This Day In Iraqi History - May 27

1917 UK Col Clayton worried Sykes-Picot would create opposition by Sharif of

            Mecca against UK taking Baghdad

1941 Operation Regulta began British forces marched north from Basra to

Kut and onto Baghdad

1941 British forces moved from Fallujah to cut Baghdad-Mosul road and railway

1941 PM Gaylani told Italians he was disappointed with Axis assistance

1947 Month after returning to Iraq Mustafa Barzani started another revolt against govt

1991 Kurdish parties threatened to go back to fighting if deal not reached with Baghdad

            over autonomy

1993 UN Resolution 833 set Iraq-Kuwait border

1995 PUK and KDP met to maintain Kurdish parliament during civil war

2003 Rumsfeld said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before war but they

            would be found

2003 Preliminary report sent to Washington said 2 captured trailers were not mobile

            WMD labs as first thought

2003 Cleric at Fallujah mosque praised 1^st serious attack on US troops 2 soldiers killed

            9 injured at checkpoint

2003 Outgoing ORHA head Garner told Bush and Rumsfeld Iraq making progress and

            US would be out of country in weeks

2003 New UN Rep to Iraq deMello said that the sooner Iraqis had power the better

2004 Sadr agreed to deal to end fighting US forces in Najaf and other southern cities

2005 Badr militiamen in Wolf commando brigade blamed for sectarian attacks

            on Sunnis

2005 Sheikh Janabi of National Dialogue Council said violence had changed to killing

            based upon identity Sunnis getting killed for being Sunni

2008 Maliki issued arrest warrants for new party in Diyala made up of Sahwa Part of

            crackdown on Sunni in province

2008 Fmr Under Sec of Def Feith criticized Bush for switching goal of Iraq war from

            threat of Saddam to spreading democracy

2009 US Army Chief of Staff Gen Casey said US could be fighting in Iraq for next 10

yrs

2009 Iraq signed 2 year deal with IMF for $7 bil to help with budget deficit

2011 Anbar council rejected protest calls to make province federal region

2011 Protest in Baghdad over lack of services demanded release of prisoners

2012 Pres Barzani said KDP and PUK peshmerga would be united by end of year Still

            hasn't happened

2012 Kurdish Coalition said hadn’t decided on no confidence vote against Maliki 

2013 13 ISI car bombs in Baghdad killed 36 wounded 147

2013 Sadr gave Maliki 24 hrs to have ISF clear Asaib Ahl Al-Haq from streets of

            Baghdad

2014 New op in Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil four days after declared freed

2014 Protest in Nasiriya over lack of electricity and services

2014 Report Iran pushing PUK to support 3^rd term for Maliki

2015 Iranian Foreign Min denied Iranian troops fighting in Baiji said only advisers

2015 Fmr MP Othman said 2,822 Peshmerga killed fighting IS since June 2014

2015 Report Army and Hashd ordered to shut bridge to displaced trying to flee Anbar

            into Baghdad

2016 Sadrists protest in Baghdad Police fired tear gas to break them up Demos

            in Babil Karbala Basra Dhi Qar Muthanna too

2016 Kataib Hezbollah stopped large group of displaced fleeing Sjar Anbar abducted

            73 men not seen afterward

2017 Iranian Revolutionary Guard general killed advising Hashd around Baaj western

            Ninewa

2017 Toronto Star printed story by Der Spiegel author providing more information on

            abuses by Rapid Reaction unit during Mosul battle

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