1941 PM Hashemi deposed in Golden Square officers coup after
Hashemi tried
to remove
them
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1941 coup)
1941 Army surrounded royal palace Regent escaped to Anbar
with help of US
ambassador
Nuri al-Said and other pro-British politicians fled Iraq
1941 US and England believed Iraq coup part of German plan
in coordination with
invasion of
Balkans and Libya Wasn’t
1941 Golden Square officers thought British were plotting
against them
1975 Iraqi amnesty offer to Kurdish rebels and army
deserters expired
1975 Iran closed border to Kurds fleeing Iraqi government
offensive against them
1980 Islamic Action Organization made attempt on Dep PM
Tariq Aziz at Mustansiriya
Univ, Baghdad
1988 End of 2nd Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1989 Saddam held elections for new parliament as part of
political reform after
Iran-Iraq
War 160 of 250 seats went to Baathists
1990 Saddam speech said if US supported Israeli attack on
Iraq he would burn
Israel
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
1991 Peshmerga repelled govt attack to retake Sulaymaniya
1991 Saddam’s forces put down Kurdish revolt in Zakho
1991 Barzani said 3 mil Kurds had fled to northern mountains
along Turkish border
to escape
govt attacks
2002 UK ambassador to US Meyer warned Bush thinking of war
with Iraq by
autumn but
no postwar plans
2003 US attacked Najaf Kut Samawa Hindiya Headed towards
Hillah
2003 ORHA head Garner made 1 day trip to Um Qasr port 1st
time in Iraq
2004 CPA adviser Larry Diamond told Bremer that there was a
security vacuum in
southern
Iraq being filled by militias
2004 Gen Kimmitt promised to pacify Fallujah after
Blackwater contractors killed
2004 US intel officer told press regime change in Iraq could
have been promoted as part
of war on
terror but admin wanted to scare public using WMD
2005 Report White House and CIA leadership created
environment where only threat of
Iraq WMD
reports were acceptable
2008 Maliki praised Badr and Dawa militia for helping to
fight Mahdi Army in Basra
2008 Maliki promised jobs and better services after Charge
of Knights in Basra
2009 National Reconciliation Committee said it began talks
with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
2009 Baghdad was supposed to take control of all Sahwa in
Iraq from US forces
2010 Iran said it would host Iraqi parties that wanted to
talk about forming new govt
2010 Gorran head Mustafa taken to court for defamation
against Pres Talabani
2010 Iraqiya announced regional tour of Egypt Qatar Turkey
Syrian and Iran to drum
up support
for forming new govt
2011 Protests in Baghdad against corruption and demanded
release of prisoners
2012 Maliki said that if Pres Assad lost power there would
be problems throughout
the Middle
East Condemned Gulf States arming Syrian rebels
2012 KRG halted oil exports for Baghdad over payment dispute
2012 VP Hashemi went to Qatar violating his arrest warrant
2013 ISI suicide truck bomb on Tikrit police station and
govt center
2013 PUK said it would run independently of KDP in next KRG
elections
2014 KRG said it would export oil for Baghdad to help with
negotiations with central
government
over industry but didn’t happen
2014 Kataib Hezbollah said that it was involved in Shjariya
operation in Anbar
2015 Mopping up operations in Tikrit with small attacks in
north
2015 UN received reports that govt forces looting Tikrit
after it was liberated and
burning
homes
2015 Sadr complained about brazen militias and said any that
broke law should
be brought
to justice
2015 IS video of Ninewa sheikhs giving it baya
2016 PM Abadi’s nominee for Oil Minister in new technocratic
cabinet withdrew
name saying
no consensus on changes
2016 Maliki faction of State of Law said it would only support
partial cabinet change
2016 Kurdish Alliance said if Fin Min Zebari was replaced
they would not vote
on new
cabinet
2016 Higher Educ Min Shahristani and For Minister Jaafari
refused to step down for
Abadi’s
cabinet changes
2016 Solution List complained that Abadi’s new cabinet was
way to exclude some
parties
from power
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