1916 German commander of the Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia
Gen Goltz died of typhoid
1920 Start of San Remo meeting with Britain France Italy and
Japan Decided on split up of Ottoman
Empire and creation of Iraq
1922 Colonial Sec Churchill said King Faisal’s demand that
mandate be dropped from Iraq
impossible
under League of Nations that
created mandate
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How
Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1941 British 20th Inf Brigade finishes its
landing in Basra and 7 planes flown into Habaniya airbase
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles
for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1954 PM Jamali resigned over disagreement with Nuri al-Said
about Syrian elections Jamali wanted to
influence vote with propaganda Said
thought that waste of money
(Musings
On Iraq review of Ropes Of Sand
that includes Iraq plots against Syria)
1969 Iraq expelled Shiites claiming they were Iranians
Backed Iran dissident groups Claimed Khuzistan as
part of Iraq Was response to Shah
voiding 1937 Shatt al-Arab Treaty
1981 Tariq Aziz said he hoped for better relations with US
but skeptical it would happen
1983 Baath meeting in Amara over army desertions in southern
Iraq Came up with military operation to
arrest them
1986 Iraq launched 1st of 2 attacks upon Fao-Um
Qasr road in Basra Accused of using chemical weapons
1988 Rafsanjani went on TV saying that war had shifted
against 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 review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1990 White House rejected limiting high-tech exports to Iraq
that could be used for military
1990 Saddam met with Yasser Arafat and discussed retaliatory
attacks upon Israel and US if Iraq was
attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
2002 UK intel report Iraq not seen as a threat in Middle
East except by Kuwait
2003 Protest in Baghdad’s Adhamiya against U.S. occupation
2003 Gen Mattis said that U.S. didn’t have enough troops to
secure Iraq
2003 Turkey threatened to send troops if Kurds took over
Kirkuk
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations
in Kirkuk)
2003 US afraid Badr infiltrating into Diyala from Iran would
start fighting MEK US threatened to attack
Badr if didn’t withdraw in 24 hrs
Pulled back into Iran
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2003 Peshmerga found a trailer near Irbil that was a
suspected mobile WMD lab Wasn’t
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2004 Marines and Fallujah leaders worked out deal for
insurgents to turn over heavy weapons
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2005 Report US intel discussed what torture techniques they
could use on Iraqi prisoners in Aug 03
including electrocution
2006 NGO Survey found 19,548 kidnappings from Jan to April
2006
2006 KRG parliament proposed creating Natural Resource
Ministry to run region’s oil industry
2007 ISI announced that Abu Ayub al-Masri was War Minister
2007 Sheikhs met in Ramadi to announce province wide
Awakening Council
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Marines Take
Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq review Illusions of Victory,
The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2008 Phase 3 of Charge of Knights began with sweeps through
Hayaniya in Basra and Nasiriya
2008 Sadr threatened war against govt if didn't back down on
raids against Mahdi Army in Basra
2008 ISI military chief Muhajir called for all insurgent
groups to unite under its banner
2008 Al Karama party announced forming a list of Sahwa in
Baghdad technocrats and members of Islamic
Army Eshreen Revolution Brigades
Mujahadeen Army to take part in 2009 provincial elections
2010 State of Law called for revote after lost to Iraqiya
Charged fraud but no irregularities found
(Musings
On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
2011 Protest in Diwaniya over better work conditions broken
up by police
2011 Sulaymaniya govt banned all demonstrations in city
after protests broken up day before
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2012 Anbar councilman said province would move towards
federal region
2012 ISI set off car bombs in Baghdad Kirkuk Samarra Baquba,
Dibis 35 killed more than 100 wounded
2012 After meeting Pres Barzani Turkish officials accused PM
Maliki of spreading sectarianism
2013 Checkpoint outside Hawija protest site attacked 1
soldier killed Led to stand off between 2 sides
2013 Hawija site was run by Naqshibandi that wanted to provoke
confrontation with ISF to push
demonstrators towards violence
2014 Head of Ninewa Operations Command accused of extorting
money and arresting people for ransom
2014 Protest in Baghdad and other provinces for reform
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