1922 Turkish troops testing border with Iraq attacked Rania
in Sulaymaniya
1987 Iraq attacked 2 Iranian merchant ships 40 ships hit by
both Iran and Iraq in next 2
weeks
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1988 Bazi Gorge in Kurdistan attacked by Iraqi forces with
chemical weapons
killing
around 3,000 Kurds during Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1996 Iraqi National Accord discovered impending Iraqi attack
on Kurdistan and KDP
had made
deal with Saddam
2002 Bush signed Iraq: Goals, Objectives, Strategy that said
US would use all means to
remove
Saddam
2002 Bush and Blair talked about tough UN resolution on Iraq
disarmament and how
Saddam
wouldn't comply leading to conflict
2002 Cheney spoke at Veterans of Korea War about Iraq threat
Said Iraqis would
welcome US
invasion with joy
2002 UK Foreign Office paper said rebuilding Iraq would be a
long and costly affair
2002 IAEA spokesman in London Times no evidence Iraq
rebuilding nuclear facilities
Would be
easy to find by spy satellites
2002 Chirac said France opposed unilateral and pre-emptive
action by U.S. against Iraq
2003 SCIRI head Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim killed in Najaf Imam
Ali shrine car bombing
by Zarqawi 125 killed 500 wounded Bomb
driven by Yassin Jarrad father of Zarqawi’s second wife
2007 Sadr announced freeze of Mahdi Army after fighting with
Badr in Karbala
2007 Petraeus wrote about Anbar Awakening and Sahwa and how they
improved
security in
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sahwa)
2008 PM Maliki in confrontation with KRG warned that if
Peshmerga operated outside
of Kurdistan
they would be breaking the law
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki dispute with Kurds over disputed areas)
2017 Anbar council elected Halbusi new governor after
finally dismissing Governor
Rawi on
corruption after 3 tries
2017 Kirkuk council voted to be included in Kurdistan
independence referendum
Condemned
by Arab and Turkmen politicians
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