1940 Iraq For Min Said said England and France should grant
Syria and Palestine Independence
to counter Axis propaganda
1941 British attacked Iraqis 6 miles up from Basra city 10th
Indian Div ordered to head north
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1948 Iraqi forces took Geulim and reached Kfar Yona and Ein
Vered 1st Arab-Israeli War
1981 New Pres Mitterrand told Saddam France would support
him during war
1983 Turkey launched first cross border raid under
Iraq-Turkey security agreement 7,000 Turkish troops
moved 18 mi into Kurdistan to
attack PKK bases
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
1983 Iraq offered to end bombing of civilians
1988 Iraq started Op Tawakalna ala Allah to clear Fish Lake
Basra and force Iran into negotiations to end
war Used chemical weapons Took 6
miles
(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)
1999 Clinton Natl Sec Adv Berger met with 7 Iraqi opposition
parties receiving US funds Told them
president wanted Saddam removed by
end of his term
2003 5,000 Iraqis protested outside Green Zone demanding a
new govt security salaries for soldiers
2003 CPA order 5 created DeBaathification Council Would be
run by Ahmed Chalabi
2003 Inspection team examined 2 captured trailers
Immediately found they were not mobile WMD labs
as originally thought
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 Kirkuk council elected 6 members then arrested by US
for alleged Baathist ties
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2007 Ret Gen Keane told VP Cheney Surge needed to be
sustained until 2008
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
2007 UK killed Mahdi Army commander for Basra Abu Qader
leading to 2 days of fighting in city
2007 Sadr gave Friday sermon forbidding attacks upon Sunnis
and Christians His Mahdi Army was still
cleansing Sunnis from Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 Report insurgents fled to Tikrit and Ramadi during
Mother of Two Springs operation in Mosul
2008 Mayor of Mosul escaped 4th bombing attempt on his life
in 10 days Came day after Mother of Two
Springs op to clear city ended
2008 USAmb Crocker said ISI had been severely disrupted in
Iraq
2008 US and ISF conduct weapons searches in Sadr City
Arrested 200 Mahdi Army militiamen in Amil and
Baya
2008 Report Sadrists paid $300 for anyone that attacked UK
forces in Basra Money came from Iran
2008 PM Maliki attempted to assert control over Basra after
Charge of Knights by firing Fadhila officials
who ran province Replaced heads of
South Oil Company Basra Airport Oil Tankers Company Basra Refinery
2009 PM Maliki accepted resignation of Trade Min Sudani
charged with corruption He used stolen
money to fund Maliki’s 2009 and
2010 election campaigns
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2011 Iraq ranked 2nd to last in Global Peace
Index
2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq could not defend itself
after US withdrawal at end of year
2012 Dawa held march in Baghdad to support PM Maliki during
no confidence drive against him
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2012 Baghdad said that all Kurdish oil deals with Turkey had
to be approved by the central govt
2013 Mutahidun accused PM Maliki of backing militias with
government money
2014 Anbar Operations Command claimed 90% of Ramadi freed
ISIS still occupied major parts of city
2014 Anbar Operations Command said 40 attempts to take
Fallujah from Jan-May 2014 and all failed
2014 Sadrists threatened to go into opposition if PM Maliki
got 3rd term
2018 Protesters in Basra blocked main road with burning
tires over lack of services
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