1919 War Min Churchill wrote PM
George that British army was overstretched
with
new additions like Mesopotamia
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq)
1938 Iraqi constitution Article
89a criminalized communism
1941 PM Gaylani went to Turkish Amb to Iraq saying British
violating 1930 treaty and
expected
English air strikes any time
1941 PM Gaylani asked Turkish ambassador to contract British
and try to stop conflict
Message was
passed to British ambassador to Iraq
1941 Iraqi police opened fire on British workers in Rutba,
Anbar England responded by
sending
forces from Transjordan to town
1941 British bombers sent from Egypt to Shaiba air base in
Basra
1941 1st Battalion of Iraq’s 11th Inf
Brigade sent from Baghdad to Fallujah to confront
British
1948 Iraqi volunteers defeated by Jewish forces in Battle of
Katamon in 1st Arab Israeli
War
1959 500,000 Communists marched demanding role in Gen
Qasim’s govt
1969 Iraq became 1st Arab country to recognize
East Germany as part of alliance
with Soviet
Union
1989 Talabani and PKK’s Ocalan signed cooperation agreement
in Damascus
1991 Saddam said that fighting spirit of Iraqis led Bush to
call a cease-fire in Gulf War
1991 Report 68,000 displaced caused by uprising following
Gulf War
1994 Land dispute in Qala Dizel began civil war between PUK
and KDP 400 killed
in fighting
over next month
1997 Turkey with support of KDP started new campaign against
PKK in northern
Kurdistan
Claimed killed over 2000 PKK fighters KDP lost 200
2002 FBI and CIA told media 9/11 hijacker Atta did not meet
Iraqi intel in Prague April
2001
2002 Bush told Press Sec Fleischer he didn’t like
“motherfuckers” like Saddam who
gassed
their own people “assholes” who lied to the world
2002 Bush told Press Sec Fleischer he was going to kick
Saddam’s ass
2003 Bush gave Mission Accomplished speech declaring victory
against Iraq Linked
invasion to 9/11 Said war eliminated
ally of Al Qaeda Now terrorists could not get WMD from Iraq
2003 White House officials gave briefings that they thought
Saddam had been killed
during
start of invasion
2003 British memo said it supported ORHA but that
organization was not delivering
in Iraq and
lacked strategy
2003 Grenades thrown into US base in Fallujah wounding 7
soldiers
2004 Bush announced that Bremer would select Iraqi
transitional government
2004 Reports of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners
2004 Secret report leaked that provided evidence of Abu
Ghraib prisoner abuse and US
military
leadership didn’t stop it
2005 Memo leaked that Blair was looking for justification
for war in Jul 2002 which
he denied
it at the time
2006 Sen Biden and Council on For Rel head Gelb published OpEd
arguing for
federalism
in Iraq based upon Sunnis Shiia Kurds regions
2011 KRG Dep Inter Min Karim said govt would not allow any
protests without
permission
after crackdown in Sulaymaniya
2013 Maliki said he would take on armed protesters in Anbar
2013 Kurdish alliance said new deal with Maliki would end
their boycott of cabinet
Maliki
didn’t follow through
2013 Maliki-Kurd deal included dealing with disputed areas,
amending budget paying
peshmerga
distributing revenues
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