1922 Karbala conference led to call for war against Wahabis
unless compensation
paid for
raid in southern Iraq and Ibn Saud didn’t punish them
1922 Ikhwan invasion of south Iraq resolved by letters
between Iraq and Saudis Ibn
Saud
apologized
1941 German Foreign Min Ribbentrop was told Gaylani govt was
pro-Axis and
Germany working
on getting it arms from region
1941 German Foreign Min Ribbentrop okayed arms shipments to
Gaylani govt and
sabotage in
Iraq and region against English
1941 Germany and Italy made joint statement of support for
PM Gaylani
promising military and financial
aid
1941 German and Italian statement to PM Gaylani encouraged
him to confront England
1972 Pres Bakr signed 15 yr treaty of friendship with Soviet
Union
1980 Saddam deported 9,700 Shiites claiming they were
Iranians Later deported
another
16,000
1985 UN Sec Gen deCuellar left Baghdad saying he had not
been able to bridge divide
between
Iraq and Iran
1986 Iraq made 4th attempt to re-capture Fao
Peninsula
1987 Iran ended Op Karbala 8 failed to take Basra City
1987 Iran started Op Karbala 9 attacking Qasr e-Shirin northern
Iran and into Kurdistan
1987 Dawa attacked Saddam’s motorcade outside of Mosul to
commemorate execution
of
Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr
1990 Saudi Amb to US Bandar told Pres Bush Saddam would not
attack Israel but
wanted
guarantee that Israel would not attack Iraq
1990 Bush told Saudi Amb Bandar that he didn’t understand
Saddam’s threats unless
he intended
to attack Israel
1990 Saddam wanted to make sure his western flank was
protected form any Israeli
action
before he decided to invade Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
2002 State Dept started Future of Iraq project bringing together
240 Iraqi exiles
to chart
out post-Saddam Iraq
2003 Abu Dhabi TV showed Saddam at Adhamiya Baghdad urging
crowd to fight
invasion
2003 Baghdad fell ending U.S. invasion Looting began in city
2003 Iraqis in Firdos Square pulled down Saddam statue with
help of US Marines
2003 Kurdish Peshmerga seized Kirkuk
2003 Gen Franks told Bush war going according to plan Bush
wanted to collect info
on life
under Saddam to compare with life after
2003 CENTCOM said war reached tipping point Iraqis realized
Saddam was done
2003 VP Cheney said Iraqi govt collapsing showing criticism
of war was wrong
2003 VP Cheney said with a little investment Iraq could
produce 2-3 mil/bar/day
of oil by
end of year
2003 US intel report Baathists Fedayeen Iraqi forces operating
independently of orders
Would
continue to fight until eliminated
2003 Sadrists held first Friday prayers reviving tradition
of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
2003 US forces ordered Badr Brigade to disband but didn't
2004 Human Rights Minister Abdul Turki resigned saying
Battle of Fallujah was a
violation
of human rights
2004 1 member of Iraqi Governing Council boycotted and two
others threatened to
resign over
Battle of Fallujah
2004 Bremer ordered end to 1st Battle of Fallujah
because of negative publicly and
complaints
by Iraqi politicians
2004 200,000 Sadrists and Sunnis rallied at Um al-Qura
mosque run by Association of
Muslim Scholars in Baghdad against
US occupation and in solidarity with Fallujah
2004 Bush called leaders of Poland, Italy and El Salvador to
make sure they would
keep troops
in Iraq
2004 US contractor fuel convoy attacked in Abu Ghraib
leading Brown & Root to
suspend all
its convoys in Iraq
2006 Babil police chief said if US troops left province
would be civil war next day Said
police not
strong enough to intervene between warring militias
2006 Gen Newbold wrote in Time problems in Iraq due to
“casualness and swagger” by
Bush
administration
2007 1920 Revolution Brigades said ISI was killing civilians
and other insurgents
2007 40 religious scholars formed Council of Ulema of Iraq
in Jordan to be religious
body for
insurgents
2007 Abu Wael declared his Sharia Council was breaking away
from Ansar al-Sunnah
2007 Barzani said Kurds main reason Iraq stayed unified
2008 Fmr Under Sec of Def Feith claimed that differences
between CIA and State Dept
vs Pentagon
over Chalabi screwed up postwar Iraq
2008 Fmr UK Amb to US Greenstock said US had no real plans
for postwar Iraq
2008 Head of Iraqi intelligence said Iran undermining Sahwa
2008 Iraqi general complained Iran interfering in Basra by
supporting Mahdi Army
during
Charge of Knights op
2008 Sunni MPs called on peshmerga to be disbanded after
Maliki said all militias
in Iraq
should disarm
2008 Sadr claimed he consulted with clerics who said he
didn’t have to disarm Mahdi
Army
2008 Ayatollah Sistani said he supported govt’s demand to
disarm Mahdi Army
2009 Sadr had mass rally in Baghdad to mark fall of Saddam
in 03 and called for US
withdrawal
2009 Baghdad said it was committed to Sahwa but it would
purge all those who were
Baathist
and ISI infiltrators
2010 Sadrists held demonstration in Najaf to mark fall of
Saddam and protested US
occupation
2011 Protests started in Mosul calling on govt to release
prisoners
2011 Protests in Babil started demanding provincial council
disband and better services
2011 Protests started in Fallujah calling for Fallujah
council to disband over corruption
and poor
services
2011 Sadr held anti-US demonstration in Baghdad threatened
to bring back Mahdi
Army if US
forces didn’t leave at end of year
2011 Dep PM Mutlaq compared Maliki to Saddam
2011 Speaker Nujafi said there was no power sharing in Iraq
and Maliki concentrating
authority
in his hands
2012 KRG cabinet said that KDP and PUK Interior Ministries
were going to unite
2012 ISF attacked nightclubs and alcohol shops in Baghdad
and shut them down
2012 Pres Barzani said that Baghdad was marginalizing Kurds
within ISF and
that F-16s
could be used against KRG
2012 Iraqiya complained Maliki centralizing power
2012 Parliament committee created to investigate mass
arrests in Baghdad before
Arab Summit
Never made report
2012 Parliament economic committee chairman accused foreign
countries of
pumping in
counterfeit dinars into Iraq
2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed
fighting for it in Syria
2013 Gorran rejected extending Pres Barzani’s term
2013 Turkey said it was ready to build a pipeline for
Kurdish oil exports
2015 Hashd spokesman denied stories Hashd looting in Tikrit
Blamed tribes and
individuals
2015 Dep head of Anbar council said Kataib Hezbollah and
Peace Brigades had
deployed to
Shjariya, Anbar
2015 Hashd would later claim they were not in Anbar because
of Abadi and US
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