1920 British forces retook Tal Afar after bombing broke
Iraqi rebels
1927 UK Colonial Secretary memo said after Iraq independence
new Anglo-Iraq
Treaty
would assure British influence in country
1941 Another British brigade
landed in Basra
1941 Iraq broke relations with
Italy
1954 Regent dissolved parliament and new elecitons held
1982 Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council offered ceasefire
with Iran but was
rejected Iran-Iraq
War
1991 1st UN weapons inspection of Iraq’s WMD
begins
2003 Bush said history would show that US made right
decision to invade Iraq Said
sure Iraq
had WMD and it would be found
2003 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn’t have new intelligence on
Iraq’s WMD it just
saw it
differently after 9/11
2003 Nat Sec Adv Rice denied charges US exaggerated WMD case
against Iraq
2003 Rice admitted that false Iraq-Africa uranium story included
in Bush’s State of
Union but
okayed at time
2003 CIA sent documents to Cheney’s office on fmr Amb
Wilson’s trip to Niger to
investigate
story Iraq tried to buy uranium but didn’t mention Wilson by name
(Musings
On Iraq story on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Powell said that trailers found were Iraqi WMD mobile
labs based upon
eyewitness
evidence Inspections said no
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 More than 70 MPs in British parliament called for
investigation into whether
Blair
misled country on Iraq WMD
2003 Report none of the suspected WMD sites bombed during
invasion turned out to
have WMD
2003 Report that CIA Dir Tenet pushed story that Iraq tried
to buy aluminum tubes
for
centrifuges for nuke program
2003 Report intel agencies doubted Iraq tried to buy
aluminum tubes for nuke program
early on
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 US military officer said that Bush White House tended
to see all info about
Iraq
negatively to build case for war
2003 Report 2 captured high ranking Al Qaeda members held by
US said Iraq never
worked with
group
2003 US forces started Op Peninsula Strike in Dhuliya and
Balad Salahaddin aimed at
hunting
down Baath members and insurgents
2004 Bush and Blair called for NATO to help in Iraq France
rejected call
2008 Sheikh Hayes of Anbar Salvation Council said tribes
organizing to challenge
Islamic
Party in Anbar elections
2009 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq leader Laith Khazali released by US in
deal with Baghdad AAH
said it
would give up violence Didn’t
2011 CIA Dir Panetta estimated 1,000 ISI fighters left in
Iraq
2011 Baghdad closed off Tahrir Square to protesters while
pro-Dawa protesters
allowed to
march
2012 Iraqiya called for parliament to hold no confidence
vote against Maliki
2012 Sadrists said didn’t want no confidence anymore against
Maliki just political
reform
after Iranian pressure
2013 Shoot out between Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Sadrists in
Kadhimiya, Baghdad
2013 Maliki visited Irbil to try to repair relations with
Barzani
2013 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that merger between ISI and Al
Nusra Front in Syria
was over
2013 Joint committee announced deal over disputed areas
energy budget between
Baghdad and
Irbil
2013 State of Law lost control of Basra province to Basra
First list
2014 Gov Nujafi walked streets of Mosul calling on locals to
defend city from ISIS
2014 ISIS seized provincial council building in Mosul Maliki
govt claimed situation
in Mosul
under control
2014 Emergency called in Salahaddin All police ordered on
duty to defend Tikrit
Army was
not put on alert
2014 Baathist Naqshibandi said to have joined ISIS summer
offensive in Ninewa
Salahaddin
Kirkuk
2014 Car bomb at PUK headquarters in Tuz Kharmato killed 30
2015 State Dep spokesman said war against IS could take 3-5
years
2015 US announced sending in 500 more trainers for Iraqi
forces Said it would help
train 9,000
peshmerga
2015 Hezbollah al-Nujaba threatened to attack US after
report that US air strike killed
some Hashd
in Abu Ghraib by mistake
2015 Hashd claimed Baiji cleared Wasn’t
2016 Sadrists sacked and burned Dawa offices in Najaf ISF
wounded 3 trying to break
up protests
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