1802 Wahabi army from Arabia sacked Karbala 2,000-5,000
killed
1917 Battle of Istabulat in Diyala started between British
and Ottomans with
the Turks
being defeated
1926 Turks told British it no longer wanted Mosul just a
stake in the province’s oil
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1941 Hitler told military aid to Iraq could only be
delivered by air and that would require
stop in
Syria which would need approval of Vichy France
1941 Hitler got intel of large British forces in Iraq and
more arriving so was skeptical
of
providing aid to Gaylani govt
1981 Kuwait gave Iraq $2 bil interest free loan to help pay
for Iran-Iraq War
1991 Iraqi govt forces began attack on southern marshes in
Maysan Basra and Dhi Qar
to root out
rebels
2002 Telegraph reported Iraq supported Ansar al-Islam Al
Qaeda affiliate in Kurdistan
2003 CPA created to take over running Iraq for US replacing
ORHA
2003 ORHA staff and head Garner entered Baghdad Gen Franks
had kept them out He
didn’t want
civilians to get in way of military
2003 Rumsfeld took advice of Gen Franks and cancelled
sending 50,000 additional
troops to
Iraq from 1st Cavalry Div
2003 5,000 Sadrists protested arrest of its cleric Fartusi
by U.S.
2003 NY Times article claimed Iraq had destroyed WMD right
before war and moved
rest to Syria Story proved false
2003 NY Times article said Iraqi scientist told Americans
Iraq had been working on
WMD for
years and led US soldiers to banned precursors
2003 Foreign Sec Straw told Blair he was skeptical evidence
of Iraq’s WMD wound be
found
Thought it might be destroyed
2003 Iraqi scientist told US Iraq had destroyed WMD
equipment right before invasion
Had sent
some to Syria since 90s Worked with Al Qaeda Story false
2003 2 US congressmen went to Syria and got Assad’s promise
not to harbor any
Baathists
and expel those that tried to flee there
2004 Car bombs in Basra City killed more than 70
2004 CIA analyst told Congress no working relationship
between Iraq and Al Qaeda
2006 United Iraqi Alliance nominated Dawa’s Nouri al-Maliki
as new PM Mahmoud
Mashadani
of Accordance Front would become Speaker of Parliament
2008 Oil Minister objected to Kurds’ independent oil deals
2008 U.S .general said if Sadr didn’t hold back Mahdi Army
US would fight them
2009 Sahwa in Adhamiya put “X”s on houses of displaced
Shiites and told them
not to come
back
2010 State of Law said Sadr reason no new govt after
elections because Sadr opposed
to Maliki 2nd
term
2011 Human Rights Watch report Govt arrested and tortured
protesters in
Baghdad and
held some in secret prison at Muthanna Airport
2011 Drive by shooting on opposition radio station that
supported protests in
Sulaymaniya
2011 2 offices of Kurdistan Islamic Group attacked in
Sulaymaniya
2011 Lawyers protested in Fallujah demanding US withdrawal
and release of prisoners
2011 Clash in Mosul as army tried to stop demonstration
2011 Maliki told US joint chiefs head Adm Mullen ISF could
handle security after
US
withdrawal
2011 5,000 Sadrists held march in Basra to commemorate
formation of Mahdi Army
2013 Maliki blamed anti-govt protests for increase in
violence in country
2013 Protest leader in Hawija said army had arrested 114
demonstrators after
checkpoint
was attacked and 1 soldier killed
2015 Pres Barzani and other KRG politicians complained about
PKK being in Sinjar
Claimed
trying to take over district
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