1941 British Arab Legion left Palestine to take back Fort
Rutba, Anbar
from Iraqi police
1941 Arab Legion attacked by German aircraft and one
regiment refused to cross
Transjordan
border into Iraq
1941 British air strikes destroyed most of Iraqi air force
1941 6 more British planes landed at Habaniya air base from
Egypt
1941 Vichy France agreed to transfer weapons from Syria to
Iraq to use its air fields and okayed
landing of German planes
1941 Iraq Def Min Shawkat went to Turkey for talks Ankara
offered end of fighting
permission for UK to use bases in
Iraq In return UK would recognize Gayalani’s govt
1941 Iraq Fin Min Suwaidi went to Saudi Arabia to explain
conflict with England and
ask for
mediation Ibn Saud said Iraq should end war
1982 Iran announced it had reached pre-war border with Iraq
Iran-Iraq War
1990 Saddam claimed Iraq could build high tech capacitors
for use in nuclear triggers
2002 UK For Sec Straw told Sec of State Powell if Bush
decided on military
action
against Iraq Blair would back him
2003 Sec State Powell said US and UK would go to UN to
authorize occupation of
Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told staff rebuilding Iraq would not
be fast or easy and
needed time
2003 UK parliament announced review of pre-war intelligence
on Iraq
2003 ORHA met with ex-Iraqi army officers 2nd
time Said they could bring back 137,000
soldiers
2003 Def Min memo called for Iraqi soldiers to return to
duty and cooperate with
ORHA
2004 Bush said US goal was to build a free and peaceful Iraq
that was not a threat to
its
neighbors
2004 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Congress that Iraqi victims of
Abu Ghraib prison abuse
should be
compensated
2004 Pentagon est by end of 2005 Iraq war would cost US $150
bil 3 times higher than
White House
prediction before war
2004 Mahdi Army fought with British troops in downtown Basra
2004 US forces moved into Karbala and Amarah setting off
clashes with Mahdi Army
US forces
seized a govt complex in Najaf fighting Mahdi Army
2005 Battle of Qaim
2009 Gov Nujafi stopped by Peshmerga from going to hot air
balloon festival in Bashiqa
2009 KRG said they would start exporting oil from Taq Taq
and Tawke fields after
Oil Min
okayed connecting them to Turkish pipeline
2010 Pres Barzani set up investigation into murder of
journalist Zardasht Osman
KDP was
accused of involvement
2011 Anbar councilman complained that ISF continued arrest
of former ISF members
after
Maliki promised to end them
2011 ISI members staged a prison revolt in Baghdad killing 6
police and 11 prisoners
2012 Maliki held cabinet meeting in Kirkuk to highlight
problems between Arabs and
Kurds
2012 Allawi said Maliki was becoming an autocrat
2013 Iraqiya said Maliki was allowing militias to operate in
country
2014 US restarted training for Iraqi Counter Terrorism
Service in Jordan
2014 Anbar council again denied stories that ISF launched
operation to free
Fallujah
2015 IS broke out 30 prisoners from facility in Diyala
posing as inspectors
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