This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 8 France approved Sykes-Picot agreement Baghdad and Basra vilayets would go to UK Mosul to France Independent Arab state would also be created under UK-French influence

 

1915 PM Asquith ordered committee created to determine which parts of Ottoman Empire

UK should get Would lead to creation of Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)

 

1916 France approved Sykes-Picot agreement Gave Baghdad and Basra vilayets to UK

Mosul to France Included independent Arab state for Sharif Hussein

(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)

1917 British took Balad from Ottomans

1919 UK and France began negotiations to give France oil concession in Iraq in return for UK getting

Mosul province

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1941 UK Joint Planning Staff said all measures should be taken to overthrow PM Gaylani

(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)

1941 PM Churchill ordered Sec of State for India to put together force to be sent to Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)

1941 German Foreign Office said it supported Arab action against British for their freedom

(Musings On Iraq review 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 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)

1942 UK ambassador to Iraq Sir Cornwallis wrote PM Said was following through with Anglo-Iraq

Treaty and anti-British forces were being put into concentration camps

1950 During Passover grenade thrown at Jewish coffee shop in Baghdad seriously injuring 4 Might’ve

been done by underground Zionist group sent by Israel

(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus)

1980 DIA said 50% chance Iraq would invade Iran Said Iraq thought Iranian military weak and could

easily be defeated

1980 Ayatollah Khomeini broadcast speech calling on Iraq people to topple their govt

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

Musings On Iraq review Saddam’s War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War

1981 Sec State Haig said that Iraq was an important Middle Eastern country and hoped for better

relations in future

1982 Syria closed border to Iraq Claimed Saddam backed Muslim Brotherhood against Assad

1983 Dawa bombed offices of Iraqi Airways in Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq Interview A History Of Iraq’s Islamic Dawa Party With Lowy Inst for Intl Policy’s Dr Rodger Shanahan)

(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq)

1985 2^nd War of the Cities ended

1985 UN Sec Gen de Cuellar went to Baghdad where Saddam said Iraq was ready to enter into talks

to end war

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1991 Plan to create UN safe haven in northern Iraq for Kurds approved at European

            Union meeting

1991 European Community agreed to provide humanitarian aid to Kurds Suggested a safe haven for

Kurdish refugees in northern Kurdistan Idea approved by European Union

1991 US agreed to $10 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

1991 US White House lawyers decided to try to deny docs on US-Iraq policy to Congressional

investigators Congress looking into US giving credits to Iraq Some of money used to buy tech for Iraq’s nuclear WMD and missile programs

(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)

1992 Kurds announced elections for Kurdish parliament and leader would be held 5/17/92

1995 PUK-KDP ceasefire in civil war Turkey mediated Ankara hoped to gain PUK-KDP help against

PKK in return

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

2001 Czech Inter Min claimed 9/11 terrorist Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague Story false

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2003 Bush said UN would play crucial role in creating an interim Iraqi govt but US had rejected role

for UN

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

2003 US forces surrounded Baghdad US A-10 jet shot down by Iraqi surface to air

            missile over city US 3^rd Infantry Div reached downtown Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2003 US Special Forces and Peshmerga took Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin to cut off Kirkuk from the south

2003 Ayatollah Haeri said Iraq’s Shiites needed to seize power now that Saddam overthrown and

oppose US plans

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)

2003 Site south of Baghdad searched for chemical weapons but nothing found

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld had meeting to find replacement for ORHA head Garner for new presidential

envoy to Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

2003 British army appointed Muzahim Tamimi former general and Baathist as head of Basra province

Provoked demonstrations leading to Tamimi’s removal

2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid said that US would get Fallujah under control

2004 Fighting in Fallujah left 460 Iraqis and 36 US troops dead

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)

(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review First Fights In Fallujah, Marines During Operation Vigilante Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004)

2004 Insurgents attacked Baquba Muqdadiya and Khalis in Diyala Baquba fell to militants

2004 US 1^st Armored Div retook Kut from Mahdi Army

2004 Several Japanese aid workers kidnapped

2004 Inter Min Badran and Human Rights Min Turki resigned Sheikh Hatim from Amara suspended

membership in Iraqi Governing Council Pachachi considered resigning as well All over Sadr uprising and Battle of Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq review No True Glory, A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah)

2004 UN Rep Brahimi threatened to end his work to create interim govt over Battle of Fallujah

2004 Bremer asked US cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez for ceasefire in Battle of Fallujah and against Sadr

because Iraqi Governing Council coming apart

2006 Iraqi general said country in a civil war

2007 1000s of Sadrists held anti-U.S. occupation march in Najaf

2008 Report 10% of Basra police facing legal action for not fighting Mahdi Army during Charge of

Knights Around 1,600 fired arrested or went AWOL

2008 End of PM Maliki’s deadline for militias to disarm in Basra Had not been successful ISF

planned sweeps through Basra to confiscate weapons but had been delayed twice

2008 US forces moved into southern Sadr City to build wall to prevent attacks on Green Zone Led to

fighting with Mahdi Army

(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)

2008 Gen Petraeus told Congress Baghdad had only accepted 21,000 Sahwa out of 91,000 into ISF

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2008 Gen Petraeus said Shiite Special Groups were largest longterm threat to Iraq

2008 Amb Crocker told Congress that if US withdrew from Iraq without

            accomplishing constitutional reform Iranians would come out winners

2011 Over 2,000 protested in Baghdad and Fallujah Demanded prisoners be released Some demanded

US forces to leave

2011 Soldiers from 11^th Div in civilian clothes arrested protest organizer and held him for a week and

tortured him 

2011 KDP and PUK rejected call by opposition to disband govt to meet demands of protesters

(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)

2011 PM Maliki told Def Sec Gates Iraq did not need US military presence after withdrawal at end of

year Gates was in Iraq to try to convince Maliki and political parties to accept stay behind force of US soldiers

(Musings On Iraq Extension Of U.S. Troop Presence In Iraq Likely To Be Last Minute If At All)

(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

2011 Dep PM Shahristani told conference in Paris Iraq may give up 12 mil/bar/day production goal

and focus upon revenues Said production would reach 11.5 mil/bar/day by 2017-18 Didn’t happen

2012 Pres Barzani and Sadr both said PM Maliki becoming an autocrat

(Musings On Iraq The Sadrists’ Double Game: Criticizing Iraq’s Prime Minister, While Supporting Him At The Same Time)

(Musings On Iraq What Does Iraq’s Sadr Want?)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadrist Back Off Attacks Upon Prime Minister Maliki For Now)

(Musings On Iraq How The No Confidence Move Against Iraq’s Premier Split The Kurdish Parties)

(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Becoming A Dictator? An Interview With Kirk Sowell Of Inside Iraqi Politics)

(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An Interview With Historian Phebe Marr)

2012 Report Iraqiya tried to get parties to back no confidence vote against PM Maliki Kurds rejected

idea

2013 ISI released statement that it sent operative Jalwani to Syria to create Jabhat al-Nusra That group

was no longer and would be part of new ISIS

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2013 Electricity Min said it would end power problems by Oct 2013 Didn’t happen

(Musings On Iraq Another Hollow Promise By Iraq’s Electricity Ministry, End To Power Shortages By October 2013)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq No Closer To Solving Its Electricity Problems)

(Musings On Iraq More Hollow Promises By Iraq’s Electricity Ministry)

2015 KDP released Haider Sesho Yazidi militia commander on promise that his men would follow

Peshmerga

2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights called on Anbar to stop expelling displaced from Hit

District Got copy of order from Jazeera Ops Cmd to expel people Head of Hit council said there was no money to help displaced Order made to relieve economic stress on district

2021 Sayid al-Shuhada Brigade attacked massage center in Baghdad after owner Tweeted

about brigade commander

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