1920 British defeated tribal
fighters at Battle of Ahrdiyat
1921 Royal Iraqi Military College opened
1988 Iraq used poison gas against Kurdish villages
1988 Iraq took Dehloran Iran 20,000 Iranian casualties 6000
captured
1991 UN complained Baghdad blocking it from helping
displaced in southern marshes
1991 Demonstration in Kurdistan over food shortages led to
police firing into crowd
Led to 2
days of fighting with 100 killed
2002 MI6 head Dearlove said US already decided on military
action to remove Saddam
talk was
now about how and when
2002 Gen Franks briefed Bush on Running Start war plan Would
have enough forces
in theater
for 100,000 to start operations
2003 On defensive over not finding WMD White House released
parts of 02 National
Intel Est
that Iraq was rebuilding its WMD and nuke programs
2003 US began asking UN for help in Iraq after it spurned
its role immediately before
and after
invasion
2004 Carnegie pre-2002 US intel on Iraq WMD generally good
02-03 reporting became
more certain beyond evidence Bush
admin misrepresented threat posed by Iraq WMD and nuke program UN inspectors proved
accurate that Iraq didn’t have WMD or nuke programs nor stocks
2005 US complained to Iran about supplying EFPs to militias
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of
Arkenstone blog on on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2005 2 Sunni members of constitutional committee Issa and
Obeidi were assassinated
Sunni
delegation suspended work afterward
2005 Iraq-Iran signed deal for Iraq to export 150,000
bar/day of oil to Iranian refinery
in Abadan
and send refined products back to Iraq
2006 Report Iraqi govt told civilians in Baghdad to check
IDs of ISF to make sure they
were real
not death squads or insurgents
2006 NSC memo Maliki govt struggling to implement policy and
deal with security
Said Interior Min making violence
worse Called for review of US Iraq strategy Suggested troop increase might be
necessary
2008 Gen Petraeus said Al Qaeda was changing focus from Iraq
to Afghanistan
(Musings
On Iraq article on decline of insurgency)
2017 Salahaddin Gov Jabouri arrested over corruption charges
View the Iraq History Timelines
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