1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement broke up Ottoman Empire into
British and French
Spheres Basra and Baghdad to
England Mosul to French France was to be buffer with Russia
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
1941 While British planes bombed Iraqi column outside Rutba,
Anbar English ground
forces were
attacked by German planes
1941 German commander in Iraq agreed with Baghdad’s plan to
retake Habaniya but
didn’t have
forces to do it
1941 German planes attacked Habaniya base British destroyed
10 German planes in
Irbil and
Mosul
1941 Mullah Mustafa Barzani escaped Baghdad and headed for
Sulaymaniya
1977 Saddam interview with US News & World Report said
Iraq would never accept
Israel’s
right to exist
1984 US offered to provide air cover to any Arab country’s
oil tankers in Persian Gulf
to protect
them from Iranian attack
2003 CPA Order 1 disbanded Baath Party Came from Undersec of
Def Feith He would
later deny
responsibility
2003 ORHA Head Garner met with Iraqi Leadership Group exiles
and Iraqi notables put
together by Barzani and Talabani
Bremer told Leadership Group he was in charge not them
2003 Bremer announced that interim Iraqi govt would not be
formed and that CPA
would govern Iraq
2003 CPA picked Phillip Carroll to be top US adviser to Oil
Ministry Said he was
against
privatizing industry
2003 Sadrists attacked movie theater in Baghdad for showing
indecent movies
2003 Arabs claimed they were beaten by Kurds at a market and
bridge in Kirkuk
2004 Sec of State Powell some sources on Iraq WMD were
inaccurate wrong and
sometimes deliberately
misleading
2005 US issued order unless US forces directly involved in
abuse of Iraqis
should report incident and do
nothing else
2008 Suicide bomber hit Fallujah police station killing
several officers
2008 Parliament integrity committee said arms deal with
Serbia illegal Def Min refused
to answer
questions about it
2008 Maliki gave insurgents 10 days to hand in weapons in
Mosul as part of Mother of
Two Springs
offensive
2009 Maliki promised major crackdown on corruption
2009 Kurds deployed Peshmerga to Zummar, Ninewa in response
to ISF move there
Part of
tension with Hadbaa running Ninewa govt
2009 Head of British Army Gen Dannatt said UK’s participation
in Iraq damaged its
military
reputation with US
2010 Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi named new leader of ISI after Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi
killed
April 2010
2011 Gulf Cooperation Council rejected Iraq’s bid to join
2011 Senior Iraqi Air Force official said Iran tried to
block Iraq buying F-16s from US
using
friendly political parties
2011 Security official blamed militias for wave of
assassinations and sticky bombs in
Baghdad
2011 Qadisiyah council voted to make province a federal
region
2011 investigation into IS prison break in Basra caught in
political controversy with
ruling
parties interfering 2 members of Maliki’s office implicated
2011 Sadrists rejected any talk of extending US troop
presence in Iraq past end of year
2012 End of deadline set by Sadrists for Maliki to implement
Irbil power sharing
agreement Maliki did not respond
2012 Pres Barzani said he was fed up with Maliki and could
not work with him
anymore
2012 Maliki allowed Dep PM Mutlaq back to work after
dismissing him as political
threat during
no confidence move
2013 Gov Nujafi of Ninewa escaped IED attack on his convoy
2013 ISF raided Sheikh Suleiman’s farm in Anbar leading to
shootout with guards
2014 Reports of barrel bombs and indiscriminate shelling of
Fallujah by ISF leading to
large displacement of civilians
2015 IS leader Baghdadi issued speech saying Anbari
displaced being mistreated by
Baghdad for
sectarian reasons
2015 Ramadi fell to IS after months of fighting Report IS
going through city executing
government
workers and Sahwa members
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