1941 German planes attacked British
Habaniya air base in Anbar
1950 1st flight of Near
East Air Transport Took Iraqi Jews to Israel Airline was
owned
by Jewish Agency who worked to get Jews to move to Israel
1950 When Israel created Iraqi govt
banned immigration Mar 1950 govt allowed
temporary
immigration for one year Stripped Jews of Iraqi citizenship and govt
confiscated their property
1982 Iraq counterattacked against
Iran’s Op Jerusalem in Khorramshahr
1984 Iraq sank
Panamanian oil tanker in Persian Gulf in tanker war
1985 Iranian offensive into Iraqi
southern marshes to seize Basra-Baghdad
highway
ended in failure
1985 Saudis offered peace deal
while Prince Faisal visited Iran Rejected by Tehran
1987 Iraq ended 1st
phase of attacks upon Kurdish villages
1991 Bush said he would oppose
lifting sanctions on Iraq as long as Saddam
was
in power
1994 SCIRI claimed start of
military campaign in Maysan marshes against Iraqi
govt
forces
1996 Iraq and UN signed memo
allowing Oil for Food program
2002 Rumsfeld asked Gen Franks to
plan for a fortress Baghdad scenario
2003 Iraqis met with British rep to
Iraq and demanded an interim govt
2003 US forces arrested Saddam’s Min of Industry Hwaish and
VP Marouf
2004 CIA and US military raided Chalabi’s home in Baghdad
Accused him of
providing intel to Iran Chalabi
claimed it was retaliation for his criticism of US
2004 US had arrest warrant for INC intelligence head Habib
but he’d fled
2004 US called off assault on Mahdi Army in old city Karbala
2004 NSC meeting asked what would happen if new sovereign
Iraq asked US to
leave
2004 Report US interrogators told guards at Abu Ghraib
prison to strip prisoners make
them wear
women’s close before questioning
2004 US army admitted lost Red Cross reports of abuse at Abu
Ghraib prison due to
bureaucracy
2005 US 1st Cav Div collected more than 100 abuse
cases by ISF over 6 months
including
beatings, electrocutions, choking in Baghdad
2005 US 3rd Inf Div collected 28 cases of abuse
by Iraqi units in Baghdad
2006 1st Maliki cabinet approved but with no
Interior Defense or National
Security
Ministers
2006 Interior Min Jabr switched to Finance Min in new
cabinet because he allowed Badr
Brigade to take
over ministry and police under Jaafari govt
2006 Maliki laid out 33 point program with terrorism
fighting corruption and services
top 3
2006 Defense Min adviser said violence so bad in Basra murderers
were running free
2007 Hezbollah operative Daqduq captured Was liaison between
Iran and militias
2008 Mother of Two Springs op ended in Mosul without success
2008 4,000-5,000 soldiers deployed to Sadr City after Sadr
ceasefire finally took
effect
2009 Report only 17,000 of 94,000 Sahwa given govt jobs so
far
2010 Sadr said he was returning to Iraq after leaving for
Iran in 07 over fear of US
assassination during Surge
2010 Sadr leader said that Sadrists opposed 2nd
term for Maliki
2010 US said Iran training and arming militiamen to
destabilize Iraq
2010 KRG said it would start oil exports the next day and
Baghdad okayed it
Demanded Baghdad
pay oil companies in KRG
2011 5 Madhi Army commanders escaped Taji prison
2012 PUK and KDP Finance Ministries said they had merged
2012 KRG said it was building independent oil pipeline to
Turkey Said it would reach 2
mil/bar/day
in production by 2014 Didn’t make that mark
2012 Meeting of political leaders decided to hold off on no
confidence vote against
Maliki
2013 ISIS launched 11 car bombs leaving 137 dead
2013 Maliki said some of the fake bomb detectors worked
20-50% of the time
2013 Anbar councilman said foreign companies were fleeing
province due to
increasing
violence
2013 Cabinet announced provincial elections in Anbar and
Ninewa would occur
Jun 20
2014 Iraqi intel warned army that large ISIS attack on Mosul
coming in June
2014 Iraqi army said it was surrounding Fallujah
2014 KRG parliament voted Qubad Talabani Dep PM
2014 Electricity and Municipality depts. in Sulaymaniya
protested over not being
paid
salaries
2014 KRG oil started being loaded on tanker in Turkey for
first time
2015 Gorran said it would support extending Pres Barzani’s term
if KRG switched to
parliamentary
system
2016 Sadrists took over Green Zone for second time Led to
clash with ISF 4 protesters
killed
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