1915 Ottoman campaign to try to retake
Basra from British failed
1948 2nd Railway strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1983 Iraq claimed it repulsed Iran’s Op Wa al-Fajr killing
9,800 Iranians
1983 Iraqi High Command warned Iran that had new modern
weapons and would use
them for
first time in war Meant new WMD capabilities
1992 US UK France warned Iraq to stop military buildup along
border with Kurdistan
1995 UN Res 986 created Oil for Food Program allowing $1 bil
in Iraq oil exports
every 90 days for food and
humanitarian aid
1995 Saddam initially rejected UN Res 986 thinking that
inspectors would clear Iraq
of WMD and
sanctions would soon end Proved wrong
2002 Vanity Fair article talked with Iraqi defector Saadi
who claimed Iraq building
WMD
2003 Pentagon said major fighting in Iraq was over Bush
claimed there was some
evidence
Saddam was dead
2003 White House said Iraq had WMD that was what war was
about and they would be
found
2003 Local tribes in Najaf scattered Sadrists threatening to
expel Ayatollahs Sistani,
Hakim and
Fayadh from city
2003 Association of Muslim Scholars founded by Harith Dhari
2003 1st joint patrol in Baghdad between Iraqi
police and U.S. forces
2003 Final IAEA report given to UN Found no active Iraq
nuclear program Niger
docs were
fakes aluminum tubes for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Report PUK was telling Arabs to leave villages around
Kirkuk city
2003 Report 40 people killed in fighting between Kurds and
Baathists in Kirkuk City
2004 UN representative Brahimi outlined power of interim
Iraqi govt including
positions
2004 5 bridges connecting central to southern Iraq destroyed
limiting movement of US
forces
2004 Russian announced it would withdraw 800 civilian
contractors from Iraq due to
security
concerns
2004 Italian security guard became first foreign hostage executed
by insurgents
2006 US Amb to Iraq Khalilzad said militias were bigger
problem than insurgents due
to
sectarian violence
2006 Iraqi general said militias would not put down their
weapons as long as ISF
couldn’t
provide security
2008 Sadr returned to Iraq from Iran Fled to Qom during
Surge fearing US would
target him
2008 Awakening Council in Baghdad and Abu Ghraib formed
political party to run in 09
provincial
elections
2008 Kurd delegation met with Maliki over peshmerga budget
oil law and Kirkuk
2009 Parliamentarians picked Iyad al-Samarraie to become new
speaker
2009 Was reconciliation meeting in Abu Saifan, Baghdad
between Sahwa, tribes
and Mahdi
Army
2009 VP Mahdi said Sahwa had been infiltrated by ISI while
Anbar Awakening was
legitimate
2009 Army had to take over 10 checkpoints in Iskandiriya
after Sahwa walked off job
because
hadn’t been paid
2009 Insurgents blew up 4 houses belonging to displaced
families that had returned in
Baquba Flyers said returnees would
be attacked
2010 State of Law complained about parties going to other
countries to discuss
putting
together new govt
2010 Dep PM Issawi went to Iran to talk about forming new
govt
2010 Pres Talabani said when Shiite parties agreed on
premier Kurds would support
them
2010 Iraq asked to buy 24 F-16 fighters from US
2010 Iranian Amb to Iraq said trade between two countries
had reached $7 bil in 2009
Was almost
all Iranian imports to Iraq
2011 State of Law parliamentarians walked out of session to
vote on vice presidents
stopping
election
2011 Media activist beaten by Asayesh in Kalar
2012 KRG official said there were around 700 advisers
experts and general managers
in Kurdish
govt
2012 Dep PM Mutlaq said arrest warrants for Election
Commission members was
political
move
2012 Pres Barzani said arrest of Election Commission head
was another attempt by
Maliki to
centralize control over govt
2012 Sadr said Maliki was behind arrests of Election
Commission head so that he
could
control future votes
2012 Integrity Comm reported prisons not following orders to
release prisoners found
not guilty
or who had served sentences unless got payoffs
2012 Followers of Mahmoud Sarkhi held protest in Baghdad
demanding release of
their
followers
2013 Maliki said he would expose politicians connected with
terrorism if he was made
to appear
before parliament for questioning
2013 Maliki said provincial elections would be step to
forming majority govt
2013 Were coordinated bombings in Baghdad, Babil, Dhi Qar,
Salahaddin, Anbar,
Kirkuk,
Diyala and Ninewa
2013 Sulaymaniya mayor died in custody Asayesh said he hung
himself His family
claimed he
was tortured
2013 Gorran leader said he was against 3rd term
for Pres Barzani
2015 Haider Sesho said that his arrest by KDP was illegal
That he would work with
Peshmerga but
not follow their orders
2015 New offensive to take Garma from IS in Anbar launched
2016 Maliki Allawi and Sadr MPs voted to dismiss Speaker
Jabouri but didn’t have
votes
Maliki and Allawi wanted to weaken Abadi
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