1920 Sherifan Army of Liberation arrived in Tal Afar to
fight British and seize
town 1920
Revolt
1922 Gertrude Bell said King Faisal was indecisive and
lacked backbone to stand
up to
others
1924 Anti-British protests in Baghdad closed parliament
1982 Tariq Aziz went to Moscow seeking military aid for
Iran-Iraq War but turned
down
1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at
Kharg Island
1992 New Kurdish parliament met first time Jawhar Salim
elected speaker Cabinet
also
announced
1997 UN Resolution 1111 extended Oil For Food Program for 2nd
time since
started in
96
2003 Barzani went to Najaf and met Ayatollah Sistani and
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to talk
about post-war
govt and constitution
2003 Ayatollah Sistani called for an Iraqi parliament to
produce a new constitution in
opposition
to CPA plan
2003 Blair said that he had no doubt that Iraq’s WMD would
be found Rejected
independent
inquiry into case for Iraq War
2003 Cheney told Senators to stop asking for investigation
into pre-war
intelligence
on Iraq
2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith said US wasn’t only country that claimed
Iraq had WMD
and so did
Clinton admin
2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith denied that Bush admin pressured
intelligence agencies
over Iraq
2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith admitted he created Office of
Special Plans within
Pentagon to
find Iraq-Al Qaeda connections
2004 George Tenet resigned as director of CIA in part due to
failed Iraq intelligence
2004 Pope criticized Bush over Abu Ghraib prison abuse and
called for international
solution to
Iraq
2005 New KRG parliament sworn in
2008 Half of parliament signed letter saying they were
against Status of Forces
Agreement
unless it included US withdrawal
2008 Police arrested top 5 Mahdi Army commanders in Karbala
aftermath Charge of
Knights
2010 Gen Odierno US cmdr in Iraq said 34 of ISI’s 42 leaders
had been killed or
captured
2011 Source in Maliki’s office said he was planning on
stopping demonstrations
in Baghdad
and arrest protest leaders
2011 Kurdish opposition presented reform program to KDP and
PUK after Sulaymaniya
protests
broken up Nothing came of it
2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq would reach 3 mil/bar/day
in oil production by
end of 2011
2011 Maliki said national unity govt didn’t work and called
for majority rule
2012 176 parliamentarians signed no confidence vote against
Maliki and given to
Pres Talabani for verification Maliki
office claimed signatures were collected illegally
2012 Sadr called to Iran to talk him out of backing no
confidence vote against Maliki
2012 Shiite Endowment offices in Baghdad bombed 18 dead 125
wounded Bomb
at Sunni
Endowment defused but hit by mortar
2012 Inter Min head of explosives Gen Jabiri given 4 yrs in
prison on misdemeanor
charges for buying fake bomb
detectors
2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq denied it tried to assassinate a
Sadrist leader
2014 ISIS began attack upon Mosul eventually taking city
2014 ISIS head of Military Council Bilawi killed by Iraqi
special forces
2014 Babil police chief press conference with 6 prisoners
confessing to car bombing
then posted
4 of them executed on his Facebook hours later
2014 Report State of Law delegation went to Iran and got
backing for 3rd term for Maliki
2015 IS held ceremony for Fallujah sheikhs to give it baya
2015 Number of displaced in Iraq reached 3.0 mil
2016 Abadi said human rights committee would be formed to investigate
abuses of
Hashd in
Fallujah op Nothing happened
2017 Hashd freed Baaj west Ninewa Emptied it of civilians
and started creating security
zone
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