1933 French deported 600 Assyrians who fled to Syria in July
back to Ninewa
Assyrians
then clashed with Iraqi army and were driven back to Syria
1963 Govt troops captured Barzan and Mazna in offensive
against KDP in Kurdistan
1970 Saddam visited Soviet Union and asked for debt relief Also
for Moscow to stop
aiding
Kurds Soviets agreed
1986 VP Bush used Egyptian Pres Mubarak to pass message to
Iraq that it should
expand air
campaign against Iran
(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)
1990 Bush met Kuwait emir Sabah and said US would free
Kuwait and return emir
to power
1990 Joint statement by US and Soviet Union condemned Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait
and called
for withdrawal
1990 European Community imposed sanctions on Iraq for
invasion of Kuwait
1990 Iraq announced Provisional Government of Free Kuwait
1990 King Hussein said Saddam was a patriot and wanted good
Jordan-Iraq relations
1990 White House went over military plans in response to
Kuwait invasion Included
200,000-250,000
troops deploying to Saudi Arabia
1990 Bush said goal of deploying US forces to Persian Gulf
was to protect Saudi
Arabia
1990 Mukhabarat agents flown into Kuwait to run internal
security
1991 Baath ordered property in Kirkuk to be given to Arabs
and building over 2700
new homes
for them
1992 Iraqi army shelled Kurdish positions in Kirkuk
1998 Saddam ended cooperation with UN inspectors Kept
monitoring system in tact
Saddam demanded inspectors reflect
rotating membership of Security Council and offices be moved to Geneva or
Vienna and out of NY to not be influenced by US
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 UnderSecDefArmsControl Bolton told BBC US didn’t care
whether new UN
inspections
happened because goal was regime change in Iraq
2002 Fmr National Sec Adv Brent Scowcroft came out against
invading Iraq
2003 US reopened Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad
2004 Mahdi Army shot down US helicopter in Sadr City Police
chief there led
celebration
for its downing
2005 Report large shipment of EFPs captured in northern Iraq
coming from Iran
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of
Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2006 Rice said US making progress Iraq strategy not failing
US had to stay the course
Privately
Rice thought strategy failing
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2008 Flyers posted in Baghdad’s Dora warning Shiite families
not to return to district Up
to 50%
Shiite families had been driven out during civil war
(Musings
On Iraq article on anti-Shiite flyers in Baghdad’s Dora)
2015 Protests in Sulaymaniya province over lack of services
that led to clash with
police Over 30 wounded
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