1909 Riots in Mosul killed Sheikh Said Sufi leader in
Sulaymaniya Led his followers to
revolt cutting off trade in
northern Mosul province
1916 Start of Battle of Sheikh Saad as British forces moved
up the Tigris and encountered the
Ottoman defenses
1921 Govt issued order to form Iraqi General Staff Nuri
al-Said became Chief of Staff 1st unit of
Iraqi army formed
1942 Court sentenced fmr PM Gaylani and 3 Golden Square
colonels to death in absentia
(Musings
On Iraq book review Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
1948 College students went on strike in Baghdad after police
broke up protest on Jan 4 over
Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1949 Student strikes started at College of Medicine
Pharmaceutical College Law College in Baghdad
while protests started in Hillah
Najaf Basra Kirkuk Sulaymaniya Communists played leading role
1949 Nuri al-Said became PM for 5th time Told
parliament his main job was dealing with
Communists
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star Over
Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of ‘Independent
Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 on Said govt)
1981 Largest tank battle since 1973 Arab-Israeli war started
during Op Hoveyzeh Iraq and
Iran lost total of 3 tank
battalions
1981 Iran recaptured Geilan Zarb in center near Diyala Iran
lost total of 400 dead 450 Iraqis captured
Iran didn’t have troops to hold
town so retreated to hills outside
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iraq started operation to try to retake Majnoon Island
from Iranians
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Saddam called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected
by Iran
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1990 Jabouri tribe attempted to assassinate Saddam during
military parade
1993 US Russia France England agreed to enforce UN
Resolution 688 that condemned Iraq’s
repression of its population
2003 Saddam said he was ready for war Accused UN inspectors
of being spies
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
2003 IAEA asked State Dept for info about Iraq-Niger uranium
deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 IAEA head El Baradei no evidence of any suspicious Iraq
nuclear activities
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2003 Bush met with cabinet and said needed strong case vs Iraq
for war
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein,
Deciding on Conflict)
2003 Report 100 US Special Forces and 50 CIA officers had
been sent into Iraq end of 2002 along
with Australian Jordanian British
commandos to find targets for invasion
2004 2 Frenchmen shot and killed in Fallujah after car broke
down
2015 4 bodies found in Albu Bahani, Babil believed to have
been kidnapped and executed by Hashd
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