1909 Riots in Mosul killed Sheikh Said Sufi leader in
Sulaymaniya Led his followers to revolt
cutting off trade in northern Mosul
province
1916 Start of Battle of Sheikh Saad as British forces moved
up the Tigris and encountered the
Ottoman defenses
1921 Govt issued order to form Iraqi General Staff Nuri
al-Said became Chief of Staff 1st unit of Iraqi
army formed
1942 Court sentenced fmr PM Gaylani and 3 Golden Square colonels
to death in absentia
(Musings
On Iraq book review Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
1948 College students went on strike in Baghdad after police
broke up protest on Jan 4 over Anglo-
Iraq Treaty
1949 Student strikes starte at College of Medicine
Pharmaceutical College Law College in Bagdhad
while protests started in Hillah
Najaf Basra Kirkuk Sulaymaniya Communists played leading role
1949 Nuri al-Said became PM for 5th time Told
parliament his main job was dealing with
Communists
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star
Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1981 Iranian Op Hoveyzeh led to largest tank battle since
1973 Arab-Israeli War Iran lost an entire
tank brigade
1981 Iranian brigade overran Iraqi defense in Geilan Zarb
Captured 450 Iraqi soldiers in central front
1986 Iraq started operation to try to retake Majnoon Island
from Iranians
1987 Saddam called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected
by Iran
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq
War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1990 Jabouri tribe attempted to assassinate Saddam during
military parade
1993 US Russia France England agreed to enforce UN
Resolution 688 that condemned Iraq’s
repression of its population
2003 Saddam said he was ready for war Accused UN inspectors
of being spies
2003 IAEA asked State Dept for info about Iraq-Niger uranium
deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 IAEA head El Baradei no evidence of any suspicious Iraq
nuclear activities
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Bush met with cabinet and said needed strong case vs
Iraq for war
2003 Report 100 US Special Forces and 50 CIA officers had
been sent into Iraq end of 2002 along
with Australian Jordanian British
commandos to find targets for invasion
2004 2 Frenchmen shot and killed in Fallujah after car broke
down
2015 4 bodies found in Albu Bahani, Babil believed to have
been kidnapped and executed by Hashd
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