1909 Riots in Mosul killed Sheikh Said Sufi leader in Sulaymaniya Led his followers to
revolt cutting off trade in northern Mosul province
1921 Govt issued order to form Iraqi General Staff Nuri al-Said became Chief of Staff 1st unit of
Iraqi army formed Recruited 250 former Ottoman officers and sent them for British training
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1942 Court sentenced fmr PM Gaylani and 3 Golden Square colonels to death in absentia
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1948 Baghdad Law College students marched against talks over new Anglo-Iraq Treaty Broken up by police
School shut down
1949 Student strikes started at College of Medicine Pharmaceutical College Law College in Baghdad
against govt while protests started in Hillah Najaf Basra Kirkuk Sulaymaniya Communists played leading role
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
1949 Regent Abd al-Ilah named Nuri al-Said to become PM for 5th time Told parliament his main job was
dealing with Communists Went after National Democratic Party as well
(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM Maliki)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 on Said govt)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1960 Gen Qasim refused to recognize Communists as a political party again
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1960 United Democratic Party of Kurdistan recognized as a political party by Qasim govt Had to
change name to Kurdistan Democratic Party Made up of urban Kurdish intellectuals
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1965 Pres Arif ended martial law that had been in effect since 1958 coup
1981 Largest tank battle since 1973 Arab-Israeli war started during Op Hoveyzeh Iraq and
Iran lost total of 3 tank battalions
1981 Iran recaptured Geilan Zarb in center near Diyala Iran lost total of 400 dead 450 Iraqis captured
Iran didn’t have troops to hold town so retreated to hills outside
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iraq started operation to try to retake Majnoon Island from Iranians
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Saddam called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected by Iran
(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 review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1990 Jabouri tribe attempted to assassinate Saddam during military parade
1993 US Russia France England agreed to enforce UN Resolution 688 that condemned Iraq’s
repression of its population
2003 Saddam said he was ready for war Accused UN inspectors of being spies
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
2003 IAEA asked State Dept for info about Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2003 IAEA head El Baradei no evidence of any suspicious Iraq nuclear activities
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Bush met with cabinet and said needed strong case vs Iraq for war
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
2003 Report 100 US Special Forces and 50 CIA officers had been sent into Iraq end of 2002 along
with Australian Jordanian British commandos to find targets for invasion
2004 2 Frenchmen shot and killed in Fallujah after car broke down
2010 Accountability and Justice Comm banned 511 candidates from 14 lists from election for Baathist ties
Iraqiya had most with 72 Was part of move by Shiite parties to make Baathists part of election
(Musings On Iraq Accountability And Justice Commission Attempts To Interfere In 2010 Elections)
(Musings On Iraq Return Of Sectarian Politics To Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Chilcot Comm Chaplin UK Amb to Iraq 04-05 Said Allawi govt completely dysfunctional
Ministries didn’t work
2015 4 bodies found in Albu Bahani, Babil believed to have been kidnapped and executed by Hashd
2020 Retired PM Abdul Mahdi said a legal memo was being drawn up to have US forces
leave Iraq Told US Amb to Iraq that 2 countries had to work together on withdrawal
(Musings On Iraq Iraq and US Struggling With American Military Withdrawal)
2020 Pres Salah received copy of US sanctions that would be imposed upon Iraq if US
forces expelled from country
2020 US Marines told Iraq planning to withdraw from Iraq following request from parliament
Def Sec Esper than said US had no plans to leave Iraq
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