1941 UK bombed Iraqi air bases
in Baghdad and Baquba Destroyed or damaged 29 planes in
Baghdad 14 in
Baquba
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 British bombers arrived at Habaniya airbase in Anbar from
Egypt while Iraqis continued to shell base
150 UK troops also flown into base
1941 British troops in Habaniya base Anbar launched attacked
and failed to take Sin al-Dhibban used to
cross Euphrates and supply Iraqi
troops outside base
1941 British dropped leaflets on Baghdad saying war was with
Gaylani govt not Iraqi people
1941 Regent broadcast radio message asking people not to
follow Gaylani govt Baghdad radio called on
govt to arm the people
1941 PM Gaylani sent diplomat to Tehran and told embassy in
Turkey to pressure Germans to send aid
1941 UK Chiefs of Staff told Mid-East commander Gen Wavell
he had to take action against the Gaylani
govt
1941 UK War Sec Eden told Iraqi charge d’affaires if war
continued and Germany joined all of Iraq would
become a battlefield
(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)
1966 Iraqi troops started military campaign against KDP
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1981 Iraq began shelling Iran’s oil refinery at Abadan
(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)
1988 Iraqi forces attacked PUK in Askar Kurdistan during 4th
Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1989 Saddam’s cousin and Def Min Adnan Kairallah died in
mysterious helicopter crash
1991 2nd round of peace talks between Kurds and
Baghdad postponed due to differences between KDP and
PUK over need for international
help and oil
1995 Turkey withdrew 15,000 troops after KDP said it would
crackdown on PKK in Kurdistan
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
2003 Sec State Powell said sure US would find Iraq’s WMD Sec
Def Rumsfeld said US never claimed
finding WMD would be easy Powell
denied stories that Iraq sent its WMD to Syria
(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 US official said unlikely to find any large MWD or nuke
stocks in Iraq Said sanctions had led Iraq to
get rid of most of its WMD
2003 Iraqi scientists told US investigators Iraq had no WMD
for years
2003 ORHA memo said security was still top priority in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside
The War To Win The Peace)
2004 Shiite leaders called on Sadr to withdraw his Mahdi
Army from Najaf and Karbala
2004 US announced it would not be withdrawing forces from
Iraq as planned
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2004 CIA started investigation into whether it kept
undocumented prisoners in Iraq It did
2005 Sadrist cleric in Basra talked about imposing Islamic
Law on city including bombing liquor stores
imposing Islamic dress attacking
mixed picknickers Said movement didn’t want to be like Iran because most
Iranians were corrupt
2005 Doctors in Basra said Mahdi Army tried to stop male
doctors from serving female patients Posted
pictures of Sadr in hospitals
2006 Zarqawi gave presentation saying Al Qaeda in Iraq
needed to expand its base from Anbar into
Salahaddin and Diyala Said Ramadi
was to be named capital of emirate
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2006 Fmr CIA National Intelligence Officer Pillar said that
Bush admin manipulated evidence to tie Iraq to
Al Qaeda before invasion Part of
CIA vs White House blame game for prewar intel
2007 US broke up arms smuggling ring in Sadr City bringing
in EFPs and other arms from Iran into Iraq
(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 Iraqi Accordance Front said joining politics was a disaster
Said it agreed to join politics based upon
promises of constitutional reform
and reconciliation but didn’t happen
2008 ISF destroyed Thar Allah HQ in Basra after weapons
found there
2008 Govt spokesman said Iraq had hard evidence of Iranian
support for militias and violence Later in day
changed to saying didn’t have hard
evidence It did
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2008 Iraq general in Karbala said Iran giving weapons to
militias in city and undermining security
2008 PM Maliki adv Haidar Abadi said Iran denied they were
sending weapons to Iraq Iran told Iraq it
would be foolish to send arms with
Iranian markings on them That’s actually what Iran did
2008 Report Captured Mahdi Army militiamen admitted to being
trained by Hezbollah in camps in Iran
run by Iran Rev Guards Quds Force
(Musings
On Iraq on Iran training Iraqi militias)
(Musings
On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
2009 Sadr said he had given up on armed struggle against US
and wanted to focus upon politics
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2009 ISCI MP from Diyala said that no one trusted ISF or new
Op Promise of Good II in province Said false
info being used to conduct arrests
Another MP demanded that Gen Ghidan in charge of operation resign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Op Promise of Good II)
2010 Baathist leader apologized for mistakes of party Said
wanted to join politics Public needed to
remember achievements of party
2010 State of Law and National Alliance announced joining to
form National Coalition after elections
2011 Speaker of US House Boehner said US forces should stay
in Iraq past end of 2011 deadline
2011 PM Maliki submitted new list of nominees for security
ministries empty since 2010 elections
2012 PM Maliki’s media advisor Ghabban said he thought
dispute between Baghdad and KRG would be
over by end of 2012
2012 Pres Barzani gave speech saying Kurds would never live
under a dictatorship meaning PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki
became a dictator)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP
Said)
2012 KRG called for Baghdad to pay oil companies operating
in Kurdistan
2012 KRG said in talks with Turkey to build an oil and gas
pipeline between two
2013 Election Commission announced final results for
provincial elections State of Law lost 30% of its
seats from 09 vote
2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq rally in Baghdad announced it was
fighting in Syria as part of Abu al-Fadhl
al-Abbas Brigade
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2014 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that ISIS fighting in Syria
was a disaster
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Fighting between Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS in Kirkuk
2014 Sadrists said talks with SIIC, Kurds and Allawi to
block Maliki from 3rd term as PM
2017 Iraqi forces attacked Mosul from northwest opening new
front in city
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