1946 Police tried breaking Communist oil worker strike in
Kirkuk Fired on workers
killing 8 wounding 50 Killings
condemned in press PM Umari shut down papers in response Helped lead to fall of
govt in Nov
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1968 PM Yahya threatened to resign over divisions within
military that would lead to
1968 coup
1979 Saddam elected new president and head of Regional
Command Council of the
Baath Party
Dhuri elected VP
1979 Rev Command Council Secretary General Muhyi Hussein
Mashadi objected to
Bakr
stepping down saying he should have been convinced to stay in office
1982 UN offered ceasefire and withdrawal from territory to
try to stop Iran from
invading
Iraq Iran said no
1983 Reagan signed NSDD 99 to review US policy in Middle
East Led to tilt towards
Iraq
1988 Iran withdrew from Halabja district Kurdistan
1988 Iraq started withdrawing from 2,260 sq mi of Iranian
territory
1988 Iraq recaptured Musian border region from Iran
1991 Saddam carried out new wave of executions of Baath
members and army officers
2001 Iraqi Military Alliance opposition group met in London
made up of 60 former
officers
Called for democratic Iraq Foreign aid Iraqi soldiers to work with it
2003 British officially took control of Basra Maysan Dhi Qar
and Muthanna with no
strategy on
how to run them
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby spoke 3rd time
with NY Times reporter Miller telling
her fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife worked for CIA
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby talked with Time reporter
Cooper who said fmr Amb
Wilson’s
wife might’ve sent him on Niger trip
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uraniuam story)
2006 20 people from bus station abducted and executed in
Muqtadiya
2009 VP Hashemi said Baghdad would fight PKK and would form
special units to do so
Mean to
appease Turkey
2014 Naqshibandi leader Izzat al-Dhur welcomed and praised
ISIS role in fighting
against
Maliki govt
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members arrested in Musayib Babil for
kidnapping 28
Sunnis and
killing 20 of them
View the Iraq History Timelines
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