1982 Saddam ordered Iraqi forces to withdraw from Shush Lost
3 divisions
25,000
casualties 15-20,000 captured
1982 Iran suffered 30,000 casualties due to human wave
attacks during Op Fath
ol-Mobin to
retake Shush
1990 US-UK officials seized equipment at Heathrow Airport
meant for nuclear triggers
1991 SCIRI head Hakim said Shiite rebels in south only
fighting in rural areas after
lost cities
to Iraqi army
1991 Iraqi intelligence memo said it had contacts with bin
Laden
1997 Sec of State Albright said Iraq had lied and blocked UN
inspections Said inspections
and
sanctions had contained Iraq
1998 UN Res 1154 okayed agreement between UN Sec Gen and
Iraq to allow inspectors
into
presidential palaces and other sites
2002 Arab League called on Iraq to comply with all UN
resolutions and end
sanctions
Rejected military action
2002 Gen Franks briefed Joint Chiefs on Iraq war plans Said
he would be ready by
10/1/02
2003 Gen Wallace Cmdr US V Corps told press war not going as
planned due to
resistance
of Fedayeen
2003 US 173rd Airborne Brigade and Peshmerga took
Irbil
2003 US and UK military meeting Surprised Iraqis weren’t
rising up against Saddam
2003 UN Res 1472 extended Oil for Food program for 45 days
after US
invasion
2003 US forces received warning of imminent WMD attack
2003 Rumsfeld accused Syria of sending military aid to Iraq
2003 British accused Syria of allowing foreign fighters to
use its territory to enter Iraq
2003 Chief weapons inspector Blix said US gave up on
inspections in early 2003
2003 Aid ship arrived in Um Qasr Basra with 200 tons of food
medicine and
blankets
for Iraqis
2003 Bush told group of veterans important to win the peace
after the war
2004 CPA shut down Sadr’s al-Hawza paper for inciting
violence
2006 Anbar Revenge Brigade claimed it killed 4 Al Qaeda in
Iraq leaders and a member
of Ansar
al-Sunna
2007 ISI set off chlorine bomb in Anbar
2007 Police and militias carried out retaliatory attacks on
Sunnis in Tal Afar after truck
bombing day before
2008 Maliki offered money to militiamen that turned in their
weapons during Charge
of Knights
op against Mahdi Army
2008 Government spokesman said talks going on with Sadrists
2008 Maliki met with tribes in Basra that supported
government
2008 U.S. and British planes bombed Mahdi Army in Basra
2008 Mahdi Army fired rockets at Badr offices in Amarah,
Maysan
2008 Fighting in 13 neighborhoods in Baghdad between Mahdi
Army and ISF
2008 Pres Talabani met with Gen Suleimani about stopping
fighting between govt
and Mahdi
Army
2009 Counterterrorism Unit arrested Fadhil Sahwa leader in
Baghdad on terrorism
charges
leading to firefight
2010 Supreme Court ruled that any coalition that gained a
majority after elections could
get 1st
opportunity to form a new govt
2010 Supreme Court ruling undermined Allawi’s Iraqiya right
to form a new govt and
gave it to
Maliki’s State of Law
2012 Baghdad said it would pay KRG $558 mil for Kurdish oil
exports from budget
2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed
fighting for it in Syria
2014 Families from Qara Tapa, Diyala started fleeing
militias
2016 Abadi said wanted 9 member cabinet with Electricity and
Defense ministers
staying
2017 Kirkuk council voted to fly the Kurdish flag over
government buildings in
province
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