1916 British forces defeated
Ottomans at Fallahiya
1941 UK Joint Planning Staff said all measures should be
taken to overthrow PM Gaylani
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Churchill ordered Sec of State for India to put
together force to be sent to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance
Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1941 German Foreign Office said it supported Arab action
against British for their freedom
(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)
1980 Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr and sister Bint al-Huda
executed by Saddam
1980 DIA said 50% chance Iraq would invade Iran Said Iraq
thought Iranian military weak and could
easily be defeated
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini broadcast speech calling on Iraq
people to topple their govt
1981 Sec State Haig said that Iraq was an important Middle
Eastern country and hoped for better
relations in future
1982 Syria closed border to Iraq Claimed Saddam backed
Muslim Brotherhood against Assad
1983 Dawa bombed offices of Iraqi Airways in Baghdad
1985 2nd War of the Cities ended
1985 UN Sec Gen de Cuellar went to Baghdad where Saddam said
Iraq was ready to enter into talks to
end war
(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)
1991 Plan to create UN safehaven in northern Iraq for Kurds
approved at European Union meeting
1991 US agreed to $10 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
1991 European Community agreed to provide humanitarian aid
to Kurds
1992 Kurds announced elections for Kurdish parliament and
leader would be held 5/17/92
1995 PUK-KDP ceasefire in civil war Turkey mediated Ankara
hoped to gain PUK-KDP help against PKK
in return
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2001 Czech Inter Min claimed 9/11 terrorist Atta met with
Iraqi intelligence in Prague Later proven false
2003 Bush said UN would play crucial role in creating an
interim Iraqi govt but US had rejected role for
UN
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s
Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 US forces surrounded Baghdad US A-10 jet shot down by
Iraqi surface to air missile over city
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Ayatollah Haeri said Iraq’s Shiites needed to seize
power now that Saddam overthrown and oppose
US plans
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 Site south of Baghdad searched for chemical weapons but
nothing found
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld had meeting to find replacement for
ORHA head Garner for new presidential
envoy to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in
Kuwait)
2003 British army appointed Muzahim Tamimi former general
and Baathist as head of Basra province
Provoked demonstrations leading to
Tamimi’s removal
2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid said that US would get
Fallujah under control
2004 Fighting in Fallujah left 460 Iraqis and 36 US troops
dead
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 US 1st Armored Div retook Kut from Mahdi
Army
2004 Several Japanese aid workers kidnapped
2005 Transitional Iraqi parliament confirmed Talabani as
president of Iraq
2006 Iraqi general said country in a civil war
2007 1000s of Sadrists held anti-U.S. occupation march in
Najaf
2008 Report 10% of Basra police facing legal action for not
fighting Mahdi Army during Charge of
Knights Around 1,600 fired arrested
or went AWOL
2008 End of Maliki’s deadline for militias to disarm in
Basra Had not been successful ISF planned
sweeps through Basra to confiscate
weapons but had been delayed twice
2008 US forces moved into southern Sadr City to build wall
to prevent attacks on
Green Zone
Led to fighting with Mahdi Army
2008 Gen Petraeus told Congress Baghdad had only accepted
21,000 Sahwa out
of 91,000
into ISF
2008 Gen Petraeus said Shiite Special Groups were largest
longterm threat to Iraq
2008 Amb Crocker told Congress that if US withdrew from Iraq
without
accomplishing
constitutional reform Iranians would come out winners
2011 Over 2,000 protested in Baghdad and Fallujah Demanded
prisoners be released Some demanded US
forces to leave
2011 Soldiers from 11th Div in civilian clothes
arrested protest organizer and held him for a week and
tortured him
2011 KDP and PUK rejected call by opposition to disband govt
to meet demands of protesters
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 PM Maliki told Def Sec Gates Iraq did not need a U.S.
military presence after withdrawal at end of year
Gates was in Iraq to try to
convince Maliki and political parties to accept stay behind force of US
soldiers
2012 Sadr said that PM Maliki was becoming a dictator
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2013 ISI released statement that it sent operative Jalwani
to Syria to create Jabhat al-Nusra That group was
no longer and would be part of new
ISIS
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 KDP released Haider Sesho Yazidi militia commander on
promise that his men would follow
Peshmerga
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