1916 Hussein Ibn Ali sheriff of Mecca declared Arab revolt
against Ottomans
backed by British Many Iraqi
Ottoman officers joined
1924 UK High Commissioner for Iraq Sir Percy Cox set June 10
as deadline for Iraq
parliament
to pass Anglo-Iraq Treaty but failed to do so
1924 UK Commissioner Cox got Iraqi MPs taken from their
homes and forced them to
approve
Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1940 Italy declared war on Allies England asked Iraq to break
relations with Rome as
a result
1941 British air force destroyed train shipment of German
military aid heading for
Iraq from
Syria Anglo-Iraq War already over
1954 Police fired on demonstrators in Baghdad organized by
opposition parties
1963 Arif govt launched offensive against KDP
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1979 Saddam gave Pres Bakr list of notables to be executed
including army officers
Bakr said no Put under house arrest
Saddam would use incident to push Bakr out of office
1982 Saddam announced unilateral ceasefire in war Claimed
Iraq achieved all its goals
Rejected by Iran Demanded Saddam
step down 100,000 Shiite exiles return to Iraq Saudis offered to pay $50 bil
for reconstruction in Iran Tehran asked for $150 bil from Saudis
1982 Soviet Union renewed military supplies to Iraq which it
had stopped when Iran
Iraq War
started
(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 Bush told cabinet he was convinced Iraq had WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Bush said invading Iraq was right decision because of
its WMD programs
2003 Rumsfeld said he was confident Iraq’s WMD would be
found
2003 State Dept memo said Italian docs claiming Iraq-Niger
uranium deal were
forgeries
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 CIA hired fmr UN inspector David Kay to take over new
Iraq Survey Group to
hunt for
Iraq’s WMD
2003 Head UN inspector Blix accused Pentagon of trying to undermine
him during
inspections
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
2003 Report Al Qaeda’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed captured by US
said that Al Qaeda
did not
work with Iraq
2004 US gave up hope that NATO forces would be sent to help
in Iraq
2005 Gen Petraeus told Inter Min Jabr about abuses of Wolf
Brigade full of Badr militia Jabr denied
any wrong doing
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2005 Police commander kidnapped 11 Sunnis from Adhamiya
Bodies found 2 days
later in
Sadr City
2006 Insurgents killed 60 police recruits in Ramadi U.S.
forces cordoned off city and
1500
reinforcements sent
2008 Dhi Qar police started operation to raid and arrest
Sadrists
2009 Def Min Obeidi said he wanted US forces to stay in Iraq
for the next 5 years
2009 Mass grave with 500 Kurds killed by Saddam found in Basra
2009 26 killed in car bombing in Nasiriyah
2009 Oil Ministry said it would not pay oil companies
working in KRG
2010 State of Law merged back with other Shiite parties
after elections in National
Coalition
giving them 159 seats
2010 Protests in Baghdad Babil Qadisiyah Nasiriya Najaf
Kirkuk Karbala Ninewa
Basra
Chanted against Maliki and for better services
2011 Pro-Maliki tribesmen attacked protesters in Baghdad
Burned images of Allawi
2011 Allawi attacked Maliki calling him a liar hypocrite and
agent of Iran
2012 List of MPs for no confidence vote against Maliki was
down to 160 Then 157
2012 Pres Talabani rejected no confidence letter against
Maliki claiming not enough
MPs
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2013 5 car bombs in Mosul area
2013 Maliki visited Irbil for first time in 2 yrs to try to
resolve disputes with Kurds
2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of
staff fled Mosul to
KRG causing
general desertion
(Musings
On Iraq article on IS attacks upon ISF that set stage for fall of Mosul)
(Musings
On Iraq article on start of ISIS attack upon Mosul)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mosul’s fall)
(Musings
On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)
2014 ISIS took Mosul after 6 days of fighting Gov Nujafi
fled to Dohuk 500,000
began
fleeing city
2014 Defense Ministry said it was sending Golden Division to
retake Mosul Never
arrived
2014 PM Maliki declared that government would retake Mosul
in 24 hrs
2014 PM Maliki asked US for military aid to fight ISIS
Maliki claimed US didn’t help
until August
but US started sending supplies next day
2014 ISIS set up checkpoints around Mosul to arrest and
execute members of ISF and
Jabour tribe
2014 ISIS took Badush prison Ninewa and started executing
670 Shiite prisoners over
next few
days
2014 ISIS seized Shirqat, Suleiman Beq and Baiji weapons
depot without a fight
Started
attacks outside of Tikrit Salahaddin
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Northern Front Stalemate In Salahaddin)
2014 When word that Mosul fell ISF began deserting in Tikrit
and Baiji
2014 ISIS attacked Abu Ghraib district Baghdad
2014 Def Min told retreating troops from Ninewa Salahaddin
Kirkuk to rally in Taji,
Baghdad
2014 Peshmerga moved into Kirkuk city and Tuz Kharmato in
Salahaddin Khanaqin
dist in
Diyala after ISF began retreating Lost most of Khanaqin to insurgents
2014 PM Maliki called for militias to help fight insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq Iran And Its Shiite Militias Mobilize In Iraq Interview With
Phillip Smyth)
2014 Iranian Revolutionary Guard said to be mobilizing and
entering Iraq to aid govt
(Musings
On Iraq Continued Collapse Of Iraqi Security Forces And Fighting In Baghdad
Leads to Militia Mobilization And Arrival Of Iran)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said US forces in Iraq were continuation
of occupation
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2016 Sadrist mobs attacked Dawa SIIC Reform Movement Badr
offices in Basra
Maysan
Wasit Dhi Qar Najaf Karbala Muthanna
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