1927 UK official wrote ForSec Chamberlain saying UK got Mosul by trick
Promised 25 yr Iraq
Mandate Now pushing Iraq independence
1939 King Ghazi’s death publicly announced PM Said resigned
1941 British called
new Gaylani govt illegal and distributed copies of message by Regent to resist
1941 Ultra intel in
UK intercepted message from Italian amb in Tehran that Rome and Berlin were
going to send arms to Iraq via Syria
1941 UK Chiefs of
Staff asked Middle East cmdr Gen Wavell how many troops he could spare for
Iraq
(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 Port of Basra
strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1980 Ayatollah
Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr arrested in Najaf by Saddam
1981 Iran bombed
Iraq’s H3 airbase near Syria Destroyed 23 planes and 4 helicopters 15 other
planes
damaged 6 senior Iraqi officers were executed after raid
1981 Iran said it wouldn’t
negotiate a ceasefire with Saddam
1981 Head of US
Interests Section in Iraq said that US and Iraq were growing closer
1983 Iraq offered 1
day ceasefire in order to clean up oil spill Iran rejected offer
1991 Report Pres
Bush gave CIA okay to support opposition in Iraq led to creation of Voice of
Free Iraq
radio station run by Saudis
1991 Britain offered
$37 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
1991 Turkey said it
couldn’t support Kurdish refugees flowing into country so shut border 10,000
crossed
into Turkey 80,000 held at border
2002 UK intel
officials claimed that Blair decided that WMD and Saddam were not good argument
for
going to war in Iraq
2003 3rd
Inf Div captured Saddam International Airport in Baghdad Fedayeen Saddam counterattack
turned
back Took 3 days to clear airport Saddam finally accepted US would
attack Baghdad
2003 US forces sent
to southern Baghdad to destroy Republican Guard units but they fled instead of
fighting
2003 Saddam appeared
on Iraqi TV touring Baghdad neighborhood
2003 Information
Minister Sahaf finally admitted US forces were in Baghdad at airport
2003 US forces hit by female suicide car bomb
at Haditha Dam Women had made video beforehand aired on Al Jazeera
2003 Blair sent
letter to Iraqi people saying Saddam would fall and Coalition would not be in
Iraq longer
than necessary
2003 Power surge
knocked out most of the power in Baghdad Would be out for weeks after war over
2003 Natl Sec Adv
Rice said US wanted a democratic Iraq with no WMD that would not be threat to
neighbors
(Musings
On Iraq book review America at the
Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Wanting War: Why
the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
2004 Sadrists rose
up in Baghdad Najaf Kut Karbala Kufa Nasiriya against US Ambushed US patrol in
Sadr
City killing 8 Americans
(Musings
On Iraq book review Battle For The
City Of The Dead)
2004 80% of one
Iraqi National Guard battalion and 70% of another deserted in Baghdad in 1st
day of
fighting Mahdi Army
2004 40% of police
in Najaf and Kut fled when Sadrists rose up in 2 cities
2004 Fighting
between Mahdi Army and Spanish in Najaf left 200 Iraqi casualties
2004 Polish battalion
held Karbala city hall but rest of city fell to Mahdi Army
2004 Italian
governor of Dhi Qar made deal with Mahdi Army to stay in base while militia
took Nasiriyah
2004 CPA created
Ministerial Committee for National Security in Iraqi govt
2004 UN special
envoy Brahimi arrived in Iraq to help put together interim govt
2004 Operation
Vigilant Resolve launched by Marines starting 1st battle of Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq book review The
Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2005 Outgoing Inter
Min Naqib warned US if SCIRI got Inter Min would fill it with Badr militiamen
which
it did
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke former Interior Min adviser
on how militias took over Iraqi police)
2006 Report Inter
Min refused to deploy any police trained by US-UK mission in last 3 months
because
didn’t control recruits
2007 Report US
arrested Dep Health Min Zamili in Feb Accused of taking kicksbacks for
equipment orders
at ministry with money funneled to Sadrists 15 warrants for ministers
for corruption not served MP Jabouri in hiding accused of stealing $7 mil for
pipeline security force he created Allawi Defense Min Shaalan facing $1 bil in
corruption charges
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen
on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2008 Maliki said he
would stop raids against Sadrists
2008 Maliki said he
didn’t negotiate ceasefire with Sadr but Iran did
2008 Sadr said he
would recruit 10,000 local tribesmen into security forces in Basra after Charge
of Knights
2009 Maliki said
that Baathists and ISI had infiltrated Sahwa
2009 Sahwa leader in
Baghdad said govt was out to destroy Sahwa
2009 Sheikh Abu
Risha said he would run with State of Law in provincial elections
2010 3 car bombs on
Iranian Egyptian and German Embassies in Baghdad killed 41
2011 Baghdad
Operations Command accused Harith al-Dhari head of Muslim Scholars Association
of being
behind assassinations in Baghdad
2011 Day of Dignity
protests in Baghdad
2011 Opposition
parties walked out of KRG parliament when Peshmerga and Interior ministers refused
to
appear for questioning over treatment of Sulaymaniya protests
2011 Sulaymaniya
protesters called on KRG government to resign
2012 Dep PM
Shahristani told Kirkuk governor had to stop oil smuggling to KRG
2012 State of Law MP
accused Kurds of trying to prevent army from buying new equipment
2012 Maliki sent
envoy to try to improve ties with Turkey but failed
2013 Turkey said it
was willing to split payments of oil exports between Baghdad and Irbil
2015 Great Tikrit
Mosque set on fire after city freed Tribes demanded Hashd withdraw from area
2016 Kurdish
Alliance said it would not vote on any ministers it didn’t nominate
2016 Allawi said if
new govt was to be nonpartisan than Abadi had to resign too along with his
cabinet
2017 Kirkuk council
called for referendum to integrate province into KRG
2018 Pres Masum
filed lawsuit over 2018 budget saying it violated the constitution
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