1925 UK Colonial Secretary
wrote Arab elites knew Iraq was being held together by British
1935 Iraq air force
bombed rebel villages in Diwaniya held by Abu Hassan Bani Zurayij and Zawalim
tribes
1941 British forces left
Haifa, Palestine heading for Habaniya, Anbar
1941 More British
planes landed as reinforcements at Habaniya air base
1941 German military
aid began arriving from Syria by train Stored in Mosul but never used
1941 German diplomat
Dr. Grobba arrived in Baghdad along with 3 German planes and 20,000 Pounds for
PM Gaylani
(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 1941, The
Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1982 Iranian Op Bait
al-Moqaddas Took Husseiniya and pushed Iraqis to border in Khuzistan province
Saddam ordered retreat to Khorramshahr across from Basra
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1985 Iran launched
attack into southern Iraq marshes to seize Basra-Baghdad highway
1991 UK PM Major
said was against ending UN sanctions on Iraq until Saddam overthrown
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1991 CIA hired
Rendon Group for propaganda ops in Iraq Would help create Iraqi National
Congress
2002 Gen Franks
briefed Bush on war plans at Camp David Said he would attack Iraq on 5 fronts:
west for
special operations south would be main invasion front from Kuwait north
would be Turkey if it agreed to be involved center would be Baghdad attacked by
air strikes and last would be information campaign
(Musings On Iraq book review of Shaping
the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence
Assessment)
2003 UK envoy to
Iraq said US had no leadership no strategy for rebuilding Iraq
2003 Report US
military team searching for Iraq’s WMD found nothing
2003 UN report Iraq
farming could collapse threatening widespread hunger
2004 Zarqawi
released video of himself beheading US hostage Nick Berg Zarqawi claimed
revenge for Abu
Ghraib abuses
2004 Bush put
training of new Iraqi security forces under CENTCOM
2004 Bush signed
NSPP 35 okayed 1st interagency plan to rebuild Iraq Happened year
after invasion ended
2004 Bush signed
NSPP 36 giving State Dept control of Iraq after CPA closed
2004 Conspiracy
theorist Mylroie claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague in
2001 after
story discredited
2004 Report Red
Cross pointed out only 600 out of 43,000 Iraqis arrested by US in 03 went to
court
2005 Congress
approved $5.3 bil to rebuild Iraqi security forces
2010 US arrested
Kataib Hezbollah commander accused of attacking US and Iraq forces
2010 Report that Gen
Suleimani helped negotiate State of Law-National Alliance merger into National
Coalition
2011 PM Maliki said
US forces could stay past end of year if ruling parties agreed
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2011 Tribes in Basra
threatened revolt if US forces stayed past end of year
2012 PM Maliki said
Turkey was not respecting Iraq
2014 Gen Austin and
US diplomats met Maliki who asked for drones and air strikes Obama turned him
down
2014 Protest in
Basra about lack of electricity
2014 ISIS spokesman
Adnani released video saying ISIS was following true path of Al Qaeda while
Zawahiri had split the jihadist movement and only cared about promoting
himself
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 Kataib
Hezbollah attacked SIIC office in Basra accusing official of corruption
2016 3 suicide car
bombs in Baghdad killed 113 wounded 187 Deadliest day in years in Iraq
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