This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 16

1914 British forces attacked Ottomans in Zain, Basra

1914 Leading Iraqi cleric Sayid Kadhim al-Yazidi gave speech in Najaf telling people to

            defend Islam against British and provide money

1918 UK commissioner for Iraq Arnold Wilson wrote that Iraqis were happy with

British occupation

1922 PM Gaylani’s second govt resigned

1922 UK cabinet voted to keep Mosul province as part of Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)

1930 Iraqi parliament ratified new Anglo-Iraq treaty ending British mandate but maintained British

influence

1961 Mustafa Barzani asked for UN aid to Kurds

1980 Iraq sent letter to the Iran saying Baghdad was still following 1975 Algiers Accord on Shatt al-

Arab and Tehran was violating it  

(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)

2004 Major fighting in 2^nd Battle of Fallujah said to be over

2005 Cheney said people that claimed US lied about causes of Iraq war undermined the troops

2005 White House rebutted NYTimes editorial that questioned pre-war WMD argument for Iraq war

2005 Sunni MP Falluji accused Iraqi forces of carrying out sectarian extra judicial killings

2005 US-Iraq Op Steel Curtain to clear Qaim Anbar ended

2006 Govt issued arrest warrant for Harith al-Dhari head of the Muslim Scholars Association for

            inciting violence

2006 White House leaked to press that it was thinking of a troop surge in Iraq

2006 Rumsfeld asked Gen Casey what was going on with National Police Casey said training was

doing good but not their performance

2013 Erdogan met Barzani in Turkey and asked for his help with Kurdish vote in Turkey’s 2014

elections Asked Barzani to found a Turkish Kurdish party

2014 IS posted video of execution of American aid worker Peter Kassig

2017 NYTimes report Coalition airstrikes led to far higher civilian casualties than

            authorities admitted to

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