1924 Frontier Commission appointed to determine border
between new nation
of Turkey
and Iraq
1958 Agrarian Reform Law issued by Gen Qasim in attempt to
redistribute land from large
landowners
to peasants
1958 Pres Qasim removed Arif as Dep PM and Interior Minister
because he was a threat to
the govt
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini refused all talks with Iraq to end
war Demanded Saddam step
down Iraq had to admit it was
aggressor and pay reparations Basra was to come under Iranian control until
Iraq paid debt Referendum in Kurdistan or autonomy or joining Iran
1980 Iranian air force launched Op Scorch Sword attacking
Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility
Only
minimal damage Iran also bombed Baghdad
1980 Iraqis were stopped outside Dezful Ahvas and Abadan in
Khuzistan province
Allowed
Iran to re-supply and have access to Shatt al-Arab
1980 Soviet’s Brezhnev said Iran and Iraq both friends of
USSR 2 needed to negotiate
end to war
Soviets main military supporter of Iraq
1980 State Dept told Italy’s Foreign Ministry that USSR
turned down request by Iraq
for additional military equipment
(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)
2001 Report Al Qaeda defector said bin Laden did not like
Saddam because of his attacks
upon Muslim
civilians
2001 Iraqi defector told Sunday Telegraph Saddam started
crash program to produce
WMD in six
months
2002 Iraq and UN negotiated new weapons inspections in
Vienna but blocked 8
presidential
sites US rejected deal
2002 NYTimes OpEd by Clinton era counterterrorism official
Benjamin said Saddam
thought bin
Laden a threat and 2 didn’t cooperate
2003 UN Sec Gen Anan said that UN would only renew its role
in Iraq if sovereignty
passed to
an interim govt
2003 Rumsfeld aide ate with Pentagon DefPolBoard member Gingrich
and DepSecDef
Wolfowitz who
were lobbying against Bremer
2003 Gingrich would later say Bremer at CPA was biggest
foreign policy disaster in
recent times
2003 Bush told Justice Dep investigating possible
unauthorized disclosure of
undercover CIA official fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife VP Cheney’s office had leaked her name to press to discredit
Wilson
2003 Constitutional preparatory committee came up with 3
ways to name delegates
to constitutional
committee Couldn’t agree on which to use
2004 Iraq Survey Group final report said aluminum tubes Iraq
tried to buy were for
rockets not
centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2008 Sheikh announced 20 Tribal Support Councils created in
Dhi Qar by PM Maliki
Creation of Tribal Support Councils
in Dhi Qar led to attacks upon sheikhs in political rivalry between SIIC and
Dawa
2014 UK launched first air strikes on IS
2014 Cabinet authorized govt to provide weapons, equipment,
salaries to Hashd
2017 Iraqi military said it was going to take over Kurdish
border posts by stationing
troops on
Turkish and Iranian side
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