1926 Verbal agreement made
between British and Turks to give Turkey 10% of
Mosul
oil revenues for 25 years in return for giving up claims to province
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1941 Last brigade of British 10th
Infantry Division from India landed in Basra
1941 British troops reached Baghdad Iraqi army barracks
bombed leading it to ask for
peace
1941 Baghdad mayor and army officers approached British
embassy asking for armistice
1941 German Amb to Iraq Grobba fled to Mosul Told German
Foreign Minister
Ribbentrop
Iraqis still in the fight
1941 Ger For Min Ribbentrop told Ger Amb to Iraq Grobba that
more planes arriving
Jun 1 Grobba said because of lack
of fuel Ger planes would have to be based in Syria
1946 PM Suwaidi resigned over controversy over Iraq-Turkey
Friendship Treaty Nuri
al-Said
negotiated treaty without consulting with govt
1959 Last British soldier departed Habaniya base in Iraq as
English military withdrew
from
country
1982 Protests and riots in Karbala Basra Nasiriyah Baghdad
over battlefield losses
in
Iran-Iraq War
1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at
Kharg Island
2003 Gen Conway 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
surprised hadn’t found any
Iraq WMD in searches Said intel
about Iraq having ready to use WMD was wrong
2003 Rumsfeld announced new Iraq Survey Group would be
formed to take over
search for
Iraq’s WMD
2003 Coalition forces looking for Iraq WMD increased to 1300
personnel
2003 Final report of UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD
programs
2003 UN inspectors said soil samples helped back Iraq story
that they destroyed
anthrax
2003 Blair said he was sure evidence of Iraq’s WMD would be
found
2003 Rumsfeld said war was not based upon lies because both
US and England said
Iraq had
WMD
2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD
labs were found
Inspection
found not labs
2003 UnderSecDef for Intel Cambone said only 70 of roughly
600 suspected WMD
sites in
Iraq had been inspected
2003 CIA Dir Tenet said that its Iraq intelligence was not
politicized by Bush admin
2003 US report on Iraqi police Said they were corrupt and
needed reform Called
for 6,000
advisers which US didn’t have
2004 US Op Smackdown to probe Mahdi Army defenses of Kufa
mosque began
2004 7 US soldiers disciplined for not stopping Abu Ghraib
prison abuse scandal
2004 Leaked parts of Ryder report on Abu Ghraib found 100s
of Iraqi prisoners were
held
despite lack of evidence
2005 Cheney said Iraq in “last throes” of an insurgency
2006 Pentagon report to Congress said violence increased
since 2004 from avg 400
attacks/wk spring 04 to 550
attacks/wk Aug 05-Feb 06 to 600 attacks/wk Feb-May 06
2007 US turned over security for Kurdistan to Peshmerga
2007 Op Alljah started to clear Fallujah
2007 2 day battle began in Baghdad between ISI and
insurgents that would eventually
form Sahwa
unit
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq arms supplier Abu Abdullah captured by
U.S. forces
2008 ISF raided Iraqi National Gathering HQ in Basra
2008 CIA Chief Hayden said ISI near strategic defeat in Iraq
2008 Ayatollah Sistani aide said he was opposed to Status of
Forces Agreement with
U.S.
2008 Fmr White House spokesman McClellan said Bush White
House so caught up
in pushing
war ignored intel that didn’t fit argument
2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani tried to leave Iraq but plane
turned around and arrested at
Baghdad
airport on corruption charges
2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani’s brother arrested trying to leave
Iraq by land Tried to
bribe
border police Also charged with corruption
2009 Gov Nujafi accused Peshmerga of human rights abuses and
breaking law in
Ninewa
2010 Diyala police chief complained his forces were
infiltrated by insurgents
2010 Maliki met with Pres Barzani in Irbil to lobby for 2nd
term
2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi escaped bombing on his motorcade in
Mosul
2011 Maysan council voted to keep US forces out of province
as objection to a US raid
2011 VP Mahdi resigned saying position no longer held power
and Najaf objected to
way VPs
elected
2012 Maliki said he was reinstating Saddam era army officers
as concession to Sunni
parties to stop
no confidence vote against him
2012 Pres Talabani met Pres Barzani Allawi Speaker Nujafi
Dep PM Mutlaq in
Sulaymaniya
and refused to back no confidence vote vs Maliki
2012 Sadr said if Iraqiya and Kurdish Coalition backed no
confidence vote against
Maliki he would
support it
2012 Badr and Fadhila wrote letter to Maliki saying they
supported him during no
confidence
move against him
2012 Iraq Oil Ministry held 4th auction for 12
oil and gas fields Only 1 winning bid
2013 Sadrists said replacing Maliki only solution to
political crisis in Iraq
2013 3 Reports militias killing civilians kidnapping people
manning checkpoints with
ISF in Baghdad
2013 Anbar governor escaped car bombing in Ramadi
2014 Ramadi protest leader said Sunni autonomy was way to go
and rejected
armed
struggle
2014 Protest in Qadisiyah over lack of services and
development
2014 Report Iran funding Asaib Ahl Al-Haq operations in
Fallujah and Jurf al-Sakhr
2015 IS held ceremony where Ramadi sheikhs gave it allegiance
2016 Hashd and Federal Police stopped displaced fleeing Sjar
Anbar Executed 12 men
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