1941 Italian planes got into dogfight with British planes
over Baghdad 1 Italian and 2 British
planes shot down
1941 British defeated Iraqi forces at Abu Ghraib Turned back
at Abu Ghraib canal in push on Baghdad 2nd
time
1941 British forces defeated by Iraqi army at Kadhimiya,
Baghdad
1941 PM Gaylani told military leadership had fled to Persia
leading to his own escape there along with
Mufti of Jerusalem
1941 German ambassador to Iraq fled Baghdad for Kirkuk
fearing British advance
1941 Governor of Baghdad captured by British on trip to
Samarra
(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 Battle of Jenin between Jewish and Iraqi forces started
1st Arab Israeli War
1981 Iran attacked Penjwin Kurdistan but stopped
1983 Tariq Aziz tried to open talks with Iran to stop
bombing civilians area via UN Iran rejected offer
1984 US backed UN resolution condemning Iranian attacks on
Persian Gulf shipping Didn’t mention
Iraq’s attacks
1987 US Asst Dep Sec of Def Armitage said U.S. couldn’t see
Iraq defeated in Iran-Iraq War
1988 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Gorbachev said he would
pressure Iran to end Iran-Iraq War if US
helped with Soviet withdrawal from
Afghanistan
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
1996 PUK and KDP agreed to extend Kurdish parliament for
another year hoping that assembly would
help end civil war
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2002 UK Def Min official Kelly said Blair govt had spun WMD
dossier on Iraq
2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD
labs were found Inspection found were
not labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 Retired CIA and State Dept officials sent memo to Bush
saying they questioned intel cited by White
House for Iraq war
2003 BBC report Blair’s office had sexed up UK dossier on
Iraq’s WMD
2003 Elections led to Abdul Rahman Mustafa a Kurd being
elected mayor of Kirkuk
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby asked Undersecretary of
State Grossman about a former ambassador
going to Niger mentioned in Wash
Post column Grossman told him it was Joseph Wilson
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 Report incoming interim PM Allawi had links to CIA and
MI6 since 1980s as opponent to Saddam
2005 Op Lightning largest joint US-Iraq op so far Aimed at
clearing Baghdad of insurgents
2005 Report May 2002 US and UK increased air strikes on Iraq
using No Fly Zones in attempt to provoke
Saddam to justify invasion
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped 5 Brits from Finance
Ministry in Baghdad 4 would be killed
Ransomed 5th Op planned
by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2007 Insurgents in Amiriya Baghdad told US they were going
to attack ISI and needed help Gen
Petraeus said he would support them
Became Sahwa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sahwa)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2008 US Amb to Iraq Crocker said ISI near defeat
2008 Interior Min fired 7500 police for corruption ghost
officers negligence
2009 Video emerged of Trade Min Sudani and brothers drinking
with prostitutes talking about PM Maliki
Sudani from Dawa
2010 Sadrists said they would not allow dictatorship or
autocracy to return to Iraq referring to PM Maliki
2011 Iraqiya nominee for Def Min Obeidi escaped sticky bomb
attempt on his life in Mosul
2012 Basra council called for province to become federal
region
2012 PM Maliki held cabinet meeting in Mosul to try to
undermine no confidence vote against him
Kurds boycotted meeting
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Iraqi court found Hezbollah operative Daquq innocent of
terrorism charges Was liaison between Iran
Hezbollah and militias
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2012 Shahristani denied that he ordered stop of fuel deliveries
to KRG even though he did
2014 Mutahidun Arabiya and Nationalists formed Union of
National Forces list
2016 After he was dismissed by parliament Ninewa Gov Nujafi
refused to leave office
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