1920 San Remo Agreement created British Mandate in Iraq France agreed
to
give up Mosul vilyat
in return for oil concessions in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq book review An
Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary
Movements of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq book review Supremacy
And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1929 Iran officially
recognized Iraq as a country Hadn’t before due to complaints of
mistreatment of Persians in Iraq
1941 Iraq-Italian
treaty signed to provide financial and military aid to Iraq for war against UK
Axis
would get oil concessions and use ports and military bases
(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)
1991 Kurdish parties
agreed to deal with Saddam including autonomy to end
revolt after Gulf War
1991 Turkey told UN
30,000 Iraqi Kurds had entered Turkey in 2 days and 220,000
were on there way as Kurdish
uprising put down
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1994 Iraqi govt
announced completion of Mother of all Battles Irrigation Canal meant to
drain southern marshes to drive out
displaced and rebels
1995 Turkey’s Op
Steel ended Withdrew 20,000 troops but left 15,000 in Kurdistan
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
1998 Was story that
bin Laden sent delegation to Iraq for Saddam’s birthday and
Uday agreed to train Al Qaeda Report
false
2002 For Sec Straw
said UK had to stand up to “bullies” like Saddam
2002 IAEA report
that during inspections in 1990s Iraq’s nuclear program was
dismantled and no ability to produce
nuke material
(Musings On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq
rebuilt its nuclear weapons program)
2003 US arrested
ex-Iraq Amb to Tunisia Farouk Hijazi who reportedly met with Al
Qaeda in 90s and cited as proof of
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 Bush said
Iraq’s WMD were either hidden or were destroyed but US would find
them
2003 White House
official told NY Times Iraq may not have had WMD just agents to
make them
2003 Only Iraqi
policemen to help US in Fallujah executed outside his house
2003 US Cmdr in Iraq
Gen Franks said didn’t know how long it would take to
rebuild and stabilize Iraq
2003 Iraqi
opposition met in Madrid but failed to agree on an interim govt
2004 Rumsfeld said
US troops in Iraq would have tours extended for 3 months
2004 Marine generals
met with Iraqis to discuss creating a Fallujah brigade after 1st
battle of Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq book review The
Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Larry Diamond
worked as democracy expert for CPA said US encouraged Iraqis
to participate in new Iraq but
didn’t provide them security
2005 Iraq Survey
Group found Gulf War and UN sanctions destroyed Iraq’s WMD
programs and Saddam didn’t try to
rebuild them
2005 Iraq Survey
Group found no evidence that Iraq’s WMD were sent to Syria
2005 White House
said Iraq Survey Group found Saddam wanted WMD in the future
2006 Memo by Gen
McCaffrey said that Iraqi army was making real progress but was
badly equipped lacking armor air
support etc
2006 Memo by Gen
McCaffrey said Iraqi police heavily infiltrated by insurgents and
militias Said that Al Qeada in Iraq had been defeated as a strategic
threat to the Iraqi govt
2008 Sadr said he
was only opposed to US occupation not Maliki govt
2008 Report Badr and
Mahdi Army setting up checkpoints and killing each other in Qadisiyah and
Baghdad
2008 Maliki said all
parties supported his crackdown on Sadr and sign of reconciliation
2008 Maliki said if
Sadr disarmed dropped politics turn in wanted militiamen would
stop Charge of Knights
2008 Fmr Under Sec
of Def Feith said he warned of postwar chaos in Iraq but
was ignored and Pentagon was on top
of issue not State or CIA
2009 Gorran List founded
by former PUK leader Mustafa
2009 Shiites protest
in Khalis, Diyala claiming Baathists taking over new provincial
council after elections
2009 Arab tribes in
Makhmour and Qaraj demanded Asayesh withdraw claiming
harassment
2010 Iraqi Airways
flew to London for first time in 20 years
2010 Court upheld
Accountability and Justice Comm banning 52 winning candidates
for Baathist ties
2011 Maliki claimed
power had been decentralized in response to national protests
2011 ISF tried to
stop protesters from gathering in Mosul Led to clash killing 1
demonstrator and wounding 9 others
2011 Protest in
Ramadi demanding US withdrawal close secret prisons and stop
Iranian influence in country
2011 Peshmerga
Minister accused Kurdistan Islamic Group and Kurdistan Islamic
Union of being saboteurs and
fostering jihadists
2011 Kurdistan
Islamic Union said KRG had cut its monthly budget
2011 Soldiers and
KDP security got into shoot out in Kirkuk City after brother 12th
Div
commander killed a taxi driver and was arrested
2011 Speaker Nujafi
said Iraq didn’t need US troops anymore and any extension would have to go
through
parliament
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2012 Accordance
Front and Iraqiya threatened no confidence vote against Maliki unless
he followed Irbil power sharing agreement
2012 Pres Barzani
said that unless Maliki shared power would be a revolt by
other ruling parties Said Maliki was
like a dictator
2013 Maliki gave TV
speech saying security would be restored after ISF attack
on Hawija protest site led to spike
in violence
2013 Heavy fighting
in Mosul 10 police and 31 insurgents killed
2014 Boko Haram
pledged support to ISIS
2014 US sent
intelligence officers to assist Iraq with fighting insurgency, started
training Iraqi Special Forces in
Jordan
2014 KRG offered
North Oil Company to use its pipeline to Turkey
2014 Report that
insurgents were split over whether to support elections or not
2015 PM Abadi said
Hashd should include all Iraqis from all backgrounds
2015 Kudish Alliance
said opposed National Guard in disputed areas because
peshmerga could secure them
2015 Yazidi militia
leader Haider Sesho said that Yazidis would form their own
party in Sinjar and be independent
of KDP
2015 IS took over
army base in Thar Thar, Anbar 141 soldiers killed in fighting
2017 Turkey bombed
PKK positions in Sinjar Ninewa
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