1933 Iraqi army held victory parade and given award by
Prince Ghazi for massacring Assyrians in
north Total 60 villages looted and
destroyed Around 600 killed
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of
the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review State and Society
in Iraq)
1982 Iraq fired 27
SCUD missiles at Kharg Island Iran’s major oil port with little to no effect
(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)
1990 Saddam said foreign workers and visitors could not
leave Iraq after Kuwait invasion
1990 UN Resolution 664 demanded Iraq release foreign
nationals it held
2003 Bremer told Rumsfeld gave order not to arrest Sadr to
try to avoid further violence
2003 General Robert Fry Deputy Chief of UK Defense Staff
said that Iraqis had grown tired of Coalition
Said Shiite leaders warned that
people could start turning on Coalition Said rebuilding ISF political
development and providing services in southern Iraq was stalled
2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay testified to Congress Blamed
Rice and NSC for not checking WMD intel
before war
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 Police report listed 18 Sunnis arrested in Baghdad 6
weeks later their bodies found along Iranian
border Showed torture
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2005 Anbar governor and other Sunni leaders fired upon in
Ramadi during meeting over constitutional
referendum
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Governor Alwani)
2006 Report 2 Iraqi army divisions in Anbar short 5,000
troops Soldiers not getting paid Defense Min could
not supply them
2009 ISI set off 3 car bombs in Baghdad hitting Finance and
Foreign Ministries and Rashid Hotel killing
101 and wounding 565 PM Maliki
blamed Baathists and Syria for Baghdad bombings even though it was ISI
(Musings
On Iraq Baghdad Can’t Get Its Story Straight On Aug 18 Bombings)
2015 IS second in command Abu Muslim al-Turkmani killed by
US drone strike in Mosul
2017 Kirkuk Gov Karim rejected court order to remove
Kurdish flag from government buildings in province View the Iraq History Timelines
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