This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 4

1920 Ex-Ottoman officers and Shammar and Jabouri tribes arrived in Tal Afar to fight British and

seize town

1922 Gertrude Bell said King Faisal was indecisive and lacked backbone to stand up to others

(Musings On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)

1924 Anti-British protests in Baghdad closed parliament

1980 Iraq launched air raid upon KDP base in Sardash Iran Tehran objected and two countries began

bombing each other along border

1982 Tariq Aziz went to Moscow seeking military aid for Iran-Iraq War but turned down

1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at Kharg Island

(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)

1992 New Kurdish parliament met first time Jawhar Salim elected speaker Cabinet also announced

1997 UN Resolution 1111 extended Oil For Food Program for 2^nd time since started in 96

2003 Barzani went to Najaf and met Ayatollah Sistani and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to talk about post-war

govt and constitution

2003 Ayatollah Sistani called for an Iraqi parliament to produce a new constitution in opposition to CPA

plan

2003 PM Blair said that he had no doubt that Iraq’s WMD would be found Rejected independent inquiry

into case for Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq Book Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 VP Cheney told Senators to stop asking for investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith said US wasn’t only country that claimed Iraq had WMD so did Clinton

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(Musings On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith denied that Bush admin pressured intelligence agencies over Iraq

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith admitted he created Office of Special Plans within Pentagon to find Iraq-Al

Qaeda connections

2004 George Tenet resigned as director of CIA in part due to failed Iraq intelligence

2004 Pope criticized Bush over Abu Ghraib prison abuse and called for international solution to Iraq

2005 New KRG parliament sworn in

2007 Report Mahdi Army trying to expel Sunnis from Baghdad’s Rasheed Police working with militia

National Police commander in area replaced three times since March

2008 Half of parliament signed letter saying they were against Status of Forces Agreement unless it

included US withdrawal

2008 Police arrested top 5 Mahdi Army commanders in Karbala aftermath Charge of Knights

2010 Gen Odierno US cmdr in Iraq said 34 of ISI’s 42 leaders had been killed or captured

2011 Source in PM Maliki’s office said he was planning on stopping demonstrations in Baghdad and arrest

protest leaders

2011 Kurdish opposition presented reform program to KDP and PUK after Sulaymaniya protests broken up

Nothing came of it

2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq would reach 3 mil/bar/day in oil production by end of 2011 It didn’t

2011 PM Maliki said national unity govt didn’t work and called for majority rule

2012 176 parliamentarians signed no confidence vote against PM Maliki Given to Pres Talabani for

verification Maliki office claimed signatures were collected illegally

2012 Iran called Sadr to talk him out of backing no confidence vote against PM Maliki

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

2012 Shiite Endowment offices in Baghdad bombed 18 dead 125 wounded Bomb at Sunni Endowment

defused but hit by mortar

2012 Inter Min head of explosives Gen Jabiri given 4 yrs in prison on misdemeanor charges for buying

fake bomb detectors

2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq denied it tried to assassinate a Sadrist leader

(Musings On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)

2014 ISIS began attack upon Mosul eventually taking city

2014 ISIS head of Military Council Bilawi killed by Iraqi special forces

2014 Babil police chief press conference with 6 prisoners confessing to car bombing then posted 4 of them

executed on his Facebook hours later

2014 Report State of Law delegation went to Iran and got backing for 3^rd term for PM Maliki

2015 IS held ceremony for Fallujah sheikhs to give it baya

2015 Number of displaced in Iraq reached 3.0 mil

2016 PM Abadi said human rights committee would be formed to investigate abuses of Hashd in Fallujah

op Nothing happened

2017 Hashd freed Baaj west Ninewa Emptied it of civilians and started creating security zone

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