1941 British bombed
Fallujah while troops began surrounding town
1941 Transjordan
force arrived at Habaniya base in Anbar Were attacked by German planes
(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)
1948 Port of Basra protest against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1985 Saudi Foreign
Minister Prince Faisal went to Tehran Offered to end aid to Iraq if Iran
accepted
ceasefire Also talked about how much Iran wanted in reparations if war
ended Saudis delivered refined oil to Iran as sign of goodwill Rafsanjani
suggested Gulf States help overthrow Saddam In return Iran would not export its
revolution and end war Saudis passed along idea to US that rejected it
1991 Massoud Barzani
announced deal with Saddam for greater Kurdish autonomy
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1994 US pushed
through UN call for Iraq to stop attacks on southern marshes as part of ending
sanctions
2002 British govt
issued order to prepare for military action against Iraq
2003 Former NY City
Police Commissioner Kerik sent to be Iraq’s Interior Minister under CPA Said he
found no plan in place in Baghdad and Interior Ministry wasstaffed by
12 Americans plus him
2003 UK Foreign
Office memo looting continued in Baghdad Interior and Information Ministries
were
recently looted
2003 Sheikh Naifus
of Albu Alwan tribe in Babil who had been arrested for executions following 91
uprising released by US
2003 Fighting broke
out in Kirkuk between Kurds and Arabs 5 killed 40 injured Armed Kurds from Hawija
arrived in city to join in
2004 Sadr called on
Iraqis to rise up against US in Najaf
2004 Ayatollah Sistani
called on all armed forces to withdraw from Najaf and not to join Sadr’s uprising
2004 Bremer asked Sec
Def Rumsfeld for 40,000 more U.S. troops Rumsfeld never responded
2004 Pentagon
announced it would end funding INC in June 2004
2004 DepSecDef
Wolfowitz wouldn’t give timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq after sovereignty
returned in Senate testimony
2005 Several US
generals said it would take years for the US to withdraw from Iraq because
taking long
time to rebuild Iraqi forces
2005 Report Only 3
of 81 Iraqi army battalions capable of acting independently Only 1 of 26 army
brigades able to work independently
2005 Zarqaqi
audiotape posted Titled Descendants of Ibn al-Alqami Are Back Alqami Shiite
minister
Sunnis believed turned over Baghdad to Mongols in 1258 Zarqawi said Ibn
Tarmiya’s words about Shiites applied to today Said Shiites were loyal to Jews
and Christians humiliated Muslims in Iraq and wanted to destroy Islam
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2008 PM Maliki
promised $100 mil for rebuilding Mosul after Mother of Two Rivers operation
2008 Accordance
Front MP said Baghdad agreed to integrate 20% of Ninewa Sahwa and 7,000 locals
into
security forces
2008 Sadr ceasefire
in Baghdad finally took effect
2008 Police raided
Sadr offices in Basra and captured large weapons cache and arrested militiamen
2009 Integrity Comm
official said Def Min officials charging $500 to join army Trade Min selling
food
rations to businesses
2009 Defense and
Interior Min fired 12,000 ghost soldiers and 70,000 ghost police US officials
thought
25% of Def Min payroll stolen
2009 Head of Islamic
Party in Diyala Khazraji and Sawha leader arrested on terrorism charges as part
of
Operation Promise of Good II Arrests part of PM Maliki crackdown on Sunnis
in Diyala before and after provincial elections
2009 Warrants for 3
other members of Diyala council issued by PM Maliki dropped due to protests by
parliament
2009 Baghdad
released tape of man they claimed was ISI leader Baghdadi confessing Was not Baghdadi
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi)
2010 Interior
Ministry source claimed Iranian explosives and shells used in recent bombing in
southern
Iraq
2010 Sadrists said
they supported Jaafari to be PM not Maliki
2012 Human Rights
Watch reported secret prison in Green Zone run by PM Maliki said to be closed
in
March 2011 still operating
2012 KRG began
preparations to build independent oil pipeline to Turkey
2013 Protest leaders
in Mosul Anbar Salahaddin Diyala Kirkuk had meeting saying armed struggle or
regions only options left
2013 Ramadi protest
leader called for a Sunni region in Iraq
2013 Arrest warrant
for Mohammed Abu Risha Ramadi protest leader led to gunfight with ISF in city
2014 Head of Mosul
intelligence claimed he received report ISIS planning to attack Mosul and told
Ninewa
Operations Command
2014 Babil police
chief claimed Jurf al-Sakhr mostly cleared Town actually wouldn’t be freed
until Oct
2014
2014 Financial
experts warned Iraqi economy heading towards recession
2014 PM Maliki said
no 2014 budget until a new government was formed
2014 Report that
400,000 people fled Fallujah due to shelling and barrel bombing by ISF
2015 PUK’s Mahmoud
Othman criticized Pres Barzani for talking about independence and acting like
sole
leader of Kurds
2015 Foreign
diplomat in Baghdad said Iran using Maliki against PM Abadi Opposed his pro-Western
policies
2015 Fighting broke
out between Bani Tamim tribe and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in Basra
2015 Badr head Amiri
blamed Anbar council for loss of Ramadi because kept Hashd out of province
Untrue Hashd were there for months
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