1927 Lord Cecil said British public opinion was
overwhelmingly against staying in
Iraq
1954 PM Umari resigned so he could go on annual vacation to
Turkey to escape summer
heat in
Iraq
1981 Col Qaddafi announced he would go to Tehran and Baghdad
to try to negotiate
ceasefire
in Iran-Iraq War Libya supported Iran
1996 UN said Iraq smuggling oil through Iranian waters
breaking sanctions
2003 CIA report to Dir Tenet said that Niger-Iraq uranium
story was dropped because
based upon
fake docs
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 CIA report that it found docs at Iraqi scientist’s home
that proved Saddam
had nuke
program Proved false
2004 PM Allawi promised reprisals against insurgents after
suicide bombing of Iraqi
army base
2004 Bush refuted 9/11 Comm saying Iraq-Al Qaeda had
connections and that was why
Iraq was a
threat
2004 Cheney said 9/11 Comm didn’t look at the overwhelming
evidence of Iraq-
Al Qaeda connections Claimed he had
intel on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties that 9/11 Comm didn’t That intel later proved false
2008 Truck bomb by Mahdi Army or Special Group in Baghdad
killed 63 wounded 70
US forces claimed bombing meant to
stop return of displaced Sunnis and provoke sectarian fighting
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hurriya bombing)
2009 US held talks with Syria to try to stop foreign
fighters travelling through country
to Iraq
2011 ISI took responsibility for killing deputy head of
deBaathification Comm
Lami
2011 Anbar councilman said Syria still supporting insurgency
2011 Maliki organized second march for his government in
Baghdad and Karbala
2011 Protests held in Baghdad and Dhi Qar against corruption
Baghdad protesters
attacked by
Maliki supporters 2nd time
2012 Sadr said he would not accept a 3rd term for
Maliki
2012 MP Othman said that KDP wanted Maliki out while PUK
didn’t
2013 Kataib Hezbollah attacked Mujahedeen e-Khalq camp with
rockets
2013 Badr said one of its men died fighting in Syria before
its presence officially
announced
2013 Exxon signed 3rd contract with KRG to
explore for oil in Sulaymaniya
2013 Sadrists maintained control of Maysan governorship in
new govt
2013 State of Law-SIIC-Sadr alliance formed new govt in
Qadisiyah SIIC got
governorship
2014 Security operation to clear Qaim, Anbar began
2014 Tuz Kharmato declared freed
2014 Rawa Ana Saqlawiya Amiriya Fallujah Ramadi Khalidiya in
Anbar all
decalred
freed half of them weren’t
2014 Insurgents attacked 3 neighborhoods in Baquba, Diyala
along with Hit
and Garma
in Anbar
2014 Prisoner that was wounded when Hashd executed 43
prisoners in Baquba
was taken
from hospital by police and killed
2014 Maliki dismissed Gen Gharawi head of Ninewa Ops Command
for fall of
Mosul
2014 Hezbollah’s Nasrallah said that Shiite shrines in Iraq
needed to be
protected
from insurgents Said that Hezbollah would send men to fight in Iraq
2015 Sadr blamed Maliki’s authoritarianism for return of
insurgency
2016 PM Abadi prematurely announced liberation of Fallujah
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