1914 Ottomans defeated by British at Battle of Qurna and
surrendered Basra province
1958 Former PM Rashid Ali al-Gaylani arrested by Gen Qasim
for plotting a coup
1985 Saudis announced attempts at talks with Iran to end
Iran-Iraq War failed
(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)
1998 Over 5 days Iraqis banned three inspections at
biological and chemical sites and Baath Party
HQ
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2001 VP Cheney told NBC 9/11 hijacker Atta meeting with Iraq
intel officer in Prague was pretty
much confirmed Said Iraq hosting
terrorists and developing WMD
2002 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood wrote paper saying
UN Resolution 1441 did not
authorize war with Iraq
2002 UK Foreign Office officially asked Attny Gen Lord
Goldsmith for legal advice on whether 2nd
UN resolution needed to use force
against Iraq
2002 Blair ForPolAdv Manning MI6 head Dearlove met NatlSecAdv
Rice Said start 03 US would go
to UN and argue for military action
vs Iraq
2002 UN inspectors found Fallujah II chlorine plant out of service
US listed it as WMD site
2003 Suicide Car bomb on Mosul camp wounded 41 US troops and
6 Iraqi civilians
2004 22 parties including Dawa SCIRI Sadrists INC announced
formation of United Iraqi Alliance
for Jan 2005 elections Ayatollah
Sistani helped form list
2004 Iraqi Islamic Party submitted 275 candidates for Jan
2005 elections Would be only major Sunni
party to participate
2004 Bush told families his govt was getting best equipment
for US troops in Iraq after Rumsfeld
downplayed complaints
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq statement said Shiites were supporting
crusaders in Iraq Called Ayatollah
Sistani a collaborator Attacked
Iraqi forces fighting in Fallujah Said that Kurds and Christians were working
with the Shiites and called Iraqi Islamic Party hypocrites
2005 Report Al Qaeda’s Libi’s intel about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
that proved false was acquired while he
was being tortured by Egyptians Feb
02 DIA said they were skeptical of his intel while he was in Egypt Libi was
highest level Al Qaeda member held by US at time Made statements about Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties while in US custody but gave most detailed reports while in Egypt
Those were later used by Bush administration in its case for war
2005 United Iraqi Alliance breaking up into factions after
elections Complaints that it hadn’t
presented a vision for Iraq because
not using qualified people
2006 After 3 Sunni families killed by Mahdi Army mass exodus
of Sunnis began out of Baghdad’s
Hurriya
2006 Pres Talabani called US training program a failure Denounced
plans to increase trainers as
putting ISF under foreign control
2006 NSC meeting US Cmdr Iraq Gen Casey told Bush Maliki
agreed to go after militias that broke
law
2006 Report Chief Justice of Saudi Supreme Judicial Council
was videotaped in govt mosque in
2004 calling on young Saudis to go
fight US in Iraq because it was fighting Muslims
2017 PM Abadi announced victory over the Islamic State
View the Iraq History Timelines
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