1914 Germany and Britain asked Ottomans for oil concessions
in Mosul and
Baghdad
provinces
1937 Pan-Arab military officers withdrew their support for
head of army Gen Bakr Sidqi
1981 UN Resolution 487 condemned Israel’s destruction of
Iraq’s Osirak
nuclear
reactor
1988 Iraq captured Mehran Iran then handed it over to
Mujahedeen e-Khalq’s National
Liberation
Army
1996 UN and Iraq began talks on allowing UN inspectors
access to sensitive sites
1996 Dep PM Aziz told UN inspectors they got most of their
intel from US and UK
that were
trying to remove Saddam
1996 Dep PM Aziz told UN inspectors they made sensitive
visits to provoke a crisis
at behest
of US and UK
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
1998 UN Res 1175 increased Iraq’s oil export quota to $5.3
bil under Oil For Food
program
Allowed importation of equipment to maintain oil industry
2002 US told UK that it was ready for its input on military
planning against Iraq
2002 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plans
2003 Rumsfeld said that US only fighting small groups of
dead enders in Iraq Tried to
compare insurgency in Baghdad to
murder rate in Wash DC to say it wasn’t bad
2003 Wolfowitz told Congress insurgents were “last remains
of a dying cause”
2003 US forces found an old buried centrifuge Claimed proof
that Iraq had a nuclear
weapons
program
2003 US denied that captured Iraqi trailers were anything
but mobile weapons labs
Inspections
showed they werent
2003 White House acknowledged that State Dep intel
questioned whether captured
trailers were
WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 New Republic on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said Cheney got
docs on deal from
UK Asked
for more info leading to trip to Niger Docs did not come from British
2003 New Republic article used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed
source who said White
House knew
Niger story was a lie
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2006 Bodies of 2 US soldiers kidnapped by Mujahedeen Shura
Council in Baghdad
found
2008 ISF launched Op Promise of Peace against Sadrists in
Maysan
(Musings
On Iraq article on Op Promise of Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sadr’s strategy)
2009 speaker of KRG parliament said KDP and PUK taking $30
mil of KRG budget
for
themselves
2009 2 British guards kidnapped and killed by Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq returned to British
embassy In
return AAH members released from prison
2010 Protest in Basra over power shortages 1 demonstrator
killed by police
2010 Sahwa leader in Diyala warned that ISI using carrot and
stick against sahwa
members in
attempted comeback in province
2011 Def Sec Gates blamed Iran for giving weapons to Special
Groups who were
attacking
US forces before withdrawal
2011 1st Iraqi army unit received artillery from
US
2011 Maliki govt accused Communist party and civil groups
for protests in Baghdad
2011 2 killed in electricity protests in Basra
2012 Report Iran trying to stop no confidence vote against
Maliki
2012 Maliki said Exxon deal with KRG could lead to break up
of Iraq Baghdad asked
US for help
to stop deal
2012 Maliki’s media adv said Baghdad would stop any
KRG-Exxon oil deal that
involved disputed areas
2013 Pres Barzani sent draft constitution back to KRG
parliament for discussion
and passage
2013 Iraqi army claimed it was responsible for split between
ISIS and Al Nusra in
Syria
because it controlled Iraq-Syria border
2013 Iraqiya Diyala-Sadr list formed new govt in Diyala
shutting out State of Law
2013 State of Law held protests against new govt in Diyala
Militias blocked roads
around
Baquba
2013 State of Law and local lists alliance formed new govt
in Karbala Sadrists and
SIIC shut
out
2013 State of Law won head of council in Karbala Sadrists
boycotted session
2013 All 12 provinces that had elections formed new govts
2014 Maliki ordered govt to pay salaries and benefits to
Hashd
2014 State Dept’s McGurk denied US was pushing for removal
of Maliki
2014 ISIS set up 8 courts in Mosul to run city Was pushing
out other insurgent
groups that
helped take city
2014 Sadr offices announced taking volunteers for new Peace
Brigades to
fight
insurgency
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