1917 British started Samarra offensive against Ottomans
after taking Baghdad
1975 KDP announced ceasefire with govt after Iran said it
would stop giving it aid
following Algiers
Agreement ended border dispute with Iraq
1984 UN team arrived in Iraq to investigate use of chemical
weapons while Iran
made new
claims its forces hit with mustard gas in Manjoon Islands
1988 Iraq launched Op Zafar 7 in Khurmal and Bait
al-Moqaddas 3 in Sulaymaniya
both in
Kurdistan Captured 7 Kurdish villages
1991 Pres Bush said Iraqi helicopters should not be used to
put down Shiite and
Kurdish
uprisings
1991 Kurdish uprising spread to Zakho
1991 Kurdistan Front announced council to run Kurdish areas
during uprising
1991 13 325 Iraqi opposition leaders from 23 factions met in
Beirut to discuss uprising
in Iraq Led
to Free Iraqi Council led by Saad Salih Jabr
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1991 Beirut meeting)
1991 Was anti-govt protest in Baghdad
2002 Blair For Pol Adv Manning met with National Sec Adv
Rice’s staff Manning said
US not
considered problems with going to war with Iraq
2003 UK Foreign Office legal adv Brummell wrote Attny Gen Lord
Goldsmith saying
didn’t need
2nd UN resolution to go to war with Iraq
2003 Lord Goldsmith changed his opinion saying 2nd
UN resolution not needed for action
against
Iraq
2003 Blair told Bush not to give ultimatum to Saddam until
he had dealt with parliament
Bush said
OK
2003 Blair told still hope that 2nd resolution
authorizing force against Iraq could be
passed in
UN
2003 USAID official told aid groups Iraq war would be quick
Needs would be met
Iraqis
would regain control US would be out in a year
2005 Dep Industry Min said there was systematic looting of
factories and weapons sites
after 03
invasion
2006 Bush said Iraqi forces would take over most security
jobs by end of 2006 and that
way forward
would continue to be difficult
2007 ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi released tape refuting
criticism of his group
2008 Gen Petraeus complained that Iraqi leaders were not
taking advantage of
improved security
in Iraq to move forward on reconciliation
2008 US military said that ISI could be reduced but would
not go away because it
was so
adaptable
2009 SIIC’s Hakim said he wanted reforms within National
Alliance due to disputes
with Maliki
2012 Oil Ministry said KRG not meeting its export quota
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