1941 German diplomat arrived in Syria to organize arms
shipments to Iraq
1941 Start of 100 German and 20 Italian airplanes landing in
Syrian bases to
fight
British in Iraq
1941 British planes bombed Iraqi police holding Fort Rutba,
Anbar while Iraqi
reinforcements arrived
1941 British cmdr in India Gen Auchinleck told Chiefs of
Staff British had to deal
with Iraq
1941 PM Churchill told Mid-East commander Gen Wavell he had
to take bold military
action
against Iraq and wouldn’t negotiation with PM Gaylani
1941 Jordanian soldiers mutinied and refused to cross over
into Iraq 240 men left unit
1982 Iran cut off 2 Iraqi divisions and regained 116 sq mi
in Khuzistan province
1984 State Dept memo said that new pro-Iraq policy could
lead to export of dual
use
equipment for Baghdad’s nuclear program
1991 US forces withdrew from southern Iraq after Gulf War
1992 Saddam discussed assassinating Mubarak and King Fahd
because they backed
US in Gulf
War
2001 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy fit
specifications for rocket
launchers
IAEA found similar tubes during inspections in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 Gen Franks ordered commanders to plan for including
Turkey in Iraq
invasion
plans
2003 US and UK offer draft resolution to UN to make them
occupying powers in Iraq
2003 Rumsfeld US would keep as many troops as necessary in
Iraq and would take
more than
year to build Iraqi govt
2003 1st joint US-Iraqi patrols started in
Baghdad
2003 Sadrist cleric called for revenge attacks upon
Baathists
2003 US general met with Iraqi officers about getting Iraqi
soldiers back to their
units and
to stop looting and impose order
2003 Bush signed memo officially making Bremer presidential
envoy to Iraq
2003 UnderSecDef Feith gave Bremer draft of deBaathification
and disbanding Iraqi
military orders
Feith would later deny he drafted orders
2003 CPA sent draft order to disband Iraqi military and
build a new one to Def Sec
Rumsfeld
2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz in Vanity Fair Bush admin all
agreed on WMD as way to
justify
Iraq war
2004 Think tank estimated that Iraq would could cost $300
bil in ten years when Bush
admin was
pushing low numbers
2004 Report some US officers worried winning militarily in
Iraq but losing support of
Iraqi
public
2008 Government and Sadr signed ceasefire to end Charge of
Knights Allowed ISF
to conduct
arrests and raids in Sadr City
2008 Baghdad Operations Command said they found Iranian
weapons with Mahdi
Army in
capital
2008 ISF arrested Mahdi Army commander in Karbala who was in
charge of special
forces
2009 US said Iran continued to train Iraqi militias but at
lower levels than before
2010 Protests in front of KRG parliament over murder of
journalist Zardasht Osman
2011 Maliki released insulting letter to Allawi
2011 Former Health Minister warned that Iraq had become part
of drug trafficking
networks
between Middle East and Europe
2011 ISI was said to give allegiance to Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri
and promised revenge for
bin Laden’s
death
2012 Report that $5 mil being stolen a month from contract
for Turkish ships to
provide
electricity to Basra
2012 Maliki said Peshmerga should leave Kirkuk while Kurds
criticized PMs visit
to city
2012 Turkey said it would not arrest former Vice Pres
Hashemi who was residing
there after
Interpol notice for him
2013 Pres Barzani said KRG was training Kurds to fight in
Syrian war
2014 Govt claimed 90% of Ramadi cleared of ISIS when
insurgents still occupied large
areas of
city
2015 Tribal fighters began training in Anbar with approval
by PM Abadi
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