1916 Ottomans defeated
the British at Battle of Kut after 4 months captured 13,000 prisoners
British lost 33,000 casualties One of largest UK defeats in WWI
1941 More British
troops from 20th Inf Brigade arrived in Basra Iraq protested
1941 British
Ambassador told British women and children to leave Baghdad because of expected
war
with Iraq
1941 PM Gaylani sent
Iraqi forces to British air base at Habaniya Anbar 11th Inf Brigade
ordered to
Baghdad to later be deployed to Anbar UK Emb in Baghdad informed UK
forces in Habaniya Iraqi army heading their way
1941 Iraqis flooded
Habaniya area limiting movement of British troops there Occupied Kirkuk oil
fields Cut oil to Haifa and restarted flow to Lebanon for Vichy France
that could be used by Axis
(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)
1948 Battle of
Katamon began between Jewish forces attacking Iraqi volunteers and Arab Legion
in 1st
Arab-Israeli War
1954 Arshad al-Umari
became premier 2nd time
1959 Communist
central committee demanded power sharing within Qasim govt
1969 Iraq condemned
Shah of Iran for unilaterally ending 1937 border treaty over Shatt al-Arab
waterway
1981 Amnesty Intl
report interviewed 15 Iraqis exiles detailing torture methods used by govt
1986 Iran launched
counterattack along 3 fronts in Basra Advanced up road to Um Qasr and north
along
Fao Peninsula Caused 4000 Iraqi casualties
1986 Iraq launched
counterattack to stop Iran Al Fajr 9 outside Rawanduz Kurdistan
1994 Iraqi army
launched new military campaign to drive out displaced and rebels from southern
marshes
1994 Sec State
Christopher said Iraq complying with UN Res 687 was not enough to end sanctions
Contradicted resolution
2002 Pentagon
official said 9/11 hijacker met with Iraqi intel officer in Prague Didn’t
happen
2003 2nd anti-American
protests in Fallujah Threw rocks at US troops who fired into crowd killing 3
wounding 16
(Musings On Iraq book review The
Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2003 50 former
British ambassadors and senior officials wrote letter to Blair criticizing having
no plan for
post-invasion Iraq
2003 ORHA head
Garner told White House flying frozen Iraqi assets to pay for salaries and
pensions helped
stabilize Iraq
2004 US announced
end of Battle of Fallujah Would withdraw turn over security to Fallujah Brigade
2004 Sheikh Jabani’s
brother and 3 kids kidnapped in Fallujah for fighting insurgents
(Musings On Iraq book review The
Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2005 Gen Vines
issued order for US troops to stop and report any cases of abuse by Iraqi
forces
2007 Report Spec
Insp Gen for Iraq Recon looked at 8 US projects 7 were not operating or had
major
problems Power station for Baghdad airport had $11.8 mil spent on
generators $8.6 mil worth not operating Hospital in Irbil had incinerator for
waste locked and key lost Dumped waste into sewage system contaminating local
water system Water purification system at hospital broke Oxygen system not used
by staff that didn’t know how it worked Special Forces barracks in Baghdad had
4 generators broken due to no maintenance and supply pipes had been stolen Spec
Insp Gen had warned that US was leaving projects for Iraqis that could not be
maintained and were waste of money
2008 2nd
ISCI and Dawa delegation went to Iran to meet Sadr and Gen Suleimani to
negotiate ceasefire
2008 MPs found
torture at Karbala prison overcrowding in Babil ones
2008 Accordance
Front sent list of candidates to replace their vacant ministers in cabinet PM Maliki
rejected some of them
2008 Turkey’s
Foreign Minister said Ankara wanted better relations with KRG
2008 Fmr Dep Sec of
Def Wolfowitz said Bush admin never expected an insurgency in Iraq
2008 Female suicide
bomber attacked bus stop in Muqtadiya Another female suicide bomber attacked
Sahwa in Abu Said both in Diyala
2009 Police sent by
Integrity Comm to arrest Trade Min Sudani for corruption got into shootout with
guards in Baghdad
2009 Interior
Ministry said ISI had successfully penetrated ISF and used agents to carry out
attacks
2010 PM Maliki said
that there were no secret prisons in Iraq after one at Muthanna Airport prison
was
revealed Claimed that torture victims at Muthanna prison gave
themselves scars to fake abuse
2010 US accused Iran
of using Hezbollah to carry out attacks against its forces in Iraq
2010 Sadrists said PM
Maliki could not get a second term as premier
2011 Obama’s National
Security Adviser suggested 10,000 US troops stay in Iraq after withdrawal
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2011 Sadr threatened
to bring back Mahdi Army if US forces stayed past end of year
2011 KRG security
forces arrested one of top protest leaders in Sulaymaniya
2011 Anbar
councilman Fallujah police chief and other officials arrested in Anbar Anbar
Ops Command
and PM Maliki blamed
2012 Pres Barzani
told US he objected to selling F-16s to Baghdad Said didn’t trust PM Maliki
with them
2013 PM Maliki and
Pres Barzani agreed on 7 point program to repair relations between Baghdad and
Irbil
2013 ISIS set off 2
car bombs in central Karbala 2 car bombs in Amarah 1 car bomb in Diwaniya
2013 Turkmen in
Kirkuk demanded peshmerga withdraw from disputed areas
2014 ISIS took
credit for suicide bombing of PUK rally in Khanaqin, Diyala that killed 30
2014 Report that US
intel believed Maliki getting re-elected PM would divide Iraq more
2016 Protests in
Baghdad Basra Najaf Qadisiya Maysan Karbala Dhi Qar Muthanna against corruption
and
sectarian quotas in govt
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