1920 All but 1 policeman abandoned his job in Suq al-Shuyuk
during 1920
Revolt
Forced British to withdraw from town
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of
the Modern State)
1922 UK Colonial Secretary Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George
UK position in Iraq
tenuous Wrote Iraqi officials
fouling up some provinces Iraq likely to face another budget deficit
Differences with US meant Iraq oil not developed Said British had to keep
troops in Mosul due to threat from Turkey Argued that England should withdraw
from Iraq because too costly
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq)
1954 PM Said started crackdown on opposition Withdrew
nationality from Communists
Allowed
prosecution of Communist supporters Limited rights of political parties
1970 Iraq said it supported Palestinians when Jordanian govt
attacked them
1986 Iranian Revolutionary Guard frogmen captured Umaya oil
platform in Basra
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1996 KDP and Iraqi Republican Guard captured Irbil from PUK Iraqi
and KDP intel
rounded up
opponents including PUK SCIRI INC members Executed 200
2001 Mullah Krekar founded Jund al-Islam that would become
Ansar al-Islam in
Sulaymaniya
province
2002 Fmr Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said that
he was scared that Richard
Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were
arguing that Iraq invasion would be asy Said he was scared that U.S. would get
bogged down in Iraq because hadn’t planned for it well
2003 Saddam tape played on 2 TV channels Said he was not
responsible for Zarqawi car
bomb in
Najaf that killed Ayatollah Hakim
2003 1st post-Saddam cabinet appointed by Iraqi
Governing Council
2004 Mass grave discovered Hatra with hundreds of Kurdish bodies
killed during
Anfal in
1980s
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2005 Operation Restoring Rights started to clear Tal Afar
2006 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told Iraq Survey Group insurgency had
to be destroyed
but
militias legitimate because political
2006 Report Sunnis and Shiites fighting over north and south
entrances to Baghdad in
Sadr City
Dora and Sadiya
2008 Security in Anbar turned over to Iraqi forces Was 11th
of 18th provinces to come
under
Baghdad’s control
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar handover)
2014 ISF recaptured Suleiman Beq, Salahaddin
2014 German cabinet voted to arm the Peshmerga
2014 Yazidi villages of Kotan, Hareko Kharag Shafrsky in
Ninewa were burned by IS
2015 Hashd leader Muhandis and Badr head Amiri visited Chief
Justice Medhat saying
they fully
supported him
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Khazali said merging Kirkuk with
Kurdistan was dangerous
and
threatened to use force to stop it
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