1927 Iraqi cabinet
resolution said Assyrians would be settled in the country
1941 British Arab
Legion left Palestine to take back Fort Rutba, Anbar from Iraqi police
1941 Arab Legion
attacked by German aircraft and one regiment refused to cross Transjordan
border into
Iraq
1941 British Royal
Air Force reported Iraqi air force combat ineffective Lost 25 planes Another
20-30
heavily damaged
1941 Vichy France
agreed to transfer weapons from Syria to Iraq to use its air fields and okayed
landing of German planes
1941 Iraq Def Min
Shawkat went to Turkey for talks Ankara offered end of fighting permission for
UK to
use bases in Iraq In return UK would recognize Gayalani’s govt
1941 Iraq Fin Min
Suwaidi went to Saudi Arabia to explain conflict with England and ask for
mediation Ibn
Saud said Iraq should end war
1941 UK Mideast Cmdr
Gen Wavell said not enough troops to take Baghdad and fight Iraqi and Axis
forces
(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)
1982 Iran announced
it had reached pre-war border with Iraq Iran-Iraq War
1982 Saddam ordered retreating Iraqi foces to rally in
Khorramshahr dubbing it a Stalingrad
1988 138 Kurdish
villages in southern and central Sulaymaniya abandoned due to Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 Saddam claimed
Iraq could build high tech capacitors for use in nuclear triggers
2002 UK For Sec
Straw told Sec State Powell if Bush decided on military action against Iraq
Blair would
back him
2003 Sec State
Powell said US and UK would go to UN to authorize occupation of Iraq
2003 Sec Def
Rumsfeld told staff rebuilding Iraq would not be fast or easy and needed time
2003 UK parliament
announced review of pre-war intelligence on Iraq
2003 ORHA met with
ex-Iraqi army officers 2nd time Said they could bring back 137,000
soldiers
2003 Def Min memo
called for Iraqi soldiers to return to duty and cooperate with ORHA
2004 Bush said US
goal was to build a free and peaceful Iraq that was not a threat to its
neighbors
2004 Sec Def
Rumsfeld told Congress that Iraqi victims of Abu Ghraib prison abuse should be
compensated
2004 Pentagon est by
end of 2005 Iraq war would cost US $150 bil 3 times higher than White House
prediction before war
2004 Mahdi Army
fought with British troops in downtown Basra
2004 US forces moved
into Karbala and Amarah setting off clashes with Mahdi Army US forces seized a
govt complex in Najaf fighting Mahdi Army
2005 Battle of Qaim
began
2009 Gov Nujafi
stopped by Peshmerga from going to hot air balloon festival in Bashiqa Part of
Kurd-
Hadbaa List dispute
2009 KRG said they
would start exporting oil from Taq Taq and Tawke fields after Oil Min okayed
connecting them to Turkish pipeline Oil Min said it wouldn’t pay oil
companies however
2010 Pres Barzani
set up investigation into murder of journalist Zardasht Osman KDP was accused
of
involvement
2011 Anbar
councilman complained that ISF continued arrest of former ISF members after PM Maliki
promised to end them
2011 ISI members
staged a prison revolt in Baghdad killing 6 police and 11 prisoners
2012 PM Maliki held
cabinet meeting in Kirkuk to highlight problems between Arabs and Kurds
2012 Allawi said PM Maliki
was becoming an autocrat
2013 Iraqiya said PM
Maliki was allowing militias to operate in country
2014 US restarted
training for Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service in Jordan
2014 Anbar council
again denied stories that ISF launched operation to free Fallujah
2015 IS broke out 30
prisoners from facility in Diyala posing as inspectors
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