1941 British bombed Iraqi air
bases in Baghdad and Baquba
1941 British bombers arrived at Habaniya airbase from Egypt
while Iraqis continued
to shell
base
1941 British dropped leaflets on Baghdad saying war was with
Gaylani govt not
Iraqi
people
1941 Regent broadcast radio message asking people not to
follow Gaylani govt
1941 PM Gaylani sent diplomat to Tehran to contact Germans
and ask for military aid
1941 UK Chiefs of Staff told Mid-East commander Gen Wavell
he had to take action
against the
Gaylani govt
1966 Iraqi troops started military campaign against KDP
1981 Iraq began shelling Iran’s oil refinery at Abadan
1989 Saddam’s cousin and Def Min Adnan Kairallah died in
mysterious helicopter
crash
1991 2nd round of peace talks between Kurds and
Baghdad postponed due to differences
between KDP
and PUK over need for international help and oil
1995 Turkey withdrew 15,000 troops after KDP said it would
crackdown on PKK
in
Kurdistan
2003 Powell said sure US would find Iraq’s WMD Rumsfeld said
US never claimed
finding WMD would be easy Powell
denied stories that Iraq sent its WMD to Syria
2003 US official said unlikely to find any large MWD or nuke
stocks in Iraq Said
sanctions
had led Iraq to get rid of most of its WMD
2003 Iraqi scientists told US investigators Iraq had no WMD
for years
2003 ORHA memo said security was still top priority in Iraq
2004 Shiite leaders called on Sadr to withdraw his Mahdi
Army from Najaf and Karbala
2004 US announced it would not be withdrawing forces from
Iraq as planned
2004 CIA started investigation into whether it kept
undocumented prisoners in Iraq
It did
2005 Sadrist cleric in Basra talked about imposing Islamic
Law on city Bombed liquor
stores
imposed Islamic dress attacked mixed picknickers
2005 Sadrist cleric in Basra said movement didn’t want to be
like Iran because most
Iranians
were corrupt
2005 Doctors in Basra said Mahdi Army had tried to stop male
doctors from serving
female
patients Posted pictures of Sadr in hospitals
2006 Zarqawi gave presentation saying Al Qaeda in Iraq
needed to expand its base
from Anbar into Salahaddin and
Diyala Said Ramadi was to be named capital of emirate
2006 Fmr CIA National Intelligence Officer Pillar said that
Bush admin manipulated
evidence to tie Iraq to Al Qaeda
before invasion Part of CIA vs White House blamed gave for prewar intel
2008 ISF raided Thar Allah prayer ground in Basra
2008 Iraqi delegation in Iran to try to end Charge of
Knights were refused meeting
with Sadr
2008 Iraq backed down on charges that Iran was supporting
militias fighting govt
2008 Iraq general in Karbala said Iran giving weapons to
militias in city and
undermining
security
2008 Maliki said special committee created to look into
Iranian interference in Iraq
2009 Sadr said he had given up on armed struggle against US
and wanted to
focus upon
politics
2010 Baathist leader apologized for mistakes of party Said
wanted to join politics
Public
needed to remember achievements of party
2010 State of Law and National Alliance announced joining to
form National Coalition
after
national elections
2011 Speaker of US House Boehner said US forces should stay
in Iraq past
end of 2011
deadline
2011 Maliki submitted new list of nominees for security
ministries empty since 2010
elections
2012 Maliki’s media advisor Ghabban said he thought dispute
between Baghdad and
KRG would
be over by end of 2012
2012 Pres Barzani gave speech saying Kurds would never live
under a dictatorship
meaning
Maliki
2012 KRG called for Baghdad to pay oil companies operating
in Kurdistan
2012 KRG said in talks with Turkey to build an oil and gas
pipeline between two
2013 Election Commission announced final results for
provincial elections State of Law
lost 30% of
its seats from 09 vote
2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq rally in Baghdad announced it was
fighting in Syria
as part of
Abu al-Fadhl al-Abbas Brigade
2014 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that ISIS fighting in Syria
was a disaster
2014 Fighting between Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS in Kirkuk
2014 Sadrists said talks with SIIC, Kurds and Allawi to
block Maliki from 3rd
term as PM
2017 Iraqi forces attacked Mosul from northwest opening new
front in city
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