1920 Sir Percy Cox was reassigned to run Iraq from his
posting in Persia
1924 UK run Baghdad Times said Iraqis were turning on
British protection for Mosul
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1941 British forces sent to Haditha and pushed insurgents
led by Qawujki into
Syria
1967 Most of Iraqi air force destroyed by Israel
1967 8th Iraqi Brigade tried to cross Damiya
Bridge destroyed by Israeli air strike
1975 Shah Pres Bakr Algerian Pres Bumidan met over Iran-Iraq
border issues
1982 After Israel invaded Lebanon Saddam offered ceasefire in
Iran-Iraq War and for
Iraq to
send troops to help Palestinians
2003 Imam at Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhmaiya Baghdad called
for resistance to the
US
occupation
2003 UN head inspector Blix said just because there were
questions about Iraq’s WMD
didn’t mean it had them Said US and
UK never provided quality intel on Iraq’s WMD
2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith said intel on Iraq didn’t change
from Clinton to Bush
2003 White House spokesman intelligence showed no doubt that
Iraq had WMD
2003 US intel thought they were close to finding Iraq’s WMD
because more Iraqis
coming
forward and giving info
2003 Report Bush admin dropped uncertainties about WMD intel
and made them
certainties
that Iraq had them
2003 US rejected having UN weapons inspectors back in Iraq
to look for WMD
2003 Sep 02 DIA report leaked to press DIA thought Iraq had
WMD but couldn’t find
specific
facilities making them
2007 Islamic Army and ISI announced truce after killings and
accusations Didn’t last
2008 Kurds said they could export 150,000 bar/day in oil but
no neighboring countries
would allow
it
2009 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Laith Khazali released and AAH
released bodies of 2
British
bodyguards they kidnapped and killed
2011 6 US soldiers killed in rocket attack in Baghdad by
Kataib Hezbollah most lost in
one attack since 2009
2012 PM Nechirvan Barzani talked with Turkish PM Erdogan
about KRG exporting
oil to
Turkey
2012 Report front companies acting as recruiters for Iraqis to
go fight in Syria for Assad
govt
2013 Mass grave found in Diwaniya with victims of Saddam
2013 Govt sponsored meeting to try to get Anbar tribes to
organize against ISI
2013 Baghdad asked Kurds to withdraw Peshmerga from Tuz
Kharmato and Suleiman
Bek Kurds
said no
2013 VP Hashemi said he supported Sunni region in Iraq
2013 Salahaddin Governor Abdullah won 2nd term in
office
2014 37 Sunnis abducted shot and dumped in Samarra in
separate incidents
2014 ISIS continued attack on Mosul Took 5 neighborhoods
2014 Head of Ninewa Ops Command Gen Gharawi ordered
defensive line in western
Mosul
2014 Maliki told Gen. Gharawi to hold city until Gen Ghidan
ground forces
commander and
Gen Qanbar chief of staff arrived
2016 Ayatollah Sistani warned against attacks on innocents
revenge attacks destruction
of property
in war against IS
2016 605 men from Saqlawiya who were abducted by Hashd
released to Anbar
officials
showing signs of torture and beatings
2016 Member of Anbar council demanded Hashd be withdrawn
from Fallujah op for
abuses
View the Iraq History Timelines
No comments:
Post a Comment