1915 Battle of Salman Pak ended British lost and withdrew to
Kut Ottomans had 9500
casualties British 4500
1921 Churchill memo said when King Feisal could pay for his
own govt he could decide the future
of Iraq Until then UK was footing
the bill
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq)
1952 Soldiers opened fire on protests against Regent of Iraq
killing 18 and wounding 84 during
Intifada
1967 Iraq signed deal with France ERAP to develop North
Rumaila oil field
1968 7th Baath Party Congress Izzat Mustafa
ousted from Revolutionary Command Council One of
Saddam’s main rivals
1988 Iran and Iraq began prisoner exchange from Iran-Iraq
War
1994 Barzani and Talabani signed ceasefire to end KDP-PUK
civil war
1997 KDP declared unilateral ceasefire in KDP-PUK civil war
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The
Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of
Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1998 UN Res 1210 renewed Oil for Food program for another 6
months
2000 UK Foreign Office report Arab countries no longer
supported sanctions on Iraq
2003 US jailers used dogs to intimidate Iraqi prisoners at Abu
Ghraib
2003 Prison riot at Abu Ghraib 9 prisoners killed 9 American
guards injured
2003 Weekly Standard published UnderSecDef Feith’s Iraq-Al
Qaeda briefing claiming two had over
50 meetings since 1990s
2003 Pentagon released statement that Feith’s Iraq-Al Qaeda
work was based upon raw intel and not
analysis of relationship between
them
2003 CIA sent Feith list of problems with his Iraq-Al Qaeda
work Said claim Zarqawi given
safehaven by Saddam was disputed
2003 Report Iran brought Hezbollah into Iraq to help it
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2004 Powell told Bush not enough US troops in Iraq to secure
country
2004 Report US portrayed Zarqawi and foreigners leading
Battle of Fallujah but leaders were local
Iraqis
2006 Militias carried out retaliatory attacks upon Sunnis in
Hurriya Ghaziliya Baquba Kirkuk for 6
car bombs the day before in Sadr
City that killed 215 5 mosques in Hurriya burned another shot at another
declared a Shiite husseiniya by Mahdi Army Total 19 killed 29 wounded Militias
expelled Sunni families from Hurriya and threatened 90 more families to leave
2006 After funeral processions for those killed Nov 24 in 6
car bombs Sadrist imams blamed US for
insecurity and demanded US
withdrawal from Iraq Sadrists threatened to walk out of parliament and cabinet
if PM Maliki met with Pres Bush in Jordan
2006 Sunni imams in Ghaziliya Amiriya Adhamiya called on
followers to protect neighborhoods and
attack Mahdi Army and police if
they entered
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