Jackie Spinner was a reporter for the Washington Post in Iraq from 2004-05. Her book Tell Them I Didn’t Cry, A Young Journalists Story Of Joy, Loss And Survival In Iraq gets its name from the time the author was almost kidnapped. She wanted the staff to know that she never cried when men were trying to take her. Her writing is like a journal about her time working in Iraq along with letters from her twin sister about how her trip was affecting her family.
1927 Draft of Anglo-Iraq Treaty written by UK Colonial Office Said Iraq independent state to
appease Iraqis when under British control
1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman entered Baghdad and visited Sunni and Shiite shrines trying to
win over city
For several years now Iraq’s finances have been on shaky ground. It continuously expands its public workforce while oil which it is completely dependent upon goes up in down in price. This is growing to a crisis point as Iraq has passed the largest budgets in history recently but hasn’t been able to cover them leading to a growing debt that the state may not be able to cover for much longer.
1915 Retreating UK forces reached Kut after loss at Battle of Ctesiphon/Salman Pak UK
suffered 5,187 casualties over last 10 days Started Turkish siege of Kut
On the night of November 26 two rockets were fired at the Khor Mor natural gas facility in Sulaymaniya. One rocket fell short but the other hit a storage facility setting off a fire and shutting down operations.
1920 US Consul in Baghdad said England hadn’t taken any serious steps to create an independent
Iraqi govt
The Mandate for Mesopotamia is a short overview of British rule and influence in Iraq after World War I. It covers Europe...
