1920 Gertrude Bell called
mujtahids a group of popes standing in the way of
British plans
Claimed Shiites were problem in Iraq Said Sunnis should rule Iraq because
Shiites would impose a religions state That was why Mosul province had to be
included in Iraq to add more Sunnis Said that British were looking for Iraqi to
be new ruler but couldn’t find one so had to pick a son of the Sharif of Mecca
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
1932 Iraq gained independence
from Britain
1968 Soviet Union called for negotiations between Baghdad
and KDP rebels
1978 Ayatollah Khomeini left Najaf for Paris after Baghdad
demanded he reject politics
in deal
made with Shah of Iran
1980 Iraq Foreign Minister Hamadi presented Iraq’s case to
UN claiming it acted in self-
defense in
Iran-Iraq War
1980 Khomeini speech said goal of war was to punish the
Baath and rejected negotiations
to end it
1980 Iraq began bombing Tehran
1982 Sudan said it would send troops to help Iraq in
Iran-Iraq War
(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)
1996 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that it hid part of its
missile program and then
secretly
destroyed them in March 92
2002 Bush signed executive order to train 5,000 Iraqi exiles
to help with invasion
2002 US planes dropped flyers over Iraq telling them not to
fight Americans
2002 Report US using No Fly Zones to practice attacking Iraq
2003 Bush said interim report by Iraq Survey Group justified
invasion because found
WMD
programs
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice US went to war with Iraq because most
likely place terrorists could
get WMD
2003 CBS/New York Times poll found 53% of respondents in US
thought Iraq war a
mistake
2003 Report aluminum tubes were one of the main arguments US
had Iraq restarted nuke
program but was always contested
Senior White House officials claimed Rice knew about differences over tubes Administration
overstated argument for tubes
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2006 Report Albu Mahal tribe fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq in
Qaim
2006 Interior Min Bolani ordered commander 8th
Natl Police Bgd and unit suspended
Officer arrested for suspected
involvement in kidnapping of 26 workers in Amil Baghdad 10/1/06 10 later found
dead
2006 US military said 50-70 foreign fighters enter Iraq each
month Jan-Sep 06 US-ISF
captured 630 foreign fighters Total
number of foreign fighters in Iraq est 800-2,000 Most from Saudi Arabia Egypt
Syria
2006 Car bomb on Industry Min motorcade in Baghdad killed 14
wounded 75
2014 Australia authorized air strikes against IS and Special
Forces to be sent to Iraq
2017 Former Iraq President Talabani died
2017 Central Bank of Iraq said it would halt all foreign
currency transfer to KRG and
stop
selling dollars to four Kurdish banks
2017 Parliament said it would not work with 4
telecommunications companies with
contracts in Kurdistan
2017 Parliament threatened to take away immunity for Kurdish
MPs that voted in the
referendum
2017 Kurdish MPs were either blocked or boycotted the
parliamentary session
2017 Report Irbil and Baghdad in secret talks to try to
defuse tensions after referendum
2017 Turkey offered to mediate between Irbil and Baghdad to
end crisis over
referendum
2017 Pres Masum’s office announced that Kirkuk Governor
Karim would stay in office
until his
court challenge over his dismissal was heard
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