1925 Head of League of Nations
Mosul Commission called King Faisal a
“poor
creature”
1925 British intel report Iraqi
govt picked MPs privately Political parties had no power
and
no programs
1984 2nd time UN got
Iran and Iraq to agree to not attack each others cities Didn’t last
1991 Iranian Amb to UN warned that Iraqi army ready to launch
op against displaced in
southern
Iraq hiding after 91 uprising
2002 Rumsfeld said Iraq had chemical weapons and an active
nuclear program
2003 Undersecretary of state told Cheney chief of staff
Libby that Fmr Amb Wilson’s
wife worked
for CIA Would later leak her identity
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Cheney chief of staff talked with CIA official who told
him Fmr Amb Wilson’s
wife was a
CIA agent
2007 Report Gen Petraeus and staff decided to spread
Awakening model to Baghdad
Diyala
Babil Salahaddin
2007 130 sheikhs in Salahaddin agreed to set up sahwa unit
2007 US in talks with 1920 Revolution Brigades to fight ISI in
Anbar and Diyala
2007 Speaker Mashadani voted out of office by Iraqi
parliament
2008 Report foreign fighters coming to Iraq down to single
digits per month
2009 Maliki said Asaib Ahl Al-Haq head Khazali was a problem
for the U.S. not his
govt
2011 Protest organizers held press conference complaining
about pro-Dawa tribesmen
beating
them in Baghdad day before
2012 After Pres Talabani rejected no confidence vote Barzani
and Iraqiya said they
would still
push issue
2012 Pres Talabani’s office announced it was holding talks
with PKK to work out a
ceasefire
with Turkey
2013 Sadrist rally in Kadhimiya Baghdad led to shootouts
with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in
northern and
eastern Baghdad
2014 ISIS executed 17 police at Mosul airport 12 ISF killed
in Dawasa, Ninewa after
Mosul
seized
2014 ISIS kidnapped staff of Turkish consulate in Mosul
2014 Salahaddin provincial police chief went to Camp
Speicher demanding army
help vs
ISIS Turned down
2014 ISIS seized Tikrit without a fight 30 police executed Burned
provincial council
building
and 4 police stations in city
2014 ISIS executed 10 ISF in Riyad, Kirkuk Burned all the
police stations in Zab
2014 ISIS took Baiji burned down police station Also took Dour
district
2014 Separate reports that Tikrit and Baiji had been freed by
ISF proved false
2014 ISIS attack upon Samarra turned back by ISF
2014 ISIS spokesman Adnani said that group was going to
attack Baghdad and
overthrow government
2014 US said it was sending Hellfire missiles light and
medium weapons to aid Iraq
2014 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said that it would defend Iraq and
holy shrines
2014 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq accused of kidnapping 53 Sunni men in
Hillah Babil and
executing
them
2014 Ammar Hakim said he was calling for volunteers to fight
insurgency
2014 Sadr called for his Saraya al-Salam militia to protect
Iraq’s shrines from
insurgents
2014 Militiamen took 137 men from Latifiya market south
Baghdad 30 later found
dead
2014 150 man Iranian Revolutionary Guard unit sent into Iraq
to assist govt against
insurgents
2014 UNAMI warned that it didn't have funds to deal with
displacement crisis caused
by
insurgency
2015 Video showed US Special Forces taking part in firefight
supporting Peshmerga in
northern
Iraq vs IS
2015 Mutahidun MP complained parts of Diyala had been
cleared of Sunnis and
not allowed
to return for political reasons
2016 Anbar governor investigation found Hashd killed 49 men
from Saqlawiya and
Sjar and
643 others detained not seen again
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