1922 Karbala
conference led to call for war against Wahabis unless compensation paid for
raid in
southern Iraq and Ibn Saud didn’t punish them
1922 Ikhwan invasion
of south Iraq resolved by letters between Iraq and Saudis Ibn Saud apologized
1941 German Foreign
Min Ribbentrop was told Gaylani govt was pro-Axis and Germany working on
getting it arms from region Ribbentrop okayed arms shipments to Iraq
and sabotage in Iraq and region against UK
1941 Germany and
Italy made joint statement of support for PM Gaylani promising military and
financial aid Statement to PM Gaylani encouraged him to confront UK
(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian
Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1972 Pres Bakr
signed 15 yr treaty of friendship with Soviet Union
1980 Saddam deported
9,700 Shiites claiming they were Iranians Later deported another 16,000
1985 UN Sec Gen
deCuellar left Baghdad saying he had not been able to bridge divide between
Iraq and
Iran
1986 Iraq made
another attempt to re-capture Fao Peninsula
1987 Iran started Op
Karbala 9 attacking Qasr e-Shirin central Iran to try to draw Iraqi forces away
from Basra but Iraq didn’t respond
1987 Iran broke
through Iraqi defenses west of Fish Lake Basra Iraq counterattack failed Used
chemical weapons
1987 Dawa attacked
Saddam’s motorcade outside of Mosul to commemorate execution of Ayatollah Baqir
al-Sadr
1990 Saudi Amb to US
Bandar told Pres Bush Saddam would not attack Israel but wanted guarantee that
Israel would not attack Iraq
1990 Bush told Saudi
Amb Bandar that he didn’t understand Saddam’s threats unless he intended to
attack
Israel
1990 Saddam wanted
to make sure his western flank was protected from any Israeli action before he decided
to invade Kuwait
2002 State Dept
started Future of Iraq project bringing together 240 Iraqi exiles to chart out
post-Saddam
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq article on Part I Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction Hard Lessons Planning
for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
2003 Abu Dhabi TV
showed Saddam at Adhamiya Baghdad urging crowd to fight invasion Saddam Qusay
Uday left city that day
2003 Baghdad fell
ending U.S. invasion Looting began in city
2003 Iraqis in
Firdos Square pulled down Saddam statue with help of US Marines
2003 Kurdish
Peshmerga seized Kirkuk
2003 Gen Franks told
Bush war going according to plan Bush wanted to collect info on life under
Saddam
to compare with life after
2003 CENTCOM said
war reached tipping point Iraqis realized Saddam was done
2003 VP Cheney said
Iraqi govt collapsing showing criticism of war was wrong
2003 VP Cheney said
with a little investment Iraq could produce 2-3 mil/bar/day of oil by end of 2003
2003 US intel report
Baathists Fedayeen Iraqi forces operating independently of orders Would
continue to
fight until eliminated
2003 Sadrists held
first Friday prayers reviving tradition of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
2003 US forces
ordered Badr Brigade to disband but didn't
2004 Human Rights
Minister Abdul Turki resigned saying Battle of Fallujah was a violation of
human
rights
2004 1 member of Iraqi
Governing Council boycotted and two others threatened to resign over Battle of
Fallujah
2004 Bremer ordered
end to 1st Battle of Fallujah because of negative publicly and complaints
by Iraqi
politicians
(Musings On Iraq book review The
Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 200,000 Sadrists
and Sunnis rallied at Um al-Qura mosque run by Association of Muslim Scholars
in
Baghdad against US occupation and in solidarity with Fallujah
2004 Bush called
leaders of Poland, Italy and El Salvador to make sure they would keep troops in
Iraq
2004 US contractor
fuel convoy attacked in Abu Ghraib leading Brown & Root to suspend all its
convoys in
Iraq
2006 Babil police
chief said if US troops left province would be civil war next day Said police
not strong
enough to intervene between warring militias
2006 Gen Newbold
wrote in Time problems in Iraq due to “casualness and swagger” by Bush
administration
2007 1920 Revolution
Brigades said ISI was killing civilians and other insurgents
2007 40 religious
scholars formed Council of Ulema of Iraq in Jordan to be religious body for
insurgents
2007 Abu Wael
declared his Sharia Council was breaking away from Ansar al-Sunnah
2007 Barzani said
Kurds main reason Iraq stayed unified
2007 Report militias
burned Sunni neighborhoods in Babil Insurgents burned Sunni and Shiite homes
in Diyala
2008 Fmr Under Sec
of Def Feith claimed that differences between CIA and State Dept vs Pentagon
over
Chalabi screwed up postwar Iraq
2008 Fmr UK Amb to
US Greenstock said US had no real plans for postwar Iraq
2008 Head of Iraqi
intelligence said Iran undermining Sahwa
2008 Iraqi general
complained Iran interfering in Basra by supporting Mahdi Army during Charge of
Knights op
2008 Sunni MPs
called on peshmerga to be disbanded after Maliki said all militias in Iraq
should disarm
2008 Sadr claimed he
consulted with clerics who said he didn’t have to disarm Mahdi Army
2008 Ayatollah
Sistani said he supported govt’s demand to disarm Mahdi Army
2009 Sadr had mass
rally in Baghdad to mark fall of Saddam in 03 and called for US withdrawal
2009 Baghdad said it
was committed to Sahwa but it would purge all those who were Baathist and ISI
infiltrators
2010 Sadrists held
demonstration in Najaf to mark fall of Saddam and protested US occupation
2011 Protests started
in Mosul calling on govt to release prisoners
2011 Protests in
Babil started demanding provincial council disband and better services
2011 Protests started
in Fallujah calling for Fallujah council to disband over corruption and poor
services
2011 Sadr held
anti-US demonstration in Baghdad threatened to bring back Mahdi Army if US
forces didn’t
leave at end of year
2011 Dep PM Mutlaq
compared PM Maliki to Saddam
2011 Speaker Nujafi
said there was no power sharing in Iraq and PM Maliki concentrating authority
in his
hands
2012 KRG cabinet
said that KDP and PUK Interior Ministries were going to unite
2012 ISF attacked
nightclubs and alcohol shops in Baghdad and shut them down
2012 Pres Barzani
said that Baghdad was marginalizing Kurds within ISF and that F-16s could be
used
against KRG
2012 Iraqiya
complained PM Maliki centralizing power
2012 Parliament
committee created to investigate mass arrests in Baghdad before Arab Summit
Never made
report
2012 Parliament
economic committee chairman accused foreign countries of pumping in counterfeit
dinars
into Iraq
2013 Iran delivered
bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed fighting for it in Syria
2013 Gorran rejected
extending Pres Barzani’s term
2013 Turkey said it
was ready to build a pipeline for Kurdish oil exports
2015 Hashd spokesman
denied stories Hashd looting in Tikrit Blamed tribes and individuals
2015 Dep head of
Anbar council said Kataib Hezbollah and Peace Brigades had deployed to
Shjariya, Anbar
Hashd would later claim they were not in Anbar because of PM Abadi and
US
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