1935 National Brotherhood Party started revolt in Daghahara
Led King Faisal to
create new
cabinet with Brotherhood Party
1981 Saddam said unless Iran agreed to ceasefire he would
aid Iranian opposition
groups
1985 Iraq carried out air raid on Tehran Iran fired SCUDs at
Baghdad in War of Cities
1988 First detention center for Kurds displaced during Anfal
campaign set up
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 Iraq executed UK Observer journalist Batoft for
reporting on missile program
Condemned
in West
1991 Rebels in Diwanaiya attempted and failed to take Hillah
1991 Saddam declared southern revolt over
1991 Iraqi govt forces began operation to retake Tuz
Kharmato from Peshmerga
1991 U.S. shot down Iraqi fighter after warned it no flights
allowed during uprisings
2003 Special Republican Guard withdrew $1 bil from Central
Bank of Iraq under
Uday
Hussein to pay off sheikhs to put down expected rebellions
2003 Iraqi security forces tried to stamp out signs of
Kurdish opposition in Kirkuk City
2003 ORHA head Garner told Sec Def Rumsfeld plan was only to
dismiss top two
officials from each Iraqi ministry
and not carry out any deBaathification policy
2003 Rumsfeld okayed Garner’s plan to not have
deBaathification policy
2003 Rumsfeld complained Garner picked non-Pentagon people
to run some Iraqi
ministries
Wanted them all from Defense
2003 CIA gave explosive to Kurdish team which blew up
Mosul-Baghdad railway starting
covert
action campaign before invasion
2004 Bush told Blair Chalabi up to no good using
deBaathification committee for
his own
ends
2005 Mahdi Army attacked college engineering students in
Basra for having mixed male-
female
party in park Led to protests vs Sadrists
2005 Report leaked that Halliburton overcharged US for fuel
imports to Iraq by more
than $108
mil
2005 Italy announced it would withdraw its approximate 3,000
troops from Iraq
2005 Ukraine withdrew 130 of its soldiers from Iraq
2006 Iraq Study Group began creating alternative Iraq
strategy for Bush admin
2012 One of Hashemi’s guards who had accused him of
terrorism died in custody
Authorities
claimed kidney failure but pictures showed torture
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