1854 Riot in Mosul versus Ottoman reforms Attacked
Christians and Jews for businesses they ran
and control of taxes that caused resentment
(Musings
On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
1935 Faisal II future king of Iraq born
1935 Police attacked tribal revolt in Rumaitha Air force
bombed area
1941 UK commander at Habaniya base Anbar consulted London
and got permission to attack Iraqis
surrounding camp Bombed Iraqis
starting Anglo-Iraq War UK lost 22 planes and 10 pilots
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Iraq launched air strike upon Habaniya base in
retaliation Shelled airfield damaging 40 planes
UK lost 13 dead and 20 wounded
1941 Grand Mufti in Baghdad declared jihad against British
after attack on Iraqi forces in Habaniya
1941 Iraqi forces took British fort at Rutba, Anbar
1941 British troops broke up angry mob of Iraqis at Zubeila,
Basra
1941 Iraqi govt asked Germany for diplomatic relations to be
restored and military aid including planes
1941 UK Chiefs of Staff ordered MidEast Commander Gen Wavell
to make plans to destroy Iraq’s
pipelines
1941 Iraq’s 1st Inf Brigade ordered from Baghdad
to Ramadi to block UK troops from Transjordan
being sent to Habaniya Air Base 11th
Inf Brigade sent to Habaniya air base
1941 British took Iraq out of Sterling zone and had foreign
banks close to impose economic sanctions on
Gaylani govt
(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)
1948 Port of Basra protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1953 King Faisall II became of age to directly rule Iraq
replacing Regent al-Ilah
1983 Iran and Iraq exchanged 55 prisoners of war in Turkey
(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 Shiite rebels claimed to have killed 180 Iraqi soldiers
in 9 different attacks in south
1995 Saddam held meeting to discuss whether Iraq should
continue to cooperate with UN weapons
inspectors
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings
On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
2003 Oil Ministry re-opened after invasion Thamir Ghabban
announced as new Oil Minister
(Musings
On Iraq Review Iraq and the Politics
of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
2003 ORHA report many ministry buildings in Baghdad had been
taken over by different groups
2003 UK DefMin Hoon told Sec Def Rumsfeld ORHA had to
deliver in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 1st report that Bush was considering
appointing Bremer to take over in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Sadr said Christians in Iraq had to follow Islamic Law
not sell alcohol women had to be covered
(Musings
On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
2003 Ayatollah Jannati Sec Gen Iran’s Council of Guardians
called on Iraqis to carry out martyrdom ops
to drive US from Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2003 INC aide Brooke said Iraqi people might convince
Chalabi to become country’s new president
2007 Islamic Army Mujahedeen Army faction of Ansar al-Sunna
and al-Fatihin Army formed
Reformation and Jihad Front to
fight ISI
2007 Karki and Shimour tribes signed peace deal in Diyala
promised to fight ISI
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 Fmr head Intl Recon Fund Facility for Iraq Bell said US
and UK went about reconstruction wrong
Said should have built institutions
and personnel first instead of large infrastructure projects Said lack of
security undermined rebuilding and led to brain drain that meant Iraq couldn’t
maintain projects
2008 Insurgents beheaded 11 police officers in western Anbar
2008 Sadr refused to meet with Iraqi delegation in Iran to
end Charge of Knights
2009 Sadr made first public appearance in 2 years in Turkey
to meet followers Had fled Iraq over fear of
US assassination during Surge
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sadr’s appearance in Turkey)
2010 Pres Barzani said he believed in dividing Iraq into 3
federal areas along ethnosectarian lines
2010 Iran Iraq announced deal to develop 5 oil fields that
straddle two countries
2011 Basra and Najaf tribes joined protest in Anbar against
extending US troop stay in Iraq past end of
year
2011 Parliament investigation of Jan ISI prison break in
Basra said had help from 2 intelligence officers
2011 Fallujah Waste Water plant started partially working Building
plant started 2004 after 1st Battle of
Fallujah
2012 Supreme Court issued decision weakening parliament’s
ability to question ministers
2013 Fake bomb maker Jim McCormick got 10 yrs prison for
fraud in making detectors Iraq continued to
use them
2013 Parliamentary investigation said ISF used excessive
force when attacked Hawija protest site
2014 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that ISIS had always pledged
allegiance to Al Qaeda
2014 Naqshibandi and ISIS fought in Diyala for 3 months
Report Naqshibandi okayed killing ISIS
members in Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq Precarious Relationship Between The Islamic State of Iraq And The
Baathist Naqshibandi)
2015 Report IS controlled most of Baiji refinery and 200 ISF
trapped inside
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