This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 22

1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and Baghdad vilyats

            to Arabs if they were fighting on Ottoman side

1916 British attacked Sannaiyat but Ottomans turned them back British suffered

            1,200 casualties

1923 British troops occupied Rowanduz in military campaign to subdue Kurds opposed

            to being included in new Iraq Mandate

1969 After Shah ended 1937 border treaty with Iraq Iran sailed ship down Shatt al

            Arab waterway in violation of treaty

1969 Iraq retaliated by expelling 10,000 Iranians for Shah ending 1937 border treaty

            over Shatt al-Arab waterway

1980 Khomeini revealed that Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr had been executed and called for

            overthrow of Saddam

1991 Report that Iranian intel and Revolutionary Guard working in Iraq to help revolts

1998 Tariq Aziz letter to UN Said inspectors ignored last 7 yrs of progress Said intrusive

            inspections work of US to create justification for US military strike

2003 ORHA head Garner went to KRG to talk with Barzani and Talabani about interim

            Iraqi govt

2003 Barzani and Talabani suggested group of Iraqi advisers to help Garner rather than

            interim Iraqi govt

2003 Sadrists held second day of protests after its cleric Fartusi was arrested by US

2003 Only 10% of Baghdad’s electricity restored since city fell to US forces

2003 US sent 1000 more experts to look for Iraq’s WMD

2003 Chief UN inspector Blix told BBC US tried to discredit inspections at the Security

            Council

2003 UK general warned that British military not trained for postwar operations called

            for in Iraq

2003 NYTimes’ Miller told PBS NewsHour US found info on Iraq’s WMD Had

            destroyed stocks right before invasion Fooled UN inspectors

2004 Bremer said some Baathist officials would be able to return to their jobs

2004 After no real weapons turned over by insurgents in Fallujah Gen Conway said

            militants had days to do so or city would be attacked again

2006 Pres Talabani Asked Maliki to form new govt

(Musings On Iraq interview with Reuters’ Parker on Maliki’s biography)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki became a dictator)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP Said)

2007 ISI stopped bus and took 23 Yazidis off and executed them in Bashiqa, Ninewa

2008 Maliki promised $150 mil to rebuild Sadr City after fighting Mahdi Army was

            over

2009 16 Kurdish towns in Ninewa threatened to not cooperate with new Hadbaa run

            Ninewa council calling it Baathists

2010 Parliamentary election results were supposed to be certified but political disputes

            delayed that

2011 Protests in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities calling for release of prisoners better

services fighting corruption

2011 Sadr announced new social organizing project Munasiroon in Basra

2012 Attack on Najaf offices of Ayatollah Fayadh in wave of attacks against Iraq’s

            top clerics

2012 Turkey’s Erdogan compared Maliki to Saddam

2013 Tigris Ops Command stopped parliamentary delegation from visiting Hawija

            protest site after checkpoint attacked

2014 Pres Barzani threatened independence of Kurdistan if oil dispute with Baghdad

            continued

2015 Day after IS attacked Sahl al-Malih, Ninewa Peshmerga expelled Arab residents,

            looted and burned village

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