This Day In Iraqi History - May 30

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 10^th 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 1^st 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 2^nd 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 4^th 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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