1915 British forces moved north to try to encircle Ottoman
forces in Qurna
1935 Muntafiq tribe joined
revolt against monarchy
1941 Iraq told German ambassador to Turkey that it agreed to
Turkish offer to mediate with England
1941 Golden Square officers rejected Turkey’s offer to
mediate and threatened to shoot PM Gaylani He
offered to resign Mufti of
Jerusalem had to intervene
1941 1st trainload of Nazi German war supplies from Vichy
France controlled Syria arrived in Mosul to
support PM Gaylani’s govt Never
used
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 British forces bombed Syrian-Mosul railway to try to
block Axis aid to Iraq
1941 Jordanians from Palestine arrived at Fort Rutba in
Anbar
1941 German planes attacked British forces at Habaniya air
base 1 British plane shot down by German
plane over Mosul
1941 Egyptian Chief of Staff Gen Masri arrested while
attempting to fly to Iraq to join fight vs British
(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 of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings
On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A
Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1982 Iranian Security Council asked Khomeini’s permission to
enter Iraq but denied
1983 Tariq Aziz went to Paris to ask for new arms deal with
France
1984 Iran attacked Kuwait tanker carrying Iraqi oil in
Persian Gulf Was retaliation for Iraq attacks on
Iranian oil industry
1987 UN investigation said Iraq used chemical weapons
against Iranian civilians
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
(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)
1991 Kurds attacked police station in Zakho as negotiations
continued over rules following 91 uprising
1997 Iraqi army clashed with Bani Said tribe in southern
Iraq
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld said US didn’t need to connect Iraq
and 9/11 to go to war Said main reason was
WMD
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The
aftermath of regime change)
(Musings
On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the
Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 CPA official briefed British of plan to disband Iraqi
army and build a new one Brits didn’t object
Later would
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 White House official said Iraq may not have had stocks
of WMD but just capability to make them
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Bremer he would be responsible
for temporary governing of Iraq
2003 Mass grave of 15,000 victims of 1991 uprising found in
Mahawil, Babil
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US encouraged 1991 uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
impact of the 1991 uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1st hand accounts of 1991 Uprising)
(Ahulbayt
Video on 1991 Uprising)
2004 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace told Senate US interrogation
methods used in Iraq violated Geneva
Conventions
2007 Abu Musah arms supplier to Iranian backed Special
Groups arrested
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2007 Jihad and Reform Front got into gun battle with ISI in
Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review Caliphate At War)
2007 Fmr CPA head Bremer wrote OpEd in Wash Post defending
decisions to ban Baath Party and disband
military Said Iraqi army had
disbanded itself and Shiite and Kurdish leaders wanted it gone Said right to
ban Baath Party US was only doing what it did in Germany with Nazis after WW2
Said it was Iraqis that abused deBaathification but CPA stopped them
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And
Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
2008 Report most insurgents fled Mosul before govt started
offensive there
2008 Report Iraqi officials were smuggling artifacts out of
Iraq to be sold on the black market
2008 Speaker of KRG parliament said Kurdish oil deals were
legal and in accordance with constitution
2008 Constitutional committee turned over Art 140 that was
to determine future of Kirkuk and other
disputed issues in constitution to
parliament to resolve Nothing happened
2009 Denmark latest European country to start deporting
Iraqi refugees
(Musings
On Iraq review Children of War,
Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2009 Hadbaa party was in talks with Baghdad to try to force
Kurds to participate in Ninewa council that
they were boycotting
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Al-Hadbaa taking over Ninewa council)
2009 SIIC’s Hakim said he wanted the United Iraqi Alliance
reformed before the 2010 elections
(Musings
On Iraq Iran’s Role In The Revival Of The United Iraqi Alliance)
2010 Iraqi general said Sahwa were like a militia that
needed to be disarmed and that members of Maliki
govt distrusted them
2010 Christian party said insurgents were threatening
Christians and Assyrians in Mosul trying to drive
them out of city
(Musings
On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
2011 Protest in Baghdad called for better services
2011 Iraqiya blamed PM Maliki for assassination attempts on
3 of its members
2011 World Health Org report said Iraq one of only 2
countries where life expectancy went down in MENA
Dropped from 68 to 66 yrs from
2000-09
2012 Report that Pres Talabani supported PM Maliki while
Sadr Speaker Nujafi Pres Barzani and Allawi
wanted no confidence vote
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2012 State Dept cut Iraq police training program
2012 Report that Syrian govt was arresting and deporting
Iraqis
2013 Arguments between Ramadi and Fallujah protest sites
over which represented Anbar demonstrators
2013 Sheikh Saadi said talks beginning between Ramadi
protest site and govt
2014 ISF claimed progress in Fallujah op MPs and experts
warned that ISF failing due to bad logistics
2014 ISIS began car bomb wave
2015 Rumors of suicide bombers led to riot amongst Shiite
pilgrims in Adhamiya Baghdad burning homes
and cars
2016 IS attacked ISF bases around Ramadi with 20 suicide car
bombs
2016 Protests in Wasit Muthanna Babil Basra Dhi Qar Baghdad
calling for govt reform
2019 Mansour Marid elected Ninewa governor Set off
controversy in Baghdad as various politicians
claimed vote was rigged by bribes
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