1914 British launched second attack on Ottoman forces in
Zain, Basra
1963 Pres Arif and brother Gen Arif and army put down Baath
National Guard militia in Baghdad
Mosul and Kirkuk
1963 Pres Arif removed Baathists from positions in govt
including PM Bakr
1968 KDP called on UN to intervene in Iraq during Kurdish
revolt
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The
Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of
Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1973 Communists said they would stop anti-KDP propaganda
campaign attacking it as feudal party
and capitalist tool
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star
Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1979 Naji Suwaidi became premier of Iraq
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with Iraqis trying
to convince them to cooperate with
weapons inspectors
1998 UN inspections began again in Iraq with goal of causing
a confrontation to justify US bombing
2002 New UN inspectors arrived in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2005 House Republicans attacked Democrats for trying to cut
and run in Iraq by backing withdrawal
US policy was withdrawal
2005 Al Qaeda in Iraq bombed Shiite mosque in Khanaqin
Diyala 74 dead
2005 Study 90-96% of insurgency were Iraqis only 4-10%
foreign fighters
2006 Pentagon and Joint Chiefs papers on Iraq said US should
follow Gen Casey plan to withdraw
turn things over to Iraqis Joint
Chiefs paper said Iraq falling into civil war US strategy not working
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 US intel report on Iraq said US had no good options in
Iraq
2006 VP Cheney’s office memo on Iraq said US should back
Shiites and Kurds and forget about
Sunnis
2008 US signed Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq that set
12/31/11 withdrawal date for US
forces
View the Iraq History Timelines
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