1941 Italian planes got into dogfight with British planes
over Baghdad
1
Italian and 2 British planes shot down
1941 British defeated Iraqi forces at Abu Ghraib Turned back
at Abu Ghraib canal in
push on
Baghdad 2nd time
1941 British forces defeated by Iraqi army at Kadhimiya,
Baghdad
1941 PM Gaylani told military leadership had fled to Persia
leading to his own
escape
there along with Mufti of Jerusalem
1941 German ambassador to Iraq fled Baghdad for Kirkuk
fearing British advance
1941 Governor of Baghdad captured by British on trip to
Samarra
1948 Battle of Jenin between Jewish and Iraqi forces started
1st Arab Israeli War
1984 US backed UN resolution condemning Iranian attacks on
Persian Gulf shipping
Didn’t
mention Iraq’s attacks
1987 US Asst Dep Sec of Def Armitage said U.S. couldn’t see
Iraq defeated in
Iran-Iraq
War
1996 PUK and KDP agreed to extend Kurdish parliament for
another year hoping that
assembly
would help end civil war
2002 UK Def Min official Kelly said Blair govt had spun WMD
dossier on Iraq
2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD
labs were found
Inspection
found were not labs
2003 Retired CIA and State Dept officials sent memo to Bush
saying they questioned
intel cited
by White House for Iraq war
2003 BBC report Blair’s office had sexed up UK dossier on
Iraq’s WMD
2003 Elections led to Abdul Rahman Mustafa a Kurd being
elected mayor of Kirkuk
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby told Wash Post reporter
asking about Iraq-Niger
uranium
story
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby asked an undersecretary of
state about a former
ambassador
that said Iraq-Niger uranium deal was false
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 Report incoming interim PM Allawi had links to CIA and
MI6 since 1980s as
opponent to
Saddam
2005 Op Lightning largest joint US-Iraq op so far Aimed at
clearing Baghdad of
insurgents
2005 Report May 2002 US and UK increased air strikes on Iraq
using No Fly Zones in
attempt to
provoke Saddam to justify invasion
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped 5 Brits from Finance
Ministry in Baghdad 4 would be
killed
Ransomed 5th Op planned by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
2007 Ex-insurgents in Amiriya Baghdad told US they were
going to attack ISI and
needed help
Gen Petraeus said he would support them Became Sahwa
2008 US Amb to Iraq Crocker said ISI near defeat
2008 Interior Min fired 7500 police for corruption ghost
officers negligence
2009 Video emerged of Trade Min Sudani and brothers drinking
with prostitutes
talking
about Maliki Sudani from Dawa
2010 Sadrists said they would not allow dictatorship or
autocracy to return to Iraq
referring
to Maliki
2011 Iraqiya nominee for Def Min Obeidi escaped sticky bomb
attempt on his life
in Mosul
2012 Basra council called for province to become federal
region
2012 Maliki held cabinet meeting in Mosul to try to
undermine no confidence vote
against him
Kurds boycotted meeting
2012 Iraqi court found Hezbollah operative Daquq innocent of
terrorism charges Was
liaison
between Iran Hezbollah and militias
2012 Shahristani denied that he ordered stop of fuel
deliveries to KRG even though he
did
2014 Mutahidun Arabiya and Nationalists formed Union of
National Forces list
2016 After he was dismissed by parliament Ninewa Gov Nujafi
refused to leave office
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