1941 Britain told
Iraq that troops would be landing in Basra soon under Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1941 PM Gaylani agreed
to allow British troops landing in Basra but demanded that they immediately set
out for Palestine or Egypt
1941 German letter
arrived saying it would support Iraq revolt against British
(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)
1968 Baath Nasserites
and other army officials called for coalition govt return of parliament
dismissal of PM
Yahya
1969 Shah
unilaterally voided 1937 treaty over Shatt al-Arab Iraq took issue to UN Iran refused
to go to
court over matter probably knowing it would lose
1969 Shah decided to
give military support ot Kurds to put political pressure on Pres Bakr over
Shatt al-
Arab
1972 Bakr offered
limited cultural rights to Assyrians under Law 251 in continued outreach
program to
community considered important counter to Kurds and trying to split
them away from KDP Govt didn't fully implement law
1987 Iraqi planes
dropped poison gas on Sheikh Wasan and Balisan villages killing over 100
civilians
1988 Iraq offensive
to recapture Fao Peninsula Basra from Iran began Largest Iraq land offensive
since 1986
Used nerve and mustard gas
1990 White House met
to discuss limiting military equipment sales to Iraq
1991 Pres Bush said
that US would set up relief camps in Kurdistan to help refugees after Saddam
put
down revolt
1991 Bush said UN
sanctions on Iraq would stay until Saddam removed from power
1991 State Dept met
with Iraqi opposition including Ahmed Chalabi for first time
1991 Baghdad and
Kurds announced ceasefire and start of talks
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
2002 NSC meeting
talked about training Iraqi exiles for help with invasion
2003 Genk Franks
issued declaration to Iraqi people saying US would only be there temporarily
2003 Gen Franks
announced that Baath Party was no more in Iraq
2003 Gen Franks
ordered withdrawal order for 60-120 days for US troops to drop from 175,000 to
30,000 by
Aug 03
2003 Gen Franks told
his staff that an interim Iraqi govt would be created in 30-60 days
2003 US Central
Command made official announcement that America was the authority in Iraq
2003 Congress
appropriated $2.475 bil for rebuilding Iraq as part of Iraq Relief and
Reconstruction Fund
2003 Report Kurds
were forcing Arabs out of Kirkuk city
2003 INC’s Chalabi
arrived in Baghdad and set up office in Hunting Club
2003 US forces
captured Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas Claimed proved Saddam backed terrorism
2003 Dep head of
SCIRI Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim returned to Iraq from Iran with 4,000-5,000
Badr
militiamen
2004 2 weeks 12,000
members of the Iraq Civil Defense Corps quit during insurgent offensive and
Sadrist
uprising
2006 Report Iranian
Revolutionary Guard set up camp in Diyala to train militias
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on
history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq book review Vanguard
of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2006 CIA report
Karbala police chief made deals with Sadr to attack US forces Gave them police
IDs to get
through checkpoints
2006 GAO report US
worried Iraq didn’t have money or know how to run 8,000 reconstruction projects
2006 GAO report As
of June 2005 $52 mil of $200 mil completed large scale water projects not
working or
below capacity due to looting lack of power no trained Iraqi staff
2006 GAO report
$13.5 mil Karkh sewage treatment plant in Baghdad not operating $32 mil garbage
landfill in south Baghdad not operating after manager killed
2006 GAO report
40-60% of purified water never used in Baghdad because of leaks in system
2007 Sadrist
ministers boycotted cabinet to protest US occupation
2007 3,000 protested
in Basra over lack of services Demanded governor resign
2007 Report Mahdi
Army moved into southwest Diyala Thousands of Shiites killed and displaced from
Baquba Sunnis kicked out of Baghdad by militias moved into Baquba US
repeatedly reported ISF attacking Sunnis in Diyala
2007 Ret Gen Sheehan
Wash Post OpEd on why he turned down Iraq-Afghan manager in Bush White
House Said after talking with officials found no Iraq strategy Said 3
separate views going on at once One was making incremental improvements over
long period Another was focusing upon security with time constraint Third was
placing Iraq within overall Middle East strategy
2008 Accordance
Front announced that it would end its boycott of cabinet
2008 Integrity
Committee said it was investigating corruption in arms deal with Serbia
2008 Around 50 Iraqi
soldiers abandoned their units during fighting against Mahdi Army in Sadr City
2008 Maliki said
$100 mil would be spent to rebuild Basra after Charge of Knights offensive
2008 Dep Foreign Min
said Baghdad was worried about Iran’s support of Mahdi Amy and other militias
2008 Maliki made
major concessions to Kurds agreeing to change oil law and allow Kurds
independent oil
deals Never happened
2008 Gen Petraeus
told Congress that Charge of Knights was not well planned op by Iraqis
2010 Maliki said new
government would include Allawi’s Iraqiya Iraqiya said it won so it should be
only
party trying to put together new government
2010 State of Law
said it and National Alliance would soon merge into one list
2011 Fin Min
investigated charges of $17 bil dinars being embezzled from Central Bank of
Iraq Nothing
came of inquiry
2011 Iraqiya accused
Baghdad Operations Command of trying to limit protests
2011 Anbar council
announced deal to end arbitrary arrests in province after negotiations with
Maliki
2011 Iraqiya
threatened no confidence vote against Maliki claiming his govt was a failure
2011 Allawi said
Iraqiya would withdraw from govt if power sharing agreement wasn’t impelemented
by
Maliki
2011 Kurdish
security forces started arresting over 300 protesters in Sulaymaniya
2012 Report Maliki
had shut out his adviser for Kurdish Affairs Adel Barwari
2012 Iraqiya in
talks with Kurdish Alliance and members of National Coalition to remove Maliki
2012 State of Law
said it would run on its own and not with other Shiite parties in 2013 provincial
vote
2012 Integrity
committee said it voted on dismissing Baghdad’s mayor Issawi for wasting money
on fake
contracts
2012 Dep PM Mutlaq
announced that 1100 prisoners would be released as concession by Maliki
2013 500 protested
at West Qurna 2 oil field demanding jobs and benefits from Lukoil that ran site
2015 PM Abadi said
all the pictures of Iranian Gen Suleimani in Iraq sent the wrong message that
Iran was
saving Iraq instead of Iraqis
2015 Anbar Governor
Rawi called on Hashd to be sent to province to help fight IS 3000 Hashd sent to
Ramadi to help
2015 IS said to be
in control of 70% of Ramadi
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