1940 Mufti of Jerusalem who was
living in Baghdad sent proposal to Italy In
return for
supporting Arab nationalism Iraq would block British and give concessions Proposal
was also sent to German ambassador in Rome Amb said Germany willing to give
money and weapons if Italy agreed Italians had given money to Mufti before and
gotten little in return so didn’t believe he could deliver on anything but
agreed to give small amount of money
1944 Iraq and Soviet Union
established diplomatic relations
1980 Iranian F-5 Tiger II jet shot down by an Iraqi MiG-21
1989 Elections held for 50 member Legislative Council in Kurdistan
1990 Joint US-Soviet statement said that Iraq’s aggression
in Kuwait would not stand
1991 UN reported clashes between Kurds and Iraqi army in
Kurdistan 16 dead
1996 KDP captured Sulaymaniya from PUK
1998 UN Resolution 1194 condemned Iraq’s halting of
cooperation with weapons
inspectors
1998 PUK sent delegation to Turkey to try to improve
relations Ankara backed KDP
in civil
war
2002 UK intel report Iraq probably wouldn’t use WMD without
being attacked beforehand
2002 State Dept spokesman mentioned that Iraq tried to buy
aluminum tubes for
centrifuges
for nuke program to reporters
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 Chirac told press needed to be 2 UN resolutions 1 on
inspectors 2nd if Iraq didn’t
comply
2002 Iran’s SupNatlSecCouncil met over impending US invasion
of Iraq Decided on
short and
long term policy to protect Tehran’s interests
2002 Iraqi-American doctor from Cleveland went to Iraq for
CIA to talk to her brother who
worked on Iraq’s nuke program
Brother said program ended in 1991Doctor one of dozens that talked with
relatives in Iraq working on WMD-nuclear programs Info never used in any major
reports CIA thought it was part of Iraqi disinformation campaign
2003 Zarqawi hit US intel base in Irbil with suicide car
bomb killing 3 wounding 54
2003 UnderSecDefforPolicy Feith said Pentagon prepared for
all kinds of
contingencies
for postwar Iraq but they never happened
2004 DepNatlSedAdv Hadley said White House had to come up
with measurements
to
determine success in Iraq Ended with 140
2004 Army inquiry found CIA hid up to 100 ghost detainees in
Iraqi prisons in
Baghdad
2004 Major fighting broke out between US forces and
insurgents in Tal Afar 57
insurgents
killed along with 27 civilians and another 70 wounded
2004 Turkmen claimed 50,000 fled Tal Afar due to fighting
Turksh media claimed Kurds
were replacing Turkmen in town Turkmen
politicians claimed Iraqi National Guard were mostly Kurdish and carrying out
ethnic cleansing in Tal Afar
2004 US made deal with local leaders in Samarra to start
reconstruction projects and
return city
council to office
2006 Sheikh Abu Risha and 50 other sheikhs announced
formation of Anbar Awakening
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Marines Take
Anbar, the Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
2008 Maliki govt denied deal with Kurds to withdraw army and
Peshmerga from
Khanaqin
dist Diyala leaving Kurds still in political control of district
(Musings
On Iraq article on Maliki’s pressuring Kurds in Diyala)
2012 ISI carried out 21 car bombs along with ten other
attacks across 18 cities killing
more than
100
2012 Court sentenced former VP Hashemi to death for alleged
killing of two people in
terrorist
attacks
2014 Peshmerga found 14 Yazidi bodies in a mass grave in
Ninewa
2015 Abadi removed 123 dep ministers and director generals
to cut costs as part of
his reforms
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