1920 Iraqi rebels led by Jameel al-Midfai reached Mosul with
about 1,000 men
1941 British forces crossed from Iraq into Syria attempting
to capture German
diplomat
Dr. Grobba
1967 Iraq broke diplomatic relations with U.S. after defeat
in Arab-Israeli War
1975 Iran-Iraq agreed on Shatt al-Arab border Shah would
stop arming Kurdish
revolt
neither would support opponents of each other
1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha
to stop Saddam’s
bomb program Destroyed facility
1983 Iraq offered ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected by
Iran
1984 Soviets delivered new missiles to Iraq which Baghdad
said it would use
against
Iran’s oil industry
1991 UN began taking over camps run by US military to help
Kurds following 91
uprising
2003 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation
2003 Sadr travelled to Iran to talk with Iranian officials
and met Ayatollah Haeri
2003 ISCI threatened to boycott CPA’s Iraqi Governing
Council
2003 CPA Order 12 ended all of Iraq’s tariffs leading
country to be flooded with cheap
imports
closing down many Iraqi businesses
2003 DIA chief Adm Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD sites
in Iraq in 2002 but
didn’t mean
Iraqi didn’t have WMD program
2003 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD
2003 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq
trailers were not WMD mobile
labs as
suspected
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 White House spokesman said WMD would be found
2003 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq
was producing or had
stocks of
WMD
2006 Zarqawi killed by U.S. F-16 jet north of Baquba
2006 Natl Sec Adv Rice said White House agreed on Iraq
policy Privately Rice working
on new one
2008 Poland announced that it would withdraw its forces from
Iraq by Oct 08
2009 Inter Min said it would investigate torture charges in
Maysan and Qadisiyah
Nothing
happened
2010 Oil Min said oil production would reach 12 mil/bar/day
by 2017 Didn’t happen
2011 Maliki’s 100 day deadline to reform ministries ended
with no changes Was to
appease
protesters
2011 Army started withdrawing from Fallujah as part of deal
with Anbar govt to
pull out of
urban areas
2012 Maliki welcomed new breakaway party that had 7 MPs that
didn’t sign no
confidence
vote against him
2013 Sadrists State of Law and SIIC agreed on new provincial
govt in Maysan Sadrists
would
retain governorship
2014 ISIS stormed Anbar Univ in Ramadi taking hostages
2014 US warned Baghdad that ISIS moving forces from Syria to
attack Mosul
2014 US wanted Peshmerga to move into eastern Mosul Pres
Barzani offered Maliki
said no
2014 Maliki told US 9 brigades would be sent to Mosul US
said wouldn’t arrive in
time
2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of
staff took over
defense of
Mosul
2014 Badr said it would protect Askari shrine in Samarra
against insurgent threat
2015 KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani accused Baghdad of breaking
constitution by not
giving
Kurdistan budget payments
2016 Protests in Dhi Qar and Baghdad calling for reform
2016 Abadi said people would be arrested for abusing
displaced in Fallujah op
2016 UN called on Baghdad to protect displaced from abuses
by govt forces
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