeated
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini broadcast speech calling on Iraq
people to topple their
govt
1981 Sec of State Haig said that Iraq was an important
Middle Eastern country and
hoped for
better relations in future
1982 Syria closed border to Iraq Claimed Saddam backed Muslim
Brotherhood against
Assad
1983 Dawa bombed offices of Iraqi Airways in Baghdad
1985 2nd War of the Cities ended
1985 UN Sec Gen de Cuellar went to Baghdad where Saddam said
Iraq was ready to
enter into
talks to end war
1991 Plan to create UN safehaven in northern Iraq for Kurds
approved at European
Union
meeting
1991 US agreed to $10 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
1991 European Community agreed to provide humanitarian aid
to Kurds
1992 Kurds announced elections for Kurdish parliament and
leader would be held
5/17/92
1995 PUK-KDP ceasefire in civil war Turkey mediated Ankara hoped
to gain PUK-
KDP help
against PKK in return
2001 Czech Inter Min claimed 9/11 terrorist Atta met with
Iraqi intelligence in
Prague
Later proven false
2003 Bush said UN would play crucial role in creating an
interim Iraqi govt
2003 US forces surrounded Baghdad US A-10 jet shot down by
Iraqi surface to air
missile
over city
2003 Ayatollah Haeri said Iraq’s Shiites needed to seize
power now that Saddam
overthrown
and oppose US plans
2003 Site south of Baghdad searched for chemical weapons but
nothing found
2003 Rumsfeld had meeting to find replacement for ORHA head
Garner for new
presidential
envoy to Iraq
2003 British army appointed Muzahim Tamimi former general
and Baathist as head of
Basra
province Provoked demonstrations leading to Tamimi’s removal
2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid said that US would get
Fallujah under control
2004 Fighting in Fallujah left 460 Iraqis and 36 US troops
dead
2004 US 1st Armored Div retook Kut from Mahdi
Army
2004 Several Japanese aid workers kidnapped
2005 Transitional Iraqi parliament confirmed Talabani as
president of Iraq
2006 Iraqi general said country in a civil war
2008 End of Maliki’s deadline for militias to disarm in
Basra
2008 US forces moved into southern Sadr City to build wall
to prevent attacks on
Green Zone
Led to fighting with Mahdi Army
2008 10% of Basra police facing AWOL charges for fleeing
instead of fighting
Mahdi Army
during Charge of Knights
2008 Gen Petraeus told Congress Baghdad had only accepted
21,000 Sahwa out
of 91,000
into ISF
2008 Gen Petraeus said Shiite Special Groups were largest
long term threat to Iraq
2008 Amb Crocker told Congress that if US withdrew from Iraq
without
accomplishing
constitutional reform Iranians would come out winners
2011 Over 2,000 protested in Baghdad and Fallujah Demanded
prisoners be released
Some demanded
US forces to leave
2011 Soldiers from 11th Div in civilian clothes
arrested protest organizer and held him
for a week
and tortured him
2011 KDP and PUK rejected call by opposition to disband govt
to meet demands of
protesters
2011 Maliki told Sec of Def Gates Iraq did not need a U.S.
military presence after
withdrawal
at end of year
2011 Gates went to Iraq to try to convince Maliki and
political parties to accept
stay behind
force of US soldiers
2012 Sadr said that Maliki was becoming a dictator
2013 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced ISI became ISIS and that
it founded Jabhat
al-Nusra in Syria
2015 KDP released Haider Sesho Yazidi militia commander on
promise that his
men would
follow Peshmerga
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