1941 British forces captured Khan Nuqta fort on march from
Fallujah to
Baghdad
1941 British troops moved from
Basra to Baghdad take Ur
1941 British forces attacked Abu Ghraib canal but turned
back by Iraqis
1941 British intel spread rumor to Iraqi military that 100
tanks heading to Baghdad
Led PM
Gaylani to flee
1941 3rd shipment of German military supplies
arrived in Mosul Never used
1941 Iraq Chiefs of Staff decided to withdraw to Kirkuk to
avoid British attack on
Baghdad PM
Gayalni joined them
1968 Communist uprising began in southern Marshes
1981 Dawa blew up an ammo and fuel dump at Baghdad Airport
1990 Arab summit in Baghdad Saddam spoke about freeing the
Palestinians
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
1990 Arab summit Saddam accused Kuwait of breaking OPEC
quotas driving down
oil prices costing Iraq $14 bil called
Kuwait’s oil policy an act of war against Iraq
1990 At Arab summit Saddam personally warned Sheikh Sabah he
was being
manipulated in US conspiracy
against Iraq Demanded $27 bil in compensation from Kuwait
1990 Arab summit backed Iraq’s right to protect itself from
any Israeli
attack
1990 PLO chief Arafat said Saddam was bringing new
leadership to pan-Arab
cause
2003 Blair said he still believed Iraq had WMD
2003 DepDef Sec Wolfowitz said threat of Iraq came from its
WMD and links to
terrorists Said no one expected
finding Iraq’s WMD would be easy because so good at hiding them
2003 CIA-DIA report said that 2 trailers found during
invasion were mobile WMD labs
Denied
Iraqi claims trailers were for weather balloons
2003 CIA held conference call with reporters to brief them
on WMD mobile labs report
2003 DIA inspection team in Iraq sent memo to Washington 2
trailers not mobile
WMD labs
2004 Iraqi Governing Council agreed upon Iyad Allawi as head
of interim govt
2007 Report on US-Iran meeting US demanded Tehran stop
supporting militias
2008 Sadr called for weekly protests against security
agreement with US
2008 Fmr White House press sec McClellan’s book said White
House shaped war
debate so
force only option vs Iraq Said that Iraq war was not necessary
2009 Protest in Tal Afar to make it independent of Ninewa
Complained about
Gov Nujafi
and neglect
2009 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq demanded release of its members
from jail and to run
in
elections in return for releasing 5 Brits it kidnapped
2009 Maliki said he gave up with outreach to Saudis Said
futile and made Iraq look
weak
2009 Last British troops withdrew from Iraq
2011 Protests and clashes in Ramadi after raid killed police
chief ISF said he was
linked to
ISI Residents complained about army raids
2011 ISF raided protest organization HQ in Baghdad arresting
11 activists
2011 Report Maliki turning to Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to counter
Sadrists in Baghdad and
southern
Iraq
2012 KRG PM Barzani compared Maliki to Saddam claiming Kurds
were being
expelled
from Diyala and Kirkuk
2012 Meeting in Irbil with Speaker Nujafi Allawi Sadr
spokesman and Kurds over
no
confidence vote against Maliki
2013 Security ops against ISI in Anbar Ninewa Diyala
Salahaddin Babil Baghdad
2014 ISIS killed 8 Naqshibandi fighters in Baiji
2014 Peshmerga Min punished Peshmerga who protested not
getting paid in
Sulaymaniya
2014 Iraqi intelligence received report on neighborhoods in
Mosul ISIS would attack
in June
2015 New U.N. resolution to try to crackdown on IS smuggling
of antiquities from Iraq
and Syria
2015 Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander killed near
Ramadi
2015 Reinforcements arrived to try to take back Ramadi
Wouldn’t happen until Feb
2016
2016 PM Abadi approved parliament’s dismissal of Ninewa Gov
Nujafi
2017 Attack on final section of Mosul under IS control began
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