This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 1

1920 All but 1 policeman abandoned his job in Suq al-Shuyuk during 1920

            Revolt Forced British to withdraw from town

(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

1922 UK Colonial Secretary Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George UK position in Iraq

tenuous Wrote Iraqi officials fouling up some provinces Iraq likely to face another budget deficit Differences with US meant Iraq oil not developed Said British had to keep troops in Mosul due to threat from Turkey Argued that England should withdraw from Iraq because too costly

(Musings On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq)

1954 PM Said started crackdown on opposition Withdrew nationality from Communists

            Allowed prosecution of Communist supporters Limited rights of political parties

1970 Iraq said it supported Palestinians when Jordanian govt attacked them

1986 Iranian Revolutionary Guard frogmen captured Umaya oil platform in Basra

(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)

1996 KDP and Iraqi Republican Guard captured Irbil from PUK Iraqi and KDP intel

            rounded up opponents including PUK SCIRI INC members Executed 200

2001 Mullah Krekar founded Jund al-Islam that would become Ansar al-Islam in

            Sulaymaniya province

2002 Fmr Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said that he was scared that Richard

Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were arguing that Iraq invasion would be asy Said he was scared that U.S. would get bogged down in Iraq because hadn’t planned for it well

2003 Saddam tape played on 2 TV channels Said he was not responsible for Zarqawi car

            bomb in Najaf that killed Ayatollah Hakim

2003 1^st post-Saddam cabinet appointed by Iraqi Governing Council

2004 Mass grave discovered Hatra with hundreds of Kurdish bodies killed during

            Anfal in 1980s

(Musings On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)

2005 Operation Restoring Rights started to clear Tal Afar

2006 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told Iraq Survey Group insurgency had to be destroyed

            but militias legitimate because political

2006 Report Sunnis and Shiites fighting over north and south entrances to Baghdad in

            Sadr City Dora and Sadiya

2008 Security in Anbar turned over to Iraqi forces Was 11^th of 18^th provinces to come

            under Baghdad’s control

(Musings On Iraq article on Anbar handover)

2014 ISF recaptured Suleiman Beq, Salahaddin

2014 German cabinet voted to arm the Peshmerga

2014 Yazidi villages of Kotan, Hareko Kharag Shafrsky in Ninewa were burned by IS

2015 Hashd leader Muhandis and Badr head Amiri visited Chief Justice Medhat saying

            they fully supported him

2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Khazali said merging Kirkuk with Kurdistan was dangerous

            and threatened to use force to stop it

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