1921 Gertrude Bell wrote King Faisal was unpopular and resented
for being
installed
by the British
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
1931 Iraqi newspaper called for one party rule under an
autocrat King Faisal
1980 Iraq began attacking Dezful Ahvaz Khorramshahr in
Khuzistan province
1980 Iraq shelled Abadan refinery largest in world Iran
retaliated with air raids on Iraqi oil
facilities
in Basra Zubayr Mosul Kirkuk
1980 Iranian airstrike on Um Qasr driven off Iraq attacked
Bushehr sinking 4 Iranian
navy ships
Also bombed some tankers trapped in Shatt al-Arab
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
1991 Barzani and Talabani went to Baghdad to negotiate with
Saddam over governance
in
Kurdistan after uprising
1997 Op Dawn Turkey invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK
1997 UN inspectors found Iraqi Food and Drug Examination Lab
in Baghdad worked
on gangrene
since 1980s
1997 UN inspectors attempted to inspect Special Security
Office but denied
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Bush said couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam in war on terror
because they were equally evil
2002 Rice told PBS NewsHour Iraq provided chemical weapons
training to Al Qaeda
Came from
Al Qaeda cmdr Libi who made up story under torture in Egypt
2002 DefSec Rumsfeld and CIA DepDir McLaughlin briefed NATO
defense ministers
on Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties
2002 US and UK worked on draft UN resolution demanding
inspectors return to Iraq
2002 National Intelligence Office for Strategic and Nuclear
Programs had analyst meeting
to draft Natl Intel Estimate on
Iraq CIA and DIA analysts at Natl Intel Estimate meeting said aluminum tubes
Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges and that Iraq reconstitution nuclear
program Energy and State Dept analysts at Natl Intel Estimate meeting said
tubes were for rockets
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Bush said 9/11 changed how he viewed Iraq as a threat
to US
2003 Powell announced 6 month deadline for Iraqis to draft
new constitution
2003 House Intel Comm wrote letter to CIA Dir Tenet
criticizing pre-war intel on Iraq’s
WMD and
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties after review
2003 Baghdad hotel used as base for NBC News bombed 1 guard
killed
2006 Report Iraq had replaced Afghanistan as main training
ground for terrorists Insurgents
from Iraq had gone to Afghanistan
and Pakistan and imported tactics such as car bombs
2006 Report ruling parties agreed to deal to delay
autonomous southern region plan for 18
months
2006 Report DIA found 2005 elections increased sectarian
tensions in Iraq Assessment by
50 counterinsurgency experts in
August found US forces relied too much on force alienating Iraqis
2007 ISI bombed meeting of police sheikhs and leaders of
Hamas of Iraq and 1920
Revolution
Brigades in Baquba
2017 Kurds held independence referendum in three Kurdish
provinces and disputed
areas they
occupied in 2014
(Musings
On Iraq article on KRG referendum)
View the Iraq History Timelines
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