This Day In Iraqi History - Jul 10

1924 First elections held in Iraq Was for Constituent Assembly

1940 England decided to send Indian Div to Basra after PM Gaylani wanted to block

            British troops moving through Iraq as part of Anglo-Iraq Treaty

1940 UK Cmdr in Middle East Gen Wavell thought sending British troops to Iraq would

            destabilize region so Indian Div sent to Egypt instead

1967 General Tahir Yahya became premier 2^nd time Was later charged with corruption

1978 Former Prime Minister Naif died from gunshot wounds from assassination attempt

            by Iraqi agents in London

1978 England would expel Iraqi diplomats and intel officers for Naif assassination Iraq

retaliated by expelling British diplomats arresting British businessmen Embargo on UK

1988 Iraq recaptured 14 mountain peaks in Panjwin area of Kurdistan

1990 Gulf OPEC members met and agreed to follow quotas which Iraq had been

            demanding

1991 UN set up camps at Lake Hammar to take in displaced from southern marshes

            but govt did not allow people to enter

2002 Pentagon Defense Policy Board met over Iraq invasion plans Angry

            military not thinking innovatively Wanted generals fired

2003 Iraqi police demonstration in Baghdad saying US forces in city led to attacks

            upon police

2003 Powell told ABC that captured trailers were Iraqi mobile WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2008 2 Sadrist politicians and an Iraqi army officers said Hezbollah ran two training

camps in Basra since 2006 Up to 10 Hezbollah operatives trained Special Groups there Closed during Charge of Knights

2008 Sadrist politicians and army officer said Hezbollah involved in Jan 07 Asaib Ahl

Al-Haq raid on Karbala that killed US soldiers and involved in AAH kidnapping of 5 Britons from Finance Min in Baghdad May 07

(Musings On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)

2012 During visit to Irbil Pres Barzani tried to get Syria’s Kurdish National Council

            and Democratic Union Party to unite and not align with PKK

2017 PM Abadi declared Mosul freed after 9 month long campaign Heavy fighting

            continued in city

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Ret. Col Witty on the Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Horizon Client Access’ Alex Mello on Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera on Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with International Center for Study of Radicalization’s Charlie Winter on how IS media dealt with its defeat in Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with BBC’s Quentin Sommerville on the Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Niqash’s Mustafa Habib on Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Reuters’ Stephen Kalin on Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with AFP’s Ahmad Mousa on Battle of Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Florian Neuhof on Battle of Mosul)

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