1920 All of Upper Euphrates modern day Anbar was under
British control during
1920 Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Reclaiming
Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1980 Lack of progress in Iran invasion led Iraq to announce
unilateral ceasefire
only 2
weeks into war Iran didn’t comply
1982 Sec of State Shultz and Soviet For Min Gromyko met and
agreed Iran-Iraq
War
should end as soon as possible
(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)
1990 Hosni Mubarak said Iraq and Israel had secret meetings
in 1987 and 1989 facilitated
by US
academic Laurie Mylroie
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
1997 PUK accused Turkey of arming KDP in return for help
against PKK
1999 UN Res 1266 allowed Iraq to export $3.04 bil in oil
under Oil for Food Program
2002 Unclassified version of CIA’s report on Iraq’s WMD
released by White House
Dropped most of the reservations in
original Said were disputes within intelligence community over Iraq’s nuke program
Said most believed aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Others for rockets
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 CIA told NSC to remove reference to Iraq trying to buy
uranium from Niger from
Bush speech
2002 CIA’s National Intel Officer told Senate Intel Comm he questioned
Iraq-Africa
uranium
story in British dossier
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood said that U.N.
needed to act on Iraq to
give legal
justification for war otherwise British forces could be sued
2002 Intel officials complained to press that White House pressured
them on reports
on Iraq
2002 Report Institute for Science and International
Technology, Lawrence Livermore
Lab said
didn’t believe aluminum tubes for centrifuges
2002 Report claimed White House ignored contradictory views
on Iraq Pushed US intel
to come up
with more on Iraq
2003 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Sanchez said insurgency had evolved
and gotten deadlier
2003 Last day CPA paid ex-Iraqi soldiers turned into violent
demonstrations in Baghdad
and other
cities 3 killed by US and British troops
2004 Car Bombs in Baghdad’s Green Zone and Mosul killed 21
Wounded 90
2004 CIA review found no connection between Saddam and
Zarqawi as White House
claimed
2006 Report US military said Mahdi Army running death squds
out of hospitals and
Baghdad morgue Murdered patients
Using ambulances to move men weapons hostages around Sadr Health Min Shammari
said he welcomed any investigation into his ministry
2006 US military said bomb attacks in Baghdad had reached
all time high
2006 Report British forces in south found no evidence of
Iranian weapons crossing into
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of
Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2007 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told Pentagon officials Maliki
opposed to Sahwa plan
and wanted
to control them
2014 IS threatened to kill US aid worker Peter Kassig
because of US air strikes
2017 Iran’s President Rouhani said his country would not
support the division of Iraq
Said Kurds
made wrong decision to hold independence referendum
2017 Turkey’s President Erdogan said that Kurdish referendum
was illegal
2017 Central Bank of Iraq said it would ease easing
financial restrictions imposed on
Kurdistan
day before over independence referendum
View the Iraq History Timelines
No comments:
Post a Comment