This Day in Iraqi History – Apr 26

1916 British arranged a ceasefire with Ottomans in Kut, Wasit after 146 day

            siege

1923 UK’s Iraq committee presented findings and okayed by cabinet to stay path in

            Iraq

1941 PM Gaylani asked Axis for military and financial aid against British

1947 Iraq left SF Conference on creating UN to protest creation of Israel

1987 Jordan and Saudis arranged meeting between Saddam and Syria’s Assad to try to

            improve ties

1990 Report Bush pushed greater economic ties with Iraq

1991 Kurdish refugees began leaving Turkish mountains for refugee camps in Kurdistan

            Baghdad offered amnesty to Kurds that fled during uprising

2003 Report Bush invaded Iraq to try to transform Middle East by creating a

            democracy and countering draw of terrorism

2003 White House said evidence Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before

            war and that proved war right

2003 Report no WMD found in sites Powell mentioned in his 03 UN speech

2003 Ayatollah Haeri issued fatwa from Iran saying clerics needed to fill power

            vacuum left by US invasion

2003 Sheikh Naifus of Albu Alwan in Babil arrested for taking part in executions of

rebels after 91 uprising

2004 Zarqawi announced his group Tawhid wal-Jihad

2004 US announced Iraqi police returning to Fallujah and would start join patrols

            with Iraqi Civil Defense Forces

2004 Aid agencies claimed Geneva Convention was violated in Battle of Fallujah due

            to civilian casualties

2006 Maliki told Rice and Rumsfeld he was going to fight terrorism improve services

            clean up police

2006 Barham Salah said Maliki was step towards reconciliation

2006 Amb Khalizad took credit for creating new coalition that appointed Maliki

            premier

2007 Congress passed bill calling for US withdrawal from Iraq by 10/1/07 Was

            vetoed by Pres Bush

2008 Chalabi called Petraeus saying he could speak for militias to negotiate ceasefire

            in Sadr City

2008 VP Hashemi said Accordance Front interested in ending its boycott of cabinet

2008 ISF said cleared last Sadr stronghold in Basra

2010 Baath exile faction led by Ahmad Yunis said wanted to unite with other faction

led by Izzat al-Duri during meeting in Damascus

2010 Human Rights Watch interviewed prisoners who were held at secret

            prison at Baghdad Muthanna Airport and tortured by ISF

2010 Kurdish member of Kirkuk council said displaced Arabs had to leave province

            and go home

2011 Maliki admitted his 100 day deadline to reform ministries was not enough time

2011 State of Law held counter protest in Mosul supporting Maliki

2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi called for strike in response to security forces attacking

            protest camp in Mosul

2012 Sulaymaniya court gave protest organizer life in prison after policeman killed

            at protest in Halabja

2012 Report that Kurds being threatened and driven out of Khanaqin district northeast

            Diyala

2012 Sadr went to Irbil to meet Pres Barzani over no confidence vote against Maliki

2013 4 Sunni mosques bombed in Baghdad after noon prayers

2013 Anbar protest leaders called for a popular army to be formed to protect demo sites

2013 Fallujah protest site announced formation of Pride and Dignity Army to protect

            demonstrators from ISF

2013 5 Intelligence officers killed at Fallujah protest site

2013 ISF retook Suleiman Beq from insurgents who seized town for several days

2015 Kataib Hezbollah withdrew from southern Fallujah claiming Abadi and

            US were preventing it from fighting there

2015 Head of Anbar council announced Abadi okayed recruiting locals for Hashd

2016 Sadrists protested while parliament voted in 5 new ministers as part

            of Abadi’s technocratic cabinet

2017 Hashd took Hatra Ninewa

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