This Day In Iraqi History - May 6

1935 Govt arrested cleric Asadallah follower of Ayatollah Ghita who had been

            demanding concessions from govt

1935 Arrest of cleric Asadallah led to revolt by Abu Hassan, Bani Zurayij and Zawalim

            tribes against monarchy

1941 UK Foreign Min Eden told parliament if Iraq withdrew forces from Habaniya and

            fighting stopped London willing to talk Policy was to remove PM Gaylani

1941 British and Assyrian forces attacked and drove off Iraqi forces surrounding

            Habaniya 409 Iraqi soldiers captured Iraqis suffered 1,000 casualties

1941 Iraqis lost initiative in Anglo-Iraq War when gave up in Habaniya Had

            no plan or leadership to do more than lay siege to base

1941 British and Assyrian forces took Sin al-Dhiban, Anbar captured 300 Iraqi soldiers

1941 British planes destroyed Iraqi column heading for Habaniya inflicting over 1,000

            casualties and prisoners taken

1941 PM Gaylani told Mufti of Jerusalem to contact Germans and ask them for

            immediate aid

1941 German deal with Vichy France allowed military equipment to be moved from

            Syria to Iraq to fight British

1941 German air unit sent to Syria bound for Mosul to confront British

1941 More British troops landed in Basra

1941 Churchill dismissed UK Mid-East cmdr Gen Wavell for his objections to military

            action in Iraq

1963 Soviet Union said it supported Mustafa Barzani and his KDP

1991 Iraq letter to UN accused US of sending in counterfeit dinars to undermine

            economy

1991 2^nd round of Baghdad-Kurd talks started Barzani led delegation

1998 100 US peace activists led by former Attn Gen Ramsey Clark arrived in Iraq with

            $4 mil in medicine

2003 Bush speech said building democracy in Iraq would be like what US did in post

            WWII Germany and Japan

2003 Bush announced Paul Bremer as head of new CPA to run postwar Iraq

2003 Bush told Bremer he had whatever time he needed to put Iraq back together

2003 ORHA agreed to allow Baath members to return to government jobs and police

2003 NY Times Kristof OpEd used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed source on Iraq-Niger

            uranium deal Accused US intel of covering up differences over story

2003 NY Times OpEd said US intel “deceived” world on Iraq-Niger Deal Said

            White House and State Dept kept using story despite denial

2003 NY Times OpEd said that Fmr Amb Wilson knew that Iraq-Niger docs were

            fakes Wilson never saw docs and went to Niger 8 months before US got them

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2004 NSC meeting on how to frame and publicize the coming return of sovereignty to

Iraq

2004 First large scale fight broke out between US forces and Mahdi Army in Najaf

2004 Wash Post published new pictures of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse

2006 British helicopter shot down over Basra killing 5 soldiers When British moved to

            secure wreckage were attacked by 300 from Mahdi Army

2008 ISF raided hospital and police stations in Baghdad accusing officers and staff

            of being Mahdi Army members

2008 ISF raided Sadr offices in Kut

2009 Sahwa in Ghaziliya Baghdad complained about his men leaving because

            not getting paid by govt

2009 Dawa MP said new offensive in Diyala would fail because insurgents had

            fled to Kurdistan

2010 Maliki govt announced start of 5 year anti-corruption plan

2013 Report said politicians manipulating Central Bank of Iraq dollar auctions

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