1935 Govt arrested cleric Asadallah follower of Ayatollah
Ghita who had been
demanding
concessions from govt
1935 Arrest of cleric Asadallah led to revolt by Abu Hassan,
Bani Zurayij and Zawalim
tribes
against monarchy
1941 UK Foreign Min Eden told parliament if Iraq withdrew
forces from Habaniya and
fighting
stopped London willing to talk Policy was to remove PM Gaylani
1941 British and Assyrian forces attacked and drove off
Iraqi forces surrounding
Habaniya
409 Iraqi soldiers captured Iraqis suffered 1,000 casualties
1941 Iraqis lost initiative in Anglo-Iraq War when gave up
in Habaniya Had
no plan or
leadership to do more than lay siege to base
1941 British and Assyrian forces took Sin al-Dhiban, Anbar
captured 300 Iraqi soldiers
1941 British planes destroyed Iraqi column heading for
Habaniya inflicting over 1,000
casualties
and prisoners taken
1941 PM Gaylani told Mufti of Jerusalem to contact Germans
and ask them for
immediate
aid
1941 German deal with Vichy France allowed military
equipment to be moved from
Syria to
Iraq to fight British
1941 German air unit sent to Syria bound for Mosul to
confront British
1941 More British troops landed in Basra
1941 Churchill dismissed UK Mid-East cmdr Gen Wavell for his
objections to military
action in
Iraq
1963 Soviet Union said it supported Mustafa Barzani and his
KDP
1991 Iraq letter to UN accused US of sending in counterfeit
dinars to undermine
economy
1991 2nd round of Baghdad-Kurd talks started
Barzani led delegation
1998 100 US peace activists led by former Attn Gen Ramsey
Clark arrived in Iraq with
$4 mil in
medicine
2003 Bush speech said building democracy in Iraq would be
like what US did in post
WWII
Germany and Japan
2003 Bush announced Paul Bremer as head of new CPA to run
postwar Iraq
2003 Bush told Bremer he had whatever time he needed to put
Iraq back together
2003 ORHA agreed to allow Baath members to return to
government jobs and police
2003 NY Times Kristof OpEd used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed
source on Iraq-Niger
uranium
deal Accused US intel of covering up differences over story
2003 NY Times OpEd said US intel “deceived” world on
Iraq-Niger Deal Said
White House
and State Dept kept using story despite denial
2003 NY Times OpEd said that Fmr Amb Wilson knew that
Iraq-Niger docs were
fakes
Wilson never saw docs and went to Niger 8 months before US got them
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 NSC meeting on how to frame and publicize the coming
return of sovereignty to
Iraq
2004 First large scale fight broke out between US forces and
Mahdi Army in Najaf
2004 Wash Post published new pictures of Abu Ghraib prisoner
abuse
2006 British helicopter shot down over Basra killing 5
soldiers When British moved to
secure
wreckage were attacked by 300 from Mahdi Army
2008 ISF raided hospital and police stations in Baghdad
accusing officers and staff
of being
Mahdi Army members
2008 ISF raided Sadr offices in Kut
2009 Sahwa in Ghaziliya Baghdad complained about his men
leaving because
not getting
paid by govt
2009 Dawa MP said new offensive in Diyala would fail because
insurgents had
fled to
Kurdistan
2010 Maliki govt announced start of 5 year anti-corruption
plan
2013 Report said politicians manipulating Central Bank of
Iraq dollar auctions
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