1935 Tribes seized Suq al-Shuyukh and cut railway between
Basra and Nasiriya
during
revolt against govt
1941 German major arrived in Baghdad to lead Brandenburgers
Commando
recon unit
in Iraq along with squadron of bombers and squadron of fighters
1941 Germany had total of 24 fighters and bombers in Iraq to
help Gaylani govt fight
German planes
were painted in Iraqi colors to hide their origin
1941 British received intel that German planes flying to
Iraq from Syria
1941 German plane bombed British force from Palestine
heading towards Habaniya
1941 British bomber attacked Iraqi column outside Rutba,
Anbar
1941 Kurds began discussing revolt against PM Gaylani to
take advantage of crisis with
British
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1948 Iraq Egypt Jordan Syria armies entered into Palestine
to join in 1948 Arab-Israeli
War Iraqi army attacked Kibbutz
Gesher in northern Palestine
1948 Baghdad declared martial law due to war but was really
aimed at ending protests
over new
Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1988 Start of 5th Anfal Campaign aimed at
destroying last of PUK’s bastions in
Balisan
Valley, Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 West Germany seized parts headed for Iraq suspected for
130ft long supergun
1991 International Atomic Energy Agency started first
weapons inspection in Iraq
2001 Sec of State Powell told Congress UN sanctions had
effectively contained
Saddam
2003 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq
was working on WMD before
war
2003 UK Foreign Secretary Straw hard evidence of Iraq WMD
may never be found
Not
important Iraq was in the wrong
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US found evidence
of Iraq WMD and
needed
Iraqis to step forward and tell them where it was
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US had commitment
to stay and commitment
to leave
Iraq Said CPA would create interim Iraqi government
2003 ORHA head Garner complained to Bremer about draft CPA
Order 2 disbanding
Iraqi security forces Garner talked
Bremer out of disbanding police and Interior Ministry
2003 CPA security adv Slocolmb told Garner Iraqi army had
disbanded itself Colluded
in Saddam’s
crimes and needed to go
2003 Bremer and CPA advisers reviewed CPA Order 1
DeBaathification
2003 CPA appropriated $2 bil for rebuilding Iraqi security
forces electricity oil
2003 US forces launched Operation Planet X to arrest Baathists
north of Tikrit
2003 Sadr cleric gave sermon in Baghdad accusing US forces
of being able to see
through
women’s clothes and giving pornography to children
2005 55 member constitutional committee appointed
2005 Sec of State Rice told Pres Barzani and PM Jaafari they
had to include Sunnis in
new govt
2005 Salah al-Mutlaq said couldn’t unite Iraq without
including the Baathists
2007 Sadr made last public appearance with sermon in Kufa
before fleeing to Iran out
of fear of
US assassination during Surge
2008 Sahwa in Mosul complained ISF were arresting them
instead of insurgents during
Mother of
Two Springs Operation
2009 Mass grave found in Najaf with 3,000 Kurds killed
during Anfal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2009 Oil Ministry said it wouldn’t pay oil companies
exporting oil from KRG
2009 Maliki called for majority government and ending
sectarian quota system
2009 Maliki claimed US releasing terrorists from prisons
resulting in increased in
violence 2008 Maliki govt had
negotiated quicker release of prisoners by US
2011 Sheikh Sulaiman said that tribes and politicians would
make Anbar a federal
region
2011 Salahaddin politicians met with Pres Barzani to discuss
making province a
federal
region
2012 Trial of ex-VP Hashemi began Bodyguard claimed Hashemi
implicated in 150
attacks
from 2005-11
2012 Genel Energy said it would expand its oil holdings in
Kurdistan
2015 IS seized govt center in Ramadi in final drive to take
city Reinforcements sent to
Ramadi to
stave off IS offensive Never arrived
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