1921 Churchill asked Colonial Office if King Faisal was
Sunni or Shiite
and who
were the religious people in Karbala
1980 Mossad assassinated Egyptian nuclear scientist Yahya El
Mashad in Paris
who worked
on Iraq’s nuclear program
1985 Iraq halted air raids for 2 wks on Iran calling on Iranians
to push Khomeini
towards
peace Ended 2nd War of Cities
1985 From Mar to Jun 1985 43 Iraqi air raids on Tehran Only
12 Iranian SCUDs
hit Baghdad in response Iraq caused
little damage in war of cities and failed to push Iran towards peace talks
1991 More than 1,000 Kurds protested outside US camp in
Dohuk asking for them to
stay to
protect them from Iraqi govt
1998 2nd day of meetings between UN inspectors
and Iraq Agreed on inspection regime
Inspectors demanded that Iraq come
clean on concealment program which angered Aziz
1998 Aziz thought UN inspectors working with US to move goal
posts every time there
was
progress to drag out process
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2001 CIA report aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were
probably for centrifuges for
nuke
program but could be rockets Still no justification for claim
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Gen Petraeus flew to Baghdad telling CPA disbanding
Iraq military threatened
US troops
2003 1300 US troops conducted major search and raids in
Fallujah
2004 Cheney said Saddam had long standing ties with Al Qaeda
2004 Reports US soldiers and interrogators began warning of
abuses at Abu Ghraib
prison in
Nov and Dec 03
2005 Massoud Barzani sworn in as KRG president
2006 Maliki said Sadr City and Shiite areas off limits to US
forces
2006 Maliki announced Op Together Forward to try to secure
Baghdad and stop
sectarian
attacks Failed
2006 After returning from Iraq Bush said inspired by meeting
Maliki and US was
staying the
course
2006 Rumsfeld aide brought up Biden-Gelb idea of breaking up
Iraq as possible exit
strategy
for U.S.
2007 US Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Baquba Pushed
insurgents out of city with
help of
1920 Revolution Brigade
2008 Sadrist said they wouldnt run as a party in 2009
provincial elections just support
candidates
2008 US Inspector General went to Kahn Bani Saad prison
found no work being
done Most
of $1.2 mil in materials gone
2010 New parliament seated 3 months after elections Only met
for 18 minutes Was
supposed to start work on electing
new president but didn’t Maliki adjourned session indefinitely to stall for
time
2011 ISI attacked Diyala provincial council building in
Baquba
2011 Maliki said he wanted to reduce the number of ministries
in response to protests
2012 Gorran and PUK held meeting to try to reconcile Didn’t
work
2012 Gov Nujafi reversed course and said that he now
supported Kurdish oil deal with
Exxon
2012 Sadr returned from Iran said still for no confidence
vote against Maliki but
thanked him
for cabinet meetings in provinces
2013 ISF security sweep through western Anbar along Syrian
and Jordanian border
2014 Ayatollah Sistani issued clarification that his fatwa
to defend country was for men
to join the
ISF not militias
2014 Insurgents seized Jalawla, Diyala
2014 12 imams in Mosul executed by ISIS for not giving it
baya
2014 128 bodies of soldiers and police executed by ISIS in
Mosul recovered
2014 Report differences emerging between ISIS and
Naqshibandi over control of Mosul
2014 Ishaqi and Mutasim Salahaddin recaptured by ISF 1st
victories vs insurgents after
sweep
through north
2014 ISF and tribes forced insurgents out of Dhuluiya,
Salahaddin
2014 ISF and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq pushed insurgents out of
Muqtadiya, Diyala
2014 ISF withdrew from Rawa and Ana giving Anbar border to
ISIS Fighting in Hit
Habaniya
Ramadi
2014 ISF started op to try to retake Saqlawiya, Anbar
2014 Report Peshmerga told remaining ISF in Kirkuk city to
leave
2014 Sadr called for military parades by his militia in all
the provinces to show their
strength in
face of insurgents
2014 1500 Iranian troops in Khanaqin district Diyala and 500
in Wasit to secure
Iran-Iraq
border areas
2014 1st Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps member
killed in fighting in Iraq
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