This Day In Iraqi History - May 17

1639 Treaty of Zuhab ended Ottoman-Safavid War and gave Ottomans most of Mesopotamia

(Musings On Iraq book review An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)

1920 Huge joint Sunni-Shiite demonstration in Baghdad during Ramadan against British rule

1941 British forces set out from Habaniya base to try to take Fallujah

1941 10 British planes landed at Habaniya air base from Egypt and launched attack on German planes in

Mosul British bombed Baghdad air base Shot down 2 German fighters

1941 German liaison officer with Iraqi govt killed by an Iraqi soldier flying into Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1972 Oil Ministry took hardline with Iraq Petroleum Company in 1^st move towards nationalization

1973 Iraq rejected border agreement with Kuwait saying never ratified by Iraqi constitution

1987 Iraqi fighter hit USS Stark with 2 missiles killing 37 US sailors

(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)

2003 Iraqi Leadership Group of exiles and Iraqis put together by Barzani and Talabani to advise ORHA

head Garner disbanded by Bremer

2003 ORHA head Garner told Bremer he was leaving Iraq Bremer talked Garner into staying for a bit

2003 US-Kurdish agreement allowed 6,000 Peshmerga to be deployed in Diyala Kirkuk Ninewa Salahaddin

beyond Green Line

2003 500 Arabs from Hawija attacked Kurds in Kirkuk City Lasted 36 hrs Were heard shouting Saddam

slogans Protesting Kurds moved into city after war

(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173^rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)

2003 Baghdad Univ faculty held election for new leadership as part of democratiziation move pushed by

US

2003 CIA interviewed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program Mahdi Obeidi who asked for asylum in US

2004 Report Mahdi Army recruiting Baathist security and intel officers in Kirkuk for militia along with

Shiite Arabs and Turkmen

2004 CIA warned that political factionalism in Mosul leading to instability

2004 Zarqawi killed Iraqi Governing Council head Salim with a suicide bomber in Baghdad

2004 Report Sec Def Rumsfeld authorized special interrogation program that helped lead to Abu Ghraib

abuse scandal

2004 Report INC provided defector Adnan Haideri’s stories about Iraq WMD used by US pre-war proved

false Was used in CIA DIA White House reports May 02 labeled fabricator by DIA

2005 Association of Muslim Scholars accused police of being involved in massacres of Sunni civilians

2005 Report Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr tribes in Qaim formed Hamza Forces to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq

Wento to Marines in Fallujah asking for help

2005 Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr criticized US Op Matador in western Anbar for targeting them

when they were fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on Anbar tribes turning on Al Qaeda in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq article on Albu Mahal tribe)

2006 US cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told NSC sectarian violence up in Iraq New Baghdad security plan not

working Casey told Bush Iran providing more EFPs to attack US forces

(Musings On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Sahwa unit in Diyala Another female suicide bomber set off car

bomb against ISF in Diyala

(Musings On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)

2009 Head of parliamentary integrity comm said Trade Min Sudani covered up his brothers’ involvement

in corruption at ministry

2009 Kurdish protest in Shikhan against Hadbaa led Ninewa government

(Musings On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)

2009 Oil Ministry criticized KRG’s independent oil deals

2010 China’s CNOOC and Turkey’s TPAO signed deal to develop Maysan oil field

2010 KRG Natural Resource Min said Kurdish oil exports wouldn’t start until new Iraqi govt formed

2011 Interior Min investigation found IS prison break in Baghdad had inside help

2011 Baghdad Operations Command said most assassinations of ISF personnel were done by militias not

ISI

2011 Pres Barzani said he was ready to talk with opposition parties in KRG parliament about reforms

2012 Asayesh arrested 3 Yazidis for attending govt sponsored conference to intimidate them to stay away

from Baghdad

2012 PM Maliki withdrew no confidence request to parliament against Dep PM Mutlaq to try to stop no

confidence move against himself

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2014 Sheikh Hayes blamed protesters for creating environment for return of insurgency in Anbar

2014 4 Kurdish parties accused PUK of cheating in Sulaymaniya voting

2014 Kurdish parties announced united stance when negotiation to form new Iraqi govt

2015 Anbar council voted to allow Hashd to deploy to province after fall of Ramadi Were already there

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

2015 IS unilaterally began withdrawing from Baiji refinery after Ramadi taken Used fighting in Baiji as

diversion

2015 Intl Org of Migration reported 2.8 mil displaced in Iraq since start of 2014

2016 PUK and Gorran signed power sharing-cooperation deal Gorran would get Sulaymaniya governor

PUK Sulaymaniya city mayor

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