1915 British forces set out to
capture Amarah from Ottomans
1931 Iraq made first payment of oil revenues to Turkey in
return for giving up claims
to Mosul
1932 Kurdish revolt led by Barzanji put down by RAF
1941 Mayor of Baghdad worked out peace treaty with British
surrendering city
1941 Yunis Sabawi pro-Nazi leader appointed himself governor
of southern Iraq
and told
Jews to stay in homes
1941 Ger Amb to Iraq told Berlin UK-Iraq armistice signed False
rumor British seized
Mosul
airport forced ambassador to flee to Syria
1941 German High Command told German planes heading to and
based in Iraq to
gather in
Aleppo until further notice
1967 Jordan invited Iraqi army to deploy troops in its
territory for war with Israel
1971 Nixon went to Tehran Shah asked U.S. help to aid Kurds
against Baghdad
leading to
covert CIA operation
1981 Iran attacked Iraqi forces in Qasr-e-Shirin and
Dehloran in central and northern
Iran
1992 Bush proposed doubling budget for covert action to
overthrow Saddam
2001 1st of four Deputies Committee of NSC
meetings on revising Iraq policy
2003 Badr Brigade claimed it gave up its heavy weapons
Wasn’t true
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said that US would find Iraq’s WMD
2003 CIA Dir Tenet said that CIA had not compromised its intelligence
on Iraq
2005 Basra police chief said he had no control of 3/4 of his
officers who were loyal to
political
parties and militias and were carrying out assassinations
2005 Basra police chief said militias were the real power in
the province and they were
criminals
and bad people Said 2 main groups were Badr and Mahdi Army
2006 Maliki declared one month state of emergency in Basra
after 100 killed in
fighting
2007 Islamic Army of Iraq and ISI got into gun battle in
Amiriya Baghdad ISI claimed
it
controlled neighborhood US forces called in
2008 US put PKK on sanctions list as a terrorist group
2008 Report only 15% of Sawha integrated into govt as
promised
2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani placed in Samawa prison for trial
after arrested trying
to leave
country Charged with corruption
2011 ISI cell arrested that created fake human rights
organization as front group
2011 Protests in Ramadi demanding army withdraw from city
after police chief
killed in
raid
2012 2nd day of 4th auction round for
Iraq oil and gas fields Only 2 winning bids
2012 Iraq announced 5th auction round for Iraqi
oil and gas fields would be held
after
disappointing 4th auction
2012 Ninewa Gov Nujafi claimed almost enough votes in
parliament to hold
no
confidence move against Maliki
2013 Fight broke out amongst protesters in Fallujah between
those for and against
Anbar
becoming federal region
2014 ISIS kidnapped and killed 8 Naqshibandi members in
Baiji who would not
give it
allegiance
2014 Operation started to clear Saqlawiya north of Fallujah
in Anbar
2015 Kurdish MP said 1205 Peshmerga killed 6595 wounded
fighting IS since
Jun 2014
2015 Badr head Amiri dismissed PM Abadi’s plans to retake
Ramadi Claimed
only Hashd
could free city
2017 ABC News story offered more information on Rapid
Reaction unit abuses first
Reported in
Der Spiegel during Mosul campaign
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