1915 British forces
moved north to try to encircle Ottoman forces in Qurna
1935 Muntafiq tribe joined revolt against monarchy
1941 Iraq told
German ambassador to Turkey that it agreed to Turkish offer to mediate with
England
1941 Golden Square
officers rejected Turkey’s offer to mediate and threatened to shoot PM Gaylani
He
offered to resign Mufti of Jerusalem had to intervene
1941 1st trainload
of Nazi German war supplies from Vichy France controlled Syria arrived in Mosul
to
support PM Gaylani’s govt Never used
1941 British forces
bombed Syrian-Mosul railway to try to block Axis aid to Iraq
1941 Jordanians from
Palestine arrived at Fort Rutba in Anbar
1941 German planes
attacked British forces at Habaniya air base 1 British plane shot down by
German
plane over Mosul
1941 Egyptian Chief
of Staff Gen Masri arrested while attempting to fly to Iraq to join fight vs
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 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 Security Council asked Khomeini’s permission to
enter Iraq but denied
1983 Tariq Aziz went
to Paris to ask for new arms deal with France
1984 Iran attacked
Kuwait tanker carrying Iraqi oil in Persian Gulf Was retaliation for Iraq
attacks on Iranian
oil industry
1987 UN
investigation said Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians
1991 Kurds attacked
police station in Zakho
1997 Iraqi army
clashed with Bani Said tribe in southern Iraq
2002 Sec Def
Rumsfeld said US didn’t need to connect Iraq and 9/11 to go to war Said main
reason was
WMD
2003 CPA official
briefed British of plan to disband Iraqi army and build a new one Brits didn’t
object
2003 White House
official said Iraq may not have had stocks of WMD but just capability to make
them
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld
told Bremer he would be responsible for temporary governing of Iraq
2003 Mass grave of 15,000
victims of 1991 uprising found in Mahawil, Babil
2004 Joint Chiefs
head Gen Pace told Senate US interrogation methods used in Iraq violated Geneva
Conventions
2007 Abu Musah arms
supplier to Iranian backed Special Groups arrested
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2007 Jihad and
Reform Front got into gun battle with ISI in Baghdad
2007 Fmr CPA head
Bremer wrote OpEd in Wash Post defending decisions to ban Baath Party and
disband
military Said Iraqi army ahd disbanded itself and Shiite and Kurdish
leaders wanted it gone Said right to ban Baath Party US was only doing what it
did in Germany with Nazis after WW2 Said it was Iraqis that abused
deBaathification but CPA stopped them
2008 ISF raided Sadr
offices in Shula Baghdad arresting 30
2008 Report most
insurgents fled Mosul before govt started offensive there
2008 Fmr State Dept
official said agency never interested in fighting corruption in Iraq
(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)
2009 Denmark latest
European country to start deporting Iraqi refugees
2009 Hadbaa party was
in talks with Baghdad to try to force Kurds to participate in Ninewa council
that
they were boycotting
2010 Iraqi general
said Sahwa were like a militia that needed to be disarmed and that members of
Maliki govt
distrusted them
2010 Christian party
said insurgents were threatening Christians and Assyrians in Mosul trying to
drive
them out of city
2011 Protest in
Baghdad called for better services
2011 Iraqiya blamed PM
Maliki for assassination attempts on 3 of its members
2011 World Health
Org report said Iraq one of only 2 countries where life expectancy went down in
MENA
Dropped from 68 to 66 yrs from 2000-09
2012 Report that
Pres Talabani supported PM Maliki while Sadr Speaker Nujafi Pres Barzani and
Allawi
wanted no confidence vote
2012 State Dept cut
Iraq police training program
2012 Report that
Syrian govt was arresting and deporting Iraqis
2013 Arguments
between Ramadi and Fallujah sites over which represented Anbar demonstrators
2013 Sheikh Saadi
said talks beginning between Ramadi protest site and govt
2014 ISF claimed
progress in Fallujah op MPs and experts warned that ISF failing due to bad
logistics
2014 ISIS began car
bomb wave
2015 Rumors of
suicide bombers led to riot amongst Shiite pilgrims in Adhamiya, Baghdad
burning homes
and cars
2016 IS attacked ISF
bases around Ramadi with 20 suicide car bombs
2016 Protests in
Wasit Muthanna Babil Basra Dhi Qar Baghdad calling for govt reform
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