This Day In Iraqi History - May 13

1915 British forces moved north to try to encircle Ottoman forces in Qurna

1935 Muntafiq tribe joined revolt against monarchy

1941 Iraq told German ambassador to Turkey that it agreed to Turkish offer to

            mediate with England

1941 Golden Square officers rejected Turkey’s offer to mediate and threatened to shoot

            PM Gaylani He offered to resign Mufti of Jerusalem had to intervene

1941 1st trainload of Nazi German war supplies arrived in Mosul to support PM

Gaylani’s govt Never used Vichy France sent military equipment to Iraq

1941 British forces bombed Syrian-Mosul railway to try to block Axis aid to Iraq

1941 Jordanians from Palestine arrived at Fort Rutba in Anbar and found it abandoned

            by Iraqis

1941 German planes attacked British forces at Habaniya air base 1 British plane shot

            down by German plane over Mosul

1941 Egyptian Chief of Staff Gen Masri arrested while attempting to fly to Iraq to join

            fight vs British

1983 Tariq Aziz went to Paris to ask for new arms deal with France

1984 Iran attacked Kuwait tanker carrying Iraqi oil in Persian Gulf Was retaliation

            for Iraq attacks on Iranian oil industry  

1987 UN investigation said Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians

1991 Kurds attacked police station in Zakho

1997 Iraqi army clashed with Bani Said tribe in southern Iraq

2002 Def Sec Rumsfeld said US didn’t need to connect Iraq and 9/11 to go to war

            Said main reason was WMD

2003 CPA official briefed British of plan to disband Iraqi army and build a new one

            Brits didn’t object

2003 White House official said Iraq may not have had stocks of WMD but just

            capability to make them

2003 Rumsfeld told Bremer he would be responsible for temporary governing of

            Iraq

2003 Mass grave of 15,000 victims of 91 uprising found in Mahawil, Babil

2004 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace told Senate US interrogation methods used in Iraq

            violated Geneva Conventions

2007 Abu Musah arms supplier to Iranian backed Special Groups arrested

2007 Jihad and Reform Front got into gun battle with ISI in Baghdad

2008 ISF raided Sadr offices in Shula Baghdad arresting 30

2008 Report most insurgents fled Mosul before govt started offensive there

2008 Fmr State Dept official said agency never interested in fighting corruption in Iraq

2009 Denmark latest European country to start deporting Iraqi refugees

2009 Hadbaa party was in talks with Baghdad to try to force Kurds to participate in

            Ninewa council that they were boycotting

2010 Iraqi general said Sahwa were like a militia that needed to be disarmed and that

            members of Maliki govt distrusted them

2010 Christian party said insurgents were threatening Christians and Assyrians in

            Mosul trying to drive them out of city

2011 Protest in Baghdad called for better services

2011 Iraqiya blamed Maliki for assassination attempts on 3 of its members

2011 World Health Org report said Iraq one of only 2 countries where life expectancy

            went down in MENA Dropped from 68 to 66 yrs from 2000-09

2012 Report that Pres Talabani supported Maliki while Sadr Speaker Nujafi Pres

Barzani and Allawi wanted no confidence vote

2012 State Dept cut Iraq police training program

2012 Report that Syrian govt was arresting and deporting Iraqis

2013 Arguments between Ramadi and Fallujah sites over which represented Anbar

            demonstrators

2013 Sheikh Saadi said talks beginning between Ramadi protest site and govt

2014 ISF claimed progress in Fallujah op MPs and experts warned that ISF failing due

to bad logistics

2014 ISIS began car bomb wave

2015 Rumors of suicide bombers led to riot amongst Shiite pilgrims in Adhamiya,

            Baghdad burning homes and cars

2016 Protests in Wasit Muthanna Babil Basra Dhi Qar Baghdad calling for govt

            reform

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