1923 35 clerics and religious students left Iraq for Persia
to protest deportation of
Mujtahid
Khalisi for opposition activities
1946 Oil workers in Kirkuk led by Communists held meetings
about their work
conditions
Led to strike
1963 Communist uprising at Rasheed military camp in Baghdad
against Baathists
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
1986 Iranian forces recaptured Mehran, Iran from Iraqis
2001 UN Res 1360 renewed Oil for Food program
2003 38,000 police came back to duty after Bremer threatened
to fire them for
not working
after invasion
2003 Ex CIA official said White House pushed hard on CIA to find
Iraq-Al Qaeda
connections
but didn't find any
2004 3 US military review of 2003 invasion found that
logistics were lacking and
military
intelligence was largely useless
2010 VP Biden made surprise visit to Iraq to try to help
form new govt after elections
2011 MP said $1 mil fraud case for ISF buying dogs that
couldn’t detect bombs used
at
checkpoints Nothing happened
2011 ISF launched op in Maysan to block Iranian weapons
flowing into Iraq as result
of
increased militia attacks on US forces
2011 Protest in Nasiriya for turning Dhi Qar into autonomous
region
2012 Parliament passed $9 bil supplemental budget fueled by
high oil prices
2012 Iranian delegation arrived in Iraq to try to improve
relations between Maliki
and Sadr
2014 ISF claimed parts of Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil cleared Was
still under IS control
2014 Khalidiya, Anbar cleared by ISF
2014 Report over 2,500 IS cells operating in Baghdad
province
2014 Pres Barzani called on KRG parliament to create
commission to create referendum
on KRG
independence
2016 Karrada Baghdad car bomb set off fire in mall killing
324 wounding 200
2016 PM Abadi ordered withdrawal of fake bomb detectors at
checkpoints in Baghdad
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