1935 Iraqi air force dropped flyers telling tribes to end
revolt in Diwaniya or govt would punish
them Tribes refused Govt started
bombing area Martial law declared Rumaitha Gen Sidqi put in command of putting
down revolt
1941 Germany announced aid package for Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 German diplomat arrived in Syria to organize arms
shipments to Iraq
1941 Start of 100 German and 20 Italian airplanes landing in
Syrian bases to fight British in Iraq British
intel found out about planes being
flown from Greece to Syria and that Vichy France sending trains full of
military aid to Iraq
1941 British planes bombed Iraqi police holding Fort Rutba,
Anbar while Iraqi reinforcements arrived
1941 British cmdr in India Gen Auchinleck told Chiefs of
Staff British had to deal with Iraq
1941 PM Churchill told Mid-East commander Gen Wavell he had
to take bold military action against Iraq
and wouldn’t negotiation with PM
Gaylani
1941 Jordanian soldiers mutinied and refused to cross over
into Iraq 240 men left unit
(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 Iran cut off 2 Iraqi divisions and regained 116 sq mi
in Khuzistan province in south
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1984 State Dept memo said that new pro-Iraq policy could
lead to export of dual use equipment for
Baghdad’s nuclear program
(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 US forces withdrew from southern Iraq after Gulf War
1991 Iraq rejected proposal to have intl police force to
divide Iraqi forces from Kurds in north
1992 Saddam discussed assassinating Mubarak and King Fahd
because they backed US in Gulf War
2001 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
fit specifications for rocket launchers IAEA
found similar tubes during
inspections in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 Gen Franks ordered commanders to plan for including
Turkey in Iraq invasion plans Franks didn’t
believe Ankara would agree to allow
US troops to use country for invasion but needed to plan for it
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2002 Pentagon memo to Rumsfeld said that US had to pick who
would fill vacuum after Saddam Said
Iraqi opposition would help
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 US and UK draft resolution to UN to make them occupying
powers in Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld US would keep as many troops as
necessary in Iraq and would take more than
year to build Iraqi govt
2003 1st joint US-Iraqi patrols started in
Baghdad
2003 Sadrist cleric called for revenge attacks upon
Baathists
2003 US general met with Iraqi officers about getting Iraqi
soldiers back to their units and to stop looting
and impose order
(Musings
On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A
People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5
ORHA In Baghdad)
2003 Bush signed memo officially making Bremer presidential
envoy to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2003 Bremer met Bush and mentioned RAND study that said US
needed 500,000 troops to occupy Iraq
Bush asked Rumsfeld who said there
were enough troops
2003 Bremer cancelled Khalilzad Zalimay’s return trip to
Iraq to work on an interim Iraqi authority
2003 UnderSecDef Feith gave Bremer draft of deBaathification
and disbanding Iraqi military orders Feith
would later deny he drafted orders
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA sent draft order to disband Iraqi military and
build a new one to Sec Def Rumsfeld
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz in Vanity Fair Bush admin all
agreed on WMD as way to justify Iraq war
2003 US announced it found mobile WMD labs Story proved
false
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2004 Think tank estimated that Iraq would could cost $300
bil in ten years when Bush admin was pushing
low numbers
2004 Report some US officers worried winning militarily in
Iraq but losing support of Iraqi public
2008 Government and Sadr signed ceasefire to end Charge of
Knights Allowed ISF to conduct arrests and
raids in Sadr City
2008 Baghdad Operations Command said they found Iranian
weapons with Mahdi Army in capital
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2009 US said Iran continued to train Iraqi militias but at
lower levels than before
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2010 Protests in front of KRG parliament over murder of
journalist Zardasht Osman
2011 PM Maliki released insulting letter to Allawi
2011 Former Health Minister warned that Iraq had become part
of drug trafficking networks between
Middle East and Europe
2011 ISI was said to give allegiance to Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri
and promised revenge for bin Laden’s death
2012 Report that $5 mil being stolen a month from contract
for Turkish ships to provide electricity to
Basra
2012 PM Maliki said Peshmerga should leave Kirkuk while
Kurds criticized PMs visit to city
2012 Turkey said it would not arrest former VP Hashemi who
was residing there after Interpol notice for
him
2013 Pres Barzani said KRG was training Kurds to fight in
Syrian war
2014 Govt claimed 90% of Ramadi cleared of ISIS when
insurgents still occupied large areas of city
2015 Tribal fighters began training in Anbar with approval
by PM Abadi
2018 Board of Supreme Audit warned Iraq Election Comm that
Korean voting machines had problems and
Commission had not responded to its
concerns earlier
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